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Can someone explain why this is better than yt-dlp

That's an interesting question. They only depend on a single library, but I wonder how much code is really their own. I found it curious, for example, that there is a dedicated mp4 joiner (I mean, if you already have ffmpeg, there is probably no way you can do it better yourself).

https://github.com/soimort/you-get/blob/develop/src/you_get/...

That is interesting, huh, yeah they list ffmpeg as a dependency so I wonder what that didn’t cover for them.

Though there are some cases where using pure ffmpeg is just to difficult or impossible. Recently i had such a case where I wanted to merge multiple video files from my GoPro (they come out in 4GB parts if the video is longer than that), but while keeping / correctly merging all metadata such as date / accelerometer / gps / any custom binary streams. Ended up using this and worked great https://github.com/gyroflow/mp4-merge

How did you infer better than yt-dlp? I think the more the better when it comes to this space as google fights back.

But some information what the differences to ytdlp are and what the reasons for starting an entirely new project were, would still be helpful.

(Also, a multitude of tools isn't really all that helpful if they all stop working in the same instant because they all relied on the same APIs etc)

> starting an entirely new project were

The project was started in 2012, long before yt-dlp (but not before youtube-dl)

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