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File renaming is not working in media-downloader, at least when using yt-dlp, if there are spaces in the file name.

For ex.
Under youtube-dl, this has been working perfectly

-o '/home/username/Downloads/Video/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'

with media-download, using yt-dlp, I am forced to use this without any spaces

--newline --ignore-config --no-playlist -o %(uploader)s/%(uploader)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s

Hey
I am getting these errors.
https://prnt.sc/19x130j

Before Update -

After Update -

Though download and processing both have completed the app shows it is processing.

I've downloaded a playlist before changing the naming format, so the videos couldn't be sorted in any way. I've deleted the files, pasted the playlist link again and after hitting Get List, it only said Downloading video info 2 of 173 and stop, all the buttons active again, but didn't do anything else.

I've just cleared the subscriptions_archive_file.txt and it works again. Also the file is kinda hidden, and it's not really obvious what it does from it's name, or if it's used since it's an archive.

Please make a button to clear that file from the UI.

Thanks a bunch for this great tool

Engine causing issue - yt-dlp-aria2c

While downloading videos when I press "cancel" button the downloads seems to be paused but it doesn't. Actually aria2c continues to download the videos in the background even after I have cancelled/paused the download.

Please resolve this issue.

For the first tab, the title There's a misspelling in the title. 'Downloder' should be Downloader.

Hi and thanks for all your great work! May I ask if it's possible to have a setting to 'choose to open at previously used tab'? I always use the Batch tab, and now media-downloader opens at the Basic tab.

When the list is reaching over 1000 entries, the application closes without notice.

I believe that basic downloader (other tabs too where applicable) should have some more user friendly UI:

1. user is asked for video url.
2. app detects available formats and prepares nice and clickable list of modes (including 'best', 'bestvideo' etc)
3. video is being downloaded

Windows 7 x64 sp1, with all updates, without any patches and decorations,
the standard zoom level is 100%,
the most standard screen is FullHD.

Due to the fact that the interface elements overlap each other, the program looks bad. For example, you have a highlight of the input fields at focus. Now let's see how it looks on your standard and first dark theme:


As you can see, the backlight is stupidly overlapped by neighboring fields and is visible only on one or two sides.
And this is just one example, there are still a lot of problems due to this short arrangement of elements. Especially on dark themes.

The first request: Please separate the fields and buttons away from each other, as is done in all standard interfaces.

Now about the design themes:
I have only the standard and first dark themes working. The rest look really bad. But that's not the point. I prefer to use dark themes, but your first dark theme cannot be used because it is high contrast.

The second request: Please duplicate the first dark theme by changing the dark colors in the duplicate to more gray, and the text color, for example, to 'silver'. And let this become the fifth topic, since perhaps someone needs a high-contrast one, too, for example, those who have bad eyesight.

Hi, great work with media-downloader, small footprint and "straight to the point/downloads", i tried to download some audio from youtube and selected best audio option and i ended up with an mp3 file, as far as i know youtube doesnt use mp3 so im guessing the aac or opus original audio is being converted to mp3, since its being converted it will loose quality, therefore mp3 is no longer the best audio...any chance of enabling "original audio" either aac or opus in the GUI?

Thanks

Hello, I've just moved to MX xfce. Media-downloader isn't in the deb-based repos; I understand there's a flatpak, but I don't use those. Found a newer (2.1.1) and older (1.9.0-1) deb file. The former can't run due to libc6 dependency. The latter needed aria2 installing, which is in the repo, but I'm having various problems with downloads. On previous distro, the Default setting would pick up whichever e.g. 480 format would download just by pressing Default, which was awesome ... I realise that my choice to move from Bookworm back to Bullseye-based has thrown a spanner into the works a bit, but I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Hello, I found this video open source extension which has a preset to send links automatically to youtube dl download manager , maybe this extension can be associated with Media-Downloader for more simplicity for beginners:

https://github.com/rowrawer/stream-detector/

I also found this open source extension to send download links directly to the download manager:

https://github.com/FreeDownloadManagerTeam/fdm-addons-docs

Hello, sometime i watch sone foreign tv shows, i use, psiphon....or may be proton vpn, or SoftEther VPN Gate Client Plugin....does Media-downloader support downloading through proxy and vpn ?

