[heybrendan]

Thanks for this guidance. In times like these, I find sunlight is always the best disinfectant.

The yt-dlp application functions better alongside ffmpeg, so I recommend installing that too. If on Linux, whatever is available via one's package manager /should/ do the trick.

Note, the project does make mention there are issues [1] with "standard ffmpeg", and is therefore minting custom builds [2][3] of ffmpeg, with additional patches applied.

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#dependencies

[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#ffmpeg-static-auto-b...

[3] https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#patches-applied