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How to set youtube-dl to not download more than 1mb of file size #11557

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sant527 opened this issue Dec 30, 2016 · 2 comments
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How to set youtube-dl to not download more than 1mb of file size #11557

sant527 opened this issue Dec 30, 2016 · 2 comments

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@sant527 sant527 commented Dec 30, 2016

How to tell youtube-dl to stop after it reaches a file size of 1mb
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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Dec 30, 2016

Currently there's no direct support in youtube-dl. A workaround can be:

youtube-dl -v URL -o - | head -c 1000000 > output.mp4

What is your use case? Just curious.
@dstftw dstftw closed this Jan 3, 2017
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@sant527 sant527 commented Jan 4, 2017

Can i make use of %{title} etc in the output.mp4
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