Hello, Media_Download is amazing and wonderful ! Thank you very much !
Please it will be great if there an option preset to choose by default to download the worst audio quality for a faster download, and possiblity to choosing the native audio quality "opus" or "m4a" without conversion to mp3, thank you very much !

Hello, some video ar too big, and we want to watch the beginning of the video which has already been downloaded, it will be great to add this option for more simplicity and if this option is selected, Media-Downloader should use only one thread ti download the beginning of the video and for smoother viewing....

Hi, with media-downloader 2.0.0, no HDR versions of selected video can be parsed and downloaded. But I am sure that HDR version is available on the ytb website. Is there anything need to be configured to make it work? SDR versions are OK to download.

yt-dlp is an actively maintained fork of youtube-dl with additional features and more video platforms. It has the same dependencies as youtube-dl plus aria2, python3-mutagen and python3-pycryptodom. Has similar command line syntax with some changes.

I had a tiny issue with the program. It wanted to download videos to a path in "Владимир\Desktop" folder or something and it could not download videos (hang forever). Once I changed the path to C:\youtube it started working smoothly. I wonder if russian directory name was the problem.
It also would be nice if youtube-dl would be downloaded automatically (or with a single button click) from github .
Thanks for the project!

First, I would like to thank the developer, @mhogomchungu, for this excellent project- I have tested and used many front-ends for youtube-dl and yt-dlp but Media Downloader (I discovered it about a couple of hours ago) is quickly becoming my favourite one- many engines supported, native portable version (fully and truly portable), clean, intuitive GUI plus themes, moderate memory usage, cross platform. I did some tests and everything worked fine, many thanks for the good work!

I would suggest a tiny enhancement:

• program icon - media-downloader.ico to be embedded into the executable- media-downloader.exe

so that the users would not need to manually edit the program short-cut on desktop (pointing to media-downloader.ico file).

I suppose this would be very easy to be imolemented.

It will be great if there is option "exit Media-Downloader" after all downloads finsih, and "hibernate" and "shutdown" option after all download complete because some file are too big and it takes a lot of time to finish downloads ot files which weighs many gigabyte.....

In the previous version I was using (1.5? I think) when using Get List, the note column would show the separate audio and video bitrates. This was really helpful for various reasons. Obviously to choose your preferred version but I also found it vital in getting vidoes from NHK due to some file versions will occasionally be corrupt and it was possible to immediately identify that by looking at the bitrates. But after upgrading to version 2.2, it is no longer showing the individual audio and video bitrates in Get List. Can you please return this functionality? Thank you!!!

Media Downloader Version: 2.2.1
OS: Windows 11 x64
Package: Portable

ffprobe appears to be missing from the bundled version of ffmpeg. ffprobe not found errors are thrown in the log when the post processing task runs. If ffprobe will not be included in the bundled version of ffmpeg, what is the supported way to update/stage a new version of ffmpeg that includes ffprobe, as well as what is the latest supported version for use with Media Downloader/yt-dlp?

Hello, does Media-Downloader support downloading audio books and podcast ? and the p2p torrent download of audio books torrent like on this site ?

https://librivox.org/

https://www.digitalbook.io/

Helloi see instructions to build on linux, but is there a way to compile and build this on windows? I tried opening it up in Qt Creator but I get tons of compile errors. Any advice?

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Hello, Please I have an important suggestion, I finally discover the button "paste from clipboard" and it is wonderful magnificent !! thank you ! please it will be great to make the button "download" next to the "paste from clipboard" button for more speed, and also it will be amazing to merge and unify the "paste from clipboard" and "download" buttons into a single button with memorization of the "worstaudio" preset, so we can download audio or video just by clicking on a one and only unified button and we no longer need anymore to click on 2 distant buttons "paste from clip board" and "Download"!

I would also like to share this magnificent program with my friends and my family but many do not understand computers, it will be easier for them if the amazing Media-Downloader add the "worstaudio" and "worstvideo" option because it is necessary for those who have a weak internet connection....

Sorry, but i didn't understand this option : " Add an option to auto save not downloaded media on exit."

if we cancel a download, Media-Downloader keeps the downloaded part of the canceled file?

Hello, sometimes downloading slows down internet browsing, it would be great to add an option to pause donwload, or to limit the download speed !

