A one line combination of YouTube-dl and ffmpeg can do this btw (without downloading the whole video)
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#13Just works, no complaints from me
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#14I have extracted frames with vlc before before. They always look like shit. Like with a lower resolution. Why? Like if you freeze a youtube video the pic looks clean.
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#15A one line combination of YouTube-dl and ffmpeg can do this btw (without downloading the whole video)
This would be a good place to share that one line.
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#16A one line combination of YouTube-dl and ffmpeg can do this btw (without downloading the whole video)
I was gonna say that realistically your one liner is gonna need to be ran probably 20, 30 times before you’re able to pick the exact frame that you want.
But with a little bit extra work you could make that one liner into a script that will extract a range of frames surrounding the chosen timestamp.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
VLC has the option to “Take Snapshot” and it can play online media. This is unless I'm missing something very obvious!
In the description it says app is for mobile devices
VLC runs on mobile devices: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
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#19A one line combination of YouTube-dl and ffmpeg can do this btw (without downloading the whole video)
This would be a good place to share that one line.
yt-dlp ${youtube_video_url} --get-url
ffmpeg -ss ${seconds} -i "${first_url_from_yt-dlp}" -t 1 -r 4/1 -q:v 2 -vf scale="0:-1" ${target}
-r 4/1: 4 frames per second
Again this app is for mobile devices which lack yt-dlp+ffmpeg
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#20I have extracted frames with vlc before before. They always look like shit. Like with a lower resolution. Why? Like if you freeze a youtube video the pic looks clean.
I think that's just VLC being VLC, or maybe VLC's youtube support doesn't get the high quality streams. When I play youtube videos with mpv (which uses yt-dlp), 's' to snapshot produces clean images.