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strayer / youtube-dl-dash.bash
Last active March 24, 2021 18:00
youtube-dl wrapper script to download DASH Video and Audio and combine it with ffmpeg with automatic best format detection and fallback to default youtube-dl behaviour for videos without DASH
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
YOUTUBE_FORMATS=$(youtube-dl -F "$1")
if [[ "$YOUTUBE_FORMATS" == *"(DASH Video)"* ]]; then
VIDEO_NAME=$(youtube-dl --get-filename "$1")
VIDEO_NAME_TMP="$VIDEO_NAME.tmp"
echo "Filename: $VIDEO_NAME"