[Question] I have a question about youtube-dl

[Niggolo]

Im using my custom gui for send comands to youtube-dl and im using a method for multiple download (Select 20 links and auto download it 1 by 1).

So i would like to know if is possible to make youtube-dl start in background or aleast not going foreground at the current app or anything else im using in that moment because the console keep popup every time a new download comand is sent to it

thank you!

[dstftw]

This has nothing to do with youtube-dl and depends on how you execute external process or your UI framework does. Check it's doc.

[Niggolo]

It is nothing complex, i just send the command to the cmd with the gui, im not using any framework.

commandToExecute = "cmd.exe /c start "+ YOUTUBEDLDIRECTORY + ecttt....

I will try to find something related to windows console then, thank you !

[dstftw]

Do you even aware what does your command mean? You're running start.exe process via cmd.exe that literally:

C:\Dev\youtube-dl\master>start /?
Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

and runs youtube-dl.exe in that window.
What you should do is run youtube-dl.exe directly.

[Niggolo]

My friend helped me and i just learned a very very basic java language :P but yeah i never noticed this and i will try it directly

[Niggolo]

i just solved addeding /min after /start:

commandToExecute = "cmd.exe /c start /min "+ YOUTUBEDLDIRECTORY + ecttt....

Also i cant run youtube-dl.exe directly i get some weird error probabily because the gui is scripted to work with this method, anyway thank you !