[FFmpeg-user] Technical Problem

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On 2024-11-12 19:35, amazonprincessdiana at gmail.com wrote:
>
> I usually use 4K Video Downloader to download videos from YouTube channels I
> subscribe to.  A couple of the channels I keep an eye on have a really bad
> practice of giving their videos really bad names that are extremely long and
> contain really stupid characters in them.  The crazy naming they give the
> videos has been causing routine problems with 4K not completing the final
> step of the downloading process which is compiling the videos leaving them
> as failed downloads that are in the format of .part files.  I have tried use
> ffmpeg to do that final merging and have even worked with ChatGPT to have it
> create a batch file that I can keep in each channel's folder to run to do
> the process and it keeps failing to convert the videos.  I spent several
> hours trying to get ChatGPT to correct the problem but nothing is working.
>
> I use ChatGPT because I never learned any sort of scripting or command line
> usage over the 25+ years I have been in IT because I am too used to GUI and
> Windows.  I am on a 1 year old self built water cooled desktop PC with
> excellent hardware and software and I am on Windows 11 Pro.
>
> Do you have any suggestions or can you improve ffmpeg so that it reliably
> works even with files with long names with crazy characters?  I am willing
> to share any information you need in the way of error messages and even some
> sample files.  I have zero connection to the creators so I cannot tell them
> to "get a brain" and name their videos with better names.

I've not tried to download 4k videos with it, but for downloading
YouTube I use YouTube Download Plus:

     https://github.com/yt-dlp