[FFmpeg-user] Technical Problem

[Alisa]

It’s not that I use the 4K program with the ffmpeg it is that I use the 4K as my program of choice but have been having problems with 4K because of those file name issues and that is when I noticed that when the downloads fail, they fail because they do not assemble and stay as the dot part files, which is why I tried to use ffmpeg to complete the final part of the process, which is combining the part files together to make the.MP4 video file. I do not use ffmpeg as my downloader of choice only when the 4K program fails.

> On Nov 12, 2024, at 3:17 PM, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News <news at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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