Add time selection

Question

Add time selection

System32ita opened this issue 8 months ago · comments

I'd like an option to select the piece of video to download (ex. download from minute 1:22 to 5:30). It would save me A LOT of time.
Thanks

Stefan Lobbenmeier · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 06 2023 00:09:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like there is support for this from yr-dlp:

--download-sections REGEX       Download only chapters that match the
                                regular expression. A "*" prefix denotes
                                time-range instead of chapter. Negative
                                timestamps are calculated from the end.
                                "*from-url" can be used to download between
                                the "start_time" and "end_time" extracted
                                from the URL. Needs ffmpeg. This option can
                                be used multiple times to download multiple
                                sections, e.g. --download-sections
                                "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"

but not sure how I would go about having the user select the time interval. Surely this is a setting per video. Maybe some „expert options“ per video?

System32ita · Answer 2 · Wed Dec 06 2023 00:45:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like there is support for this from yr-dlp:

--download-sections REGEX       Download only chapters that match the
                                regular expression. A "*" prefix denotes
                                time-range instead of chapter. Negative
                                timestamps are calculated from the end.
                                "*from-url" can be used to download between
                                the "start_time" and "end_time" extracted
                                from the URL. Needs ffmpeg. This option can
                                be used multiple times to download multiple
                                sections, e.g. --download-sections
                                "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"

but not sure how I would go about having the user select the time interval. Surely this is a setting per video. Maybe some „expert options“ per video?

Well, I'm not really a programmer so I don't think I can help you, but I imagined something like this:

Stefan Lobbenmeier · Answer 3 · Wed Dec 06 2023 05:40:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nice I appreciate the mockup. For me that solution would be too noisy, but I would rather put an edit button next to the duration, that opens a popup where you can define the start and end time. Maybe also select sponsorblock there as well, or select chapters (but start with timestamps)

System32ita · Answer 4 · Wed Dec 06 2023 22:47:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

An edit button would be perfect. Mind that (in my opinion obviously) a feature like that is really important. A lot of times I have to download videos that may be 40-50 minutes long just to have a couple of seconds long clip. If I could just select the portion of video to download it would save me a lot of time

helpforreal · Answer 5 · Sun Dec 10 2023 06:03:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello i have zero code knowledge too, but an edit button next to the duration would be perfect, as i use open video downloader to download small clips of hours-long livestreams, it would also save me a huge amount of time