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@liquidcryptid liquidcryptid released this 25 Aug 21:23
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v1.3.3
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YTLiveRecorder 1.3.3

Automatic YouTube livestream recorder (yt-dlp + ffmpeg).

Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Which file do I download?

Your computer Download this
Windows YTLiveRecorder-Windows-Setup.exe
Linux YTLiveRecorder-Linux.AppImage

Other files on this page (latest.yml, latest-linux.yml, *.blockmap, checksums) are for automatic updates — you can ignore them for a first install.

Usage

Windows

  1. Download YTLiveRecorder-Windows-Setup.exe and run it.
  2. If Windows protected your PC (SmartScreen): More info → Run anyway.
  3. Allow admin install when asked.
  4. Open YTLiveRecorder.
  5. Browse → pick a folder for finished recordings.
  6. Add channel — handle only (e.g. liquid_cryptid; @ optional).
  7. Start Monitoring. When a channel is live, recording starts.
  8. While Recording, click Stop next to that channel to save the current segment (monitoring continues; a new segment starts if the stream is still live).
  9. Stop Monitoring when done watching entirely — the app saves any active files as normal .mp4 under your folder.

Updates later: green badge next to the title, or Help → Check for Updates…

Linux (AppImage)

chmod +x YTLiveRecorder-Linux.AppImage
./YTLiveRecorder-Linux.AppImage

Same steps as Windows inside the app. AppImage supports in-app updates.

Patch notes (1.3.3)

Bug fixes

  • LIVE size and speed after per-channel Stop — Stop restarts from the live edge (--no-live-from-start). The 1s size/speed ticker only sampled --live-from-start jobs, so the LIVE row came back with no KiB/s. The ticker now samples every active recording; live-edge segments are LIVE from the first byte and use disk size/rate (HLS/ffmpeg rarely fills yt-dlp progress.speed).
  • Stop leaves other people’s yt-dlp alone — never taskkill /IM / pkill -x. Stop kills the spawned PID tree, then only yt-dlp/ffmpeg/ffprobe whose command line includes this app’s YTLiveRecorderTemp scratch and that segment’s rec-… folder. PyInstaller can exit the wrapper while a child keeps writing; that leftover is now stopped so remux is not EBUSY. A yt-dlp you started yourself is not matched.
  • Linux Stop leftover kill matches Windows — the bundled yt-dlp is also PyInstaller: SIGKILL of the wrapper left the child running (reparented to init). Stop/resume snapshot-kill that tree (Linux /T) and session-sweep leftovers. Distro python3 …/yt-dlp is matched too; unrelated yt-dlp is not.

Full history: see CHANGELOG.md in the project repository.

Notes

  • 64-bit only (no macOS build)
  • First-time Windows installs may need SmartScreen “Run anyway”
  • Release version 1.3.3 (filenames do not include the version number)
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