[grc] YouTube to mp4 - what is a safe converter?

[Brian Shiratsuki]

i have used youtube-dl, which ran into trouble with the RIAA last month:

<https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/>

it works from the command line, and may not be the easiest to bring
up; so it may not be friendly enough for all:

<http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/>

in the past, it's yielded sound encoded with opus rather than aac or
m4a. testing today it got h.264 / aac. the brew package manager (for
mac users) found several other tools, including

<https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3-converter/>
<https://www.macxdvd.com/free-youtube-video-downloader-mac/>

neither of which i've tried.

brian

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:01 PM Frieda Werden via grc
<grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> I used to use a YouTube to mp3 online converter years ago, but eventually
> it got corrupted with malware.  Wondering if anyone can recommend a safe
> way to get an mp4 copy.  I have permission to use the audio, but would
> prefer not to have to re-record in analogue in real time when my new
> version of Audacity is capable of opening mp4s.