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Linux => New to Ubuntu => Topic started by: mahesh on Sep 06, 2023, 03:29 AM

Title: FFMPEG/Youtube-dl Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Post by: mahesh on Sep 06, 2023, 03:29 AM
Hello and greetings all,
I have been using FFMPEG and Youtube-dl on Windows for a long time.
Recently I have migrated over to linux and I installed FFMPEG and Youtube-dl using the method., sudo apt install ffmpeg and sudo apt install youtube-dl

FFMPEG Appears to work fine with the exception that the grammar of the commands appears a bit more finicky.

However youtube-dl commands all seem to return the same sort of problem.
youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmZXCqqx6q0
[youtube] FmZXCqqx6q0: Downloading webpage
ERROR: FmZXCqqx6q0: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
I will also approach this from a troubleshooting avenue via youtube-dl but was hoping something would jump out to people if I did something wrong in the installation, or that maybe I have to configure something in Ubuntu.

Id appreciate any help or being pointed in a new direction.
Thanks!