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minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-22 months agoIf you’ve ever used yt-dl, you’ll know that YT vids are all split into multiple files. Presumably, this is where the ads get injected.
minus-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, they’re not split. Each one of those results you get from yt-dlp is a different version of the same video. I.e. different resolutions, different codecs. Some of them are the audio, some of them are the video, but they’re not split.
minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoThey are also that. But when you watch YouTube-dl download a video, it downloads several parts, then ffmpeg recombines them into a single output file.
If you’ve ever used yt-dl, you’ll know that YT vids are all split into multiple files. Presumably, this is where the ads get injected.
No, they’re not split. Each one of those results you get from yt-dlp is a different version of the same video. I.e. different resolutions, different codecs. Some of them are the audio, some of them are the video, but they’re not split.
They are also that. But when you watch YouTube-dl download a video, it downloads several parts, then ffmpeg recombines them into a single output file.