


Head over to the download page and choose the windows builds from the section marked “Get the packages” (the top link downloads the source code not the build) In order to detect bit-rate in youtube-dl you’ll need FFmpeg and FFprobe. However there are a few extra tools you may want to install.įFmpeg is a powerful audio and video converter (and basic editor). You may want to now download every video known to mankind. If successful you would have downloaded “ Me at the zoo” into a local file available under the same spot you dropped youtube-dl.exe off at. To test youtube-dl type the following youtube-dl

Now open up a cmd window by pressing Window Key + R. This should be the folder you stick youtube-dl.exe. C:\Users\UsernameĪs can be confirmed by opening up cmd.exe By default the command prompts path is set to your user folder e.g. RTMPDump can download media from Flash sites (without the need for Flash!)ĭownload the Windows build, which should be on the second paragraph titled “windows exe”. FFmpeg can convert anything and can even do basic editing. What is the ultimate multimedia download and conversion toolkit? The command line! before you groan youtube-dl is quite possibly the greatest Multimedia downloader, it doesn’t have a UI but it is very powerful.