Hello, sometimes i download too big file using yt dlp and not aria2, so it takes a lot of time to download, and i go to surf in another websites and after some time, I find another videoS to download but i can't anymore add them to Media-Downloader because it is already downloading another video and the add button are greyed out, so it will be amazingly and useful to allow Media-Downloader to have multiple instances so we will be able to add new videos to Download-Manager, thanks a lot !

Hello, it will be great if there is these options : prompt when finishing warning to signal the end of downloads, show notfication when fiish dowloading, show non resumable donwloading file, show warning when disabling ssl verification, auto rename files if same name exists in dowload folder, network option with proxy prefix : htttps, socks4, socks5, websites authentification option user password, workarounds cookies file, custom user agent, ignore ssl certificate validation....

all these options are inspired by the "FireDM" download manager options, and it will be great and we are grateful if Media-Downlaoder gradually integrate them....

another question please, are you considering to changing the name of Media-Dowloader ?

UGET and other download managers feature a clipboard monitoring function that automatically adds downloadable media URLs to the queue. This would be a very useful feature in media-downloader.

Hello, i have multiple facebook videos to donwload, i use batch donwloader to add this link :
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=733475611144776

but it doesn't work, there is no download in batch donwloader, so I tried basic dowloader and it works, i can donwload the same video :

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=733475611144776

i go back to batch donwloader and I add this link of the same video by clicking on the three dots under the facebook video and clicking on "copy link", finally I was able to download this facebook video using this link;

https://fb.watch/cDPOh4B4zD/

and so, what is the difference between the two links? is it possible to add the classic facebook links to the batch donwloader please? because it's easier, in the address bar of chromium and chrome, there is a "copy link" box which allows me to quickly copy the dacebook links but I can't use them in batch downloader... ..

Hello,
Thank you for providing this wonderful tool for Windows users.
I have some error while using safaribooks plugin:

`[-] Logging into Safari Books Online...

[#] Unhandled Exception: 'next' (type: KeyError)

[!] Aborting...`

I tried to put username/password in json file at ...AppData\Roaming\media-downloader\engines.v1\safaribooks.js and also in config Engine default options > Safaribooks > --creed "[email protected]:password"

Is there any way to use it ? I hope to achieve book images download since the safaribook (https://github.com/lorenzodifuccia/safaribooks) don't download them (using linux on a raspberypi).

Many thanks for any insights.

Hi,

Flathub gives discoverability to your app. Please consider flatpaking it.

https://github.com/flathub/org.flatpak.qtdemo
https://github.com/flathub/info.smplayer.SMPlayer/blob/master/info.smplayer.SMPlayer.yml

Thanks.

Hi
I compiled it for OS2 and use qt5 v5.15.2 and gcc 9.2.0
But when running the program i see in log:

[media-downloader] *****************************************************
[media-downloader] To Disable These Checks, Do The Following:-
[media-downloader] 1. Go To "Configure" Tab.
[media-downloader] 2. Go To "General Options" Sub Tab.
[media-downloader] 3. Uncheck "Show Version Info When Starting".
[media-downloader] *****************************************************
[media-downloader] Failed to find executable "wget"
[media-downloader] Error, executable to backend "wget" could not be found
[media-downloader] Failed to find executable "ffmpeg"
[media-downloader] Error, executable to backend "ffmpeg" could not be found
[media-downloader] Failed to find executable "aria2c"
[media-downloader] Error, executable to backend "aria2c" could not be found
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of yt-dlp
[media-downloader] Found version: 2022.03.08.1
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of youtube-dl
[media-downloader] Found version: 2021.12.17
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of yt-dlp-ffmpeg
[media-downloader] Found version: 2022.03.08.1

Any idea?

Whenever I Input credentials in the json file it just decides not not to download the file from the repo some help would be great, whenever I add credentials doesn't install plugin

Hello, I set scale factor to the value "3", and when I wanted to restore the default value "1", I could not access the scale factor parameter because the window was too large and the parameter inaccessible, so I I had to uninstall the program and search in the hidden folders of windows appdata ...... to delete and reset Media-Dowloader, it will be good if this process becomes easier or the window becomes scrollable, or have the "reset" button " at the very top of the main window....

How to add url using External Application Button Firefox addon?

What arguments I need to use to add url automatically on the Batch Downloader section.

