I see it all the time people wanting to know how to download videos to save, and these programs are the best by far... it just works, everywhere.

But not super easy to use because it comes from linux so I tried to make a simple guide.

Is it better to just link to the main yt-dlp site and have people figure out how to get it and use from their instructions? It would be great if the admins here or patriots.win could make an official guide for average joe on how to use this software!

It is true that the ffmpeg.exe is built from source by some rando who could put something bad in it, but it's linked from ffmpeg main site. They don't make binaries available directly because it's media codecs and they don't want to get patent sued.

I see it all the time people wanting to know how to download videos to save, and these programs are the best by far... it just works, everywhere.

But not super easy to use because it comes from linux so I tried to make a simple guide.

Is it better to just link to the main yt-dlp site and have people figure out how to get it and use from their instructions? It would be great if the admins here or patriots.win could make an official guide for average joe on how to use this software!

It is true that the ffmpeg.exe is built from source by some rando who could put something bad in it, but it's linked from their main site. They don't make binaries available directly because it's media codecs and they don't want to get patent sued.