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[Feature Request]: More Download preference options #5030

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BGMSMX opened this issue Apr 27, 2024 · 2 comments
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[Feature Request]: More Download preference options #5030

BGMSMX opened this issue Apr 27, 2024 · 2 comments

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@BGMSMX
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BGMSMX commented Apr 27, 2024

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  • I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the feature request I want to file, without success.
  • I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the feature request I want to file, without success.
  • This issue contains only one feature request.

Problem Description

When I want to download a video from your site, and click download, your don't have an option of of downloading the video with both audio and video, instead, I have to download them separately, video only, or audio only, and this is quiet a long winded option.
Other video downloaders gives you more options, but with FreeTube, the download options and settings are useless.
I just want one option, click and download both video and audio at the same time.

Proposed Solution

My proposal is when you click the download icon in the FreeTube page, there should also be a download video and audio to click and download, instead of individual downloads.
This should also be included in the settings, as there isn't a suitable option there either.

Alternatives Considered

If my opinion isn't valid or seen as a fixable, then I will remove FreeTube app, and look for something that is to my liking.

Issue Labels

ease of use improvement, improvement to existing feature, new optional setting

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absidue commented Apr 27, 2024

FreeTube shows everything that YouTube offers, unfortunately they only offer 360p with both audio and video.

What other downloaders do is download an audio stream and a video stream and then call out to ffmpeg to combine them into a single file.

Due to the very complicated nature of trying to support something like that in FreeTube (the only cross platform way of doing it, would be dreadfully slow, it would take longer than the actual downloads), it's out of scope for FreeTube at the moment. If you want advanced downloading functionality like that, I recommend that you use a dedicated downloading tool like yt-dlp.

@absidue absidue closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Apr 27, 2024
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