youtube-dl – Marc Chiroiu

Cutting and converting a (Youtube) video to use as background banner

Sometimes I need to get a specific part of a youtube video to use as a video background on a website. It should autoplay and run in most browsers if possible. After trying different approaches I settled for youtube-dl and ffmpg because it takes only a couple of seconds and the video works in all […]

Fixing “no matches found: bestaudio[ext=m4a]” on MacOS

MacOS, Snippets / May 5, 2020

I was playing around with youtube-dl the other day and trying to find the best way to import music into Apple Music without the need of transcoding it and always got the “zsh: no matches found: bestaudio[ext=m4a]” error. Youtube-dl will automatically download the best audio version (which usually is .ogg) but you’d have to transcode it and

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