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How to convert macOS config file to be used on Windows #16373

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TarekSalama opened this issue May 4, 2018 · 1 comment
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How to convert macOS config file to be used on Windows #16373

TarekSalama opened this issue May 4, 2018 · 1 comment

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@TarekSalama
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@TarekSalama TarekSalama commented May 4, 2018

I have been using youtube-dl on macOS with this configuration file with no problems however I tried replicating it to work Windows but I keep getting "ERROR: Batch file couldn't be read". I tried replacing the / with \ and putting all relevant Windows paths between double quotations but nothing worked.

Can someone tell me how I can convert this configuration file to work on Windows?
Thanks a lot

--no-overwrites --no-cache-dir --ignore-errors --add-metadata --batch-file /Users/tareksalama/Desktop/Youtube-dl/batchvideos.txt -o /Users/tareksalama/Desktop/Youtube-dl/videos/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s
-f '(bestvideo[ext=mp4]/bestvideo)+(bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestaudio)/best'

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@dstftw dstftw commented May 4, 2018

Absolute paths on Windows must start with drive letter, e.g. C:/.

@dstftw dstftw closed this May 4, 2018
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