Skip to content

Enhance Your Video Downloading Experience with youtube-dl: Advanced Techniques

Unlock the full potential of youtube-dl with advanced techniques. Explore methods to download specific segments of videos and parallel download playlists.

Download Video & extract only a specific Time of it

ffmpeg $(yt-dlp -g 'https://de.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph637366806d6eb' | sed 's/^/-ss 00:05 -i /') -t 01:00 -c copy out.mp4

Parallel downloading playlists

youtube-dl --get-id "$PLAYLIST_URL" | xargs -I '{}' -P 5 youtube-dl 'https://youtube.com/watch?v={}'