Video Download Tool
Dev tools
video downloader
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
7 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.36.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cropping is fast on the demo
From 1 comment
The cropping was a lot faster in that demo than I expected. Very cool!
pininja on HN
Objections
Demo server returned HTTP 500 errors
From 1 comment
I got HTTP 500 when trying to download anything using the demo site. Not sure if the server is overloaded, or a bug (would non-Latin characters in title affect anything?) The…
thrdbndndn on HN
Cloud processing is CPU and bandwidth heavy and costly
From 2 comments
I made this because I would download a lot of videos from Youtube to watch on my phone using VLC. Most of the videos I downloaded were from video game streams, and I wanted to…
foxbarrington on HNMost sites, like mine use youtube-dl which just gets the video source file. To crop it and process it at scale you are talking about thousands of dollars of servers to first…
godmode2019 on HN
Requests
Client-side processing in the browser
From 1 comment
Would be cool to see something client side using ffmpeg in browser, like https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm Found a previous post from someone using that lib…
harrisonjackson on HN
Subtitle extraction from videos
From 1 comment
As for something that I would rather have on a website instead of locally, extracting autogenerated/provided subtitles from YouTube videos, so you don't have to scrub through the…
nonbirithm on HN
A local install option that is easy to set up
From 1 comment
Thanks! It’s cloud because I assume that a lot of people who want to use it will run into issues installing all the dependencies (yt-dlp and ffmpeg), and there’s also the bonus…
foxbarrington on HN
Questions
Why it runs in the cloud rather than locally
From 1 comment
Pretty cool! I'm curious as to why this is offered as a cloud machine and not something that runs locally. Wouldn't the encoding performance on a free or cheap cloud instance be…
poopsmithe on HN
Whether the seek skips downloading the start of the video
From 2 comments
I also see that, that syntax should not just download a slice: -f is for the format and -g should be simulation (-g for --get-url : 'Simulate, quiet but print title'). Probably…
mdp2021 on HNIt looks kinda like that, but no. ‘youtube-dl -f best -g …’ returns a url, and ffmpeg seeks in the video stream and doesn’t download the whole thing.
montebicyclelo on HN
Alternatives named
youtube-dl and ffmpeg command line
From 1 comment
Pretty cool! I'm curious as to why this is offered as a cloud machine and not something that runs locally. Wouldn't the encoding performance on a free or cheap cloud instance be…
poopsmithe on HN
clipconverter.cc
From 1 comment
clipconverter.cc is the only one that worked with long videos for me
MitPitt on HN
kirp.io
From 1 comment
This reminds me of https://kirp.io/
gokaygurcan on HN