I am a Chinese user, you may not understand these two gadgets. But it is more practical for Chinese users. I hope to support him.

you-get address
https://github.com/soimort/you-get
lux address
https://github.com/iawia002/lux

The downloader always downloads slowly. I expect to be able to download it multi-threaded, so that it can be downloaded quickly.

下载测试地址：
https://v3.cdtlas.com/20220302/N6HEAmYv/1100kb/hls/index.m3u8

https://new.iskcd.com/20220301/jydgKeds/1100kb/hls/playlist_up.m3u8

https://sluiceyf.titan.mgtv.com/c1/2019/02/11_0/3830FC669867895CEA39E6D51B6B92F2_20190211_1_1_504_mp4/47217EBC5D726FE6A6FCB8D8F1B49D9B.m3u8?arange=0&pm=rF7nPkc3esvTD2q3zvrFGM2DlxDl5JF2FCbXu_HUWSpJST6GncsAQUZIyCwYzW92X4epGJqD52ozl5dL5gsBRl2ueZbvp8zJPiukuMr45NOqpkIAtZjtR1eV7CVa36UOQVa6BrgEXARcBI5XlGnaStY~HwBG8LmpZJFFTVc0~ImRICUFl1IidgOlwbLikoItcDZU_fRijIaaLWtpKxaz1_ZK3cqsZYjOEG0ff8_Vgwo4gZEw4kqMh8PFX4XqgRaRC3hto_qd_D3UDvB4pPcWRzsHb7ryHqjMTFr7SduMcrneo9QLCPr2rfhw_0jg7rsjvxtAeamDmkmT6TQm8ZC~c56xCei4N7ihxcjNICVgzOcRwJ5BEBf3AlebgiDAYqtasA2wEXQe_jtdoNql5I1jJFnGbMk-&drmFlag=0&isTrial=0&vcdn=0&scid=25117&ruid=bbcd9ebee7ff4e35&sh=1

Hello, is there a way that Media-downloader can fetch and download hndreds of these books of these online huge libraries ? it is useful if we would like to download all the books of the same author in one click.

https://www.pdfdrive.com/

and

https://fr.z-lib.org/

Add support for youtube-dl forks like yt-dlp, animelover1984/youtube-dl, youtube-dlc etc.

Preferably, instead of adding each fork individually, give the user the option to use a binary of their choice. All these forks are compatible with youtube-dl's switches and config files - so only the executable files need to be changed

hello, just seeing if im brain farting on something as when i run Media Downloader it errors when trying to download Youtube-DL, exact message it says is

[media-downloader] Running in portable mode
[media-downloader] Download path: C:/Users/Slider/Desktop/ytd
[media-downloader] Start Downloading youtube-dl ... ...
[media-downloader] Download Failed: TLS initialization failed
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of ffmpeg
[media-downloader] Found version: 4.3.2-2021-02-27-full_build-www.gyan.dev

I tried the non portable version too and have same issue, i see no other issues posted regarding this so i feel like im just simply doing something wrong. Any help be appreciated thank you.

Is it possible to change the default filename for downloaded videos?

Instead of:
some youtube video 2021-[youtube ID]

I'd like:
some youtube video 2021

There's probably a ytdl command for this but I'm not sure how to make it work

Some sites needs authentication for downloading like vk.com . is it possible to integrate a feature like i will sign in for vk.com for one time inside the app and it will work then anytime i download from vk.com. it will be very helpful feature specially for me.

Thanks

I found this commentary in videohelp website, what do you think ? qt is better than java ?

"A straight-to-the-point GUI, without bells and whistles.
Built upon Qt 5, therefore it works under Windows 7.
But it would be better if the GUI was written in Java, because the Qt framework turns any application into bloatware."

https://www.videohelp.com/software/media-downloader/reviews

Hey there,

Would it be possible to add to the README how to install this
project quickly via the commandline?

Other projects have e. g. "curl | sh" or something like that.

It would be nice if we could have this for the project here
too. (Here we can assume that the user has a sane compile
chain already, as newbies will rarely use a compile-based
variant.)

This suggestion is made mostly for simplicity, to let people
try the project faster.

To show our appreciation and thanks for the awesome Media-Downloader, it will be great idea ti add button which allows to sponsor the project via paypal for example, or add discrete non intrusive ads, and for people who don't want to see ads , add an option to disable ads, thank you!

maybe it's also good to change the name of the software so that it is more easily recognizable and referenced by google in the search results