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youtube-dl.exe only opens a comand promt for a second #30871
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You need to pass in the video URL as an argument. |
Open a terminal, aka command prompt, window. Then run the command from the prompt. Don't just double-click on the yt-dl program icon like Notepad. |
@Hotlynx16 that's because you're in the wrong folder, you should either It would help if you didn't run the command prompt as admin because then it would start you in your home folder, which is probably closer to where the |
Ok, I did have it in my download folder and tried moving it to my C: drive not in a folder, how about in my user folder?? |
@Hotlynx16 if you open a non-admin command prompt then move the |
Thanks, It seems to be working now!! |
Well I don't know now, it is taking 8 hrs to download a 1.6 gb file, is that normal? I have 200Mbps download! |
It is expected, unless you install the latest development version (git master). YT throttles the download speed unless we respond to a challenge in the media link parameters. Short solution:
Instead of |
Since much of this isn't about When used skillfully, a CLI is much more powerful than a GUI (scripting & automation for the win). Separately (meta, @ contributors); perhaps a pointer to such a guide needs to be included in the readme, since this seems to be a common stumbling block for unfamiliar newbies (I recall several duplicate tickets). I've been thinking of overhauling the documentation (e.g. separating the manual from the readme (while leaving a pointer, of course), so I may submit a PR when I have the time to tackle it properly. |
@Lee-Carre I could probably make a basic GUI for less experienced users using something like tkinter. |
Plenty of youtube-dl GUIs around already. |
OP's problem was solved. |
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WRITE QUESTION HERE Sorry I am a nube at this but when I double click on youtube-dl.exe it opens up a command prompt for just a second and then goes away. Running windows 10 latest version. Tried as an administrator,no go. What could I be doing wrong? I installed the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (x86) also, no help. I tried running it in compatability mode and ran it as windows 8 and no change.
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