# How to get a Fireplace Video from YouTube to TV Hi everyone I want to share with you a little solution to a problem that I had on Christmas Day. I was invited to celebrate Christmas in my father-in-law's house, however there is no fireplace in that house to create some Christmas atmosphere. So I thought I'd show a YouTube video like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmGsQkLb4yg) on television, however in this location Internet connection is not very stable and not so much fast so I got ready to download the YouTube video, put it on a USB stick and see it on television. I've done all the steps on my Mac, on GNU/Linux it's the same... on Windows I don't know and I don't even remember the last time I used it. All steps involved two simple programs and I used them from the command line: - [youtube-dl](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/): is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube - [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/): a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video ### List YouTube Video/Audio Options With youtube-dl you can list all the download options for a custom video by passing its url ``` youtube-dl --list-formats "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmGsQkLb4yg" ``` and you'll get ``` 249 webm audio only tiny 60k , opus @ 50k (48000Hz), 42.13MiB 250 webm audio only tiny 78k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 56.57MiB 140 m4a audio only tiny 137k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 111.29MiB 251 webm audio only tiny 151k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 118.74MiB 394 mp4 256x144 144p 99k , av01.0.00M.08, 30fps, video only, 55.79MiB 278 webm 256x144 144p 139k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 81.72MiB 160 mp4 256x144 144p 144k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 95.50MiB 395 mp4 426x240 240p 188k , av01.0.00M.08, 30fps, video only, 132.78MiB 242 webm 426x240 240p 270k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 190.22MiB 133 mp4 426x240 240p 278k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only, 210.37MiB 396 mp4 640x360 360p 331k , av01.0.01M.08, 30fps, video only, 254.16MiB 243 webm 640x360 360p 456k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 350.07MiB 397 mp4 854x480 480p 597k , av01.0.04M.08, 30fps, video only, 483.59MiB 134 mp4 640x360 360p 650k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 539.06MiB 244 webm 854x480 480p 789k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 640.21MiB 135 mp4 854x480 480p 1191k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 995.58MiB 398 mp4 1280x720 720p 1202k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 992.10MiB 247 webm 1280x720 720p 1540k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 1.26GiB 399 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 2150k , av01.0.08M.08, 30fps, video only, 1.75GiB 136 mp4 1280x720 720p 2321k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 1.90GiB 248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2702k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 2.22GiB 137 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 4074k , avc1.640028, 30fps, video only, 3.21GiB 400 mp4 2560x1440 1440p 6516k , av01.0.12M.08, 30fps, video only, 5.33GiB 271 webm 2560x1440 1440p 8877k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 7.38GiB 401 mp4 3840x2160 2160p 13207k , av01.0.12M.08, 30fps, video only, 10.71GiB 313 webm 3840x2160 2160p 17792k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 14.74GiB 43 webm 640x360 360p , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 736.41MiB 18 mp4 640x360 360p 738k , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 634.79MiB 22 mp4 1280x720 720p 3280k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (44100Hz) (best) ``` ### Download files In this case I want to download the video at FullHD resolution with the audio so I want rows 137 (mp4 video 1920x1080) and 140 (m4a audio). So It's simple as type ``` youtube-dl -f 137+140 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmGsQkLb4yg" ``` ### Merge files Now I renamed video file `fireplace.mp4` and the audio one `fireplace.m4a`, and merged them with ``` ffmpeg -i fireplace.mp4 -i fireplace.m4a -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4 ``` And last but not least I put the `output.mp4` video on a 4Gb USB stick to see it on television 🤓 Bye Alberto