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I'm using ffmpeg for taking screenshots from video. Is it possible to take screenshots from YouTube video without downloading video to hard drive?

Matt
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ffmpeg used to have support for libquvi that would allow to download video directly. Since it does not support the library anymore, to process a video from YouTube, you should download it using youtube-dl instead.

I am not aware of any live-processing capabilities.

slhck
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The answer to this is yes it is possible. You need to use PageSpeed Insights API. Use the Youtube API to showcase the video with a start and end time in a unique page, then allow PageSpeed Insights API to take and save screenshots of that page. Edit that screen shot accordingly. Then you have snapshots of the video at the specified time stamps.

Maciek
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