That’s something I’m interested in also as I’ve just got a surge protector right now but I’m not sure what to buy. Again, I’m not the best with hardware but I’ve got that on my radar. Thanks!

Thank you for the sites and information! I’m afraid I’m gonna have to have what I want built as I just don’t have the technical skills to do what I want.

Sorry, RD???

I appreciate the recommendation. I’m just afraid I’m not tech-savvy enough to work these things plus I don’t want to get stuck with a DMCA or something like that, you know?

Thanks for the response! I understood some of that. I used to be a techie but technology has left me in the dirt in the past years. You kinda lost me starting with paragraph 3.

So, it sounds like i want to find a “dedicated” seedbox if I go that route. Thanks for the recomendations!

Would you have any recommendations on hardware? If I go local, I would want 2 sets of similar hardware; one for primary storage and the 2nd for backup. Thanks!

This sounds like excellent advice. I happen to have a licensed version of BeyondCompare that I can install and do Hex compare. I appreciate the guidelines to follow and I agree with you on the “pre-cracked” options. I would always install from the developer’s site first and then use the patch if I use it at all. Unfortunately, this software mush have a “phone-home” features and has a “hosts file” change as well. As with the previous response, I would appreciate your input on whether you would try it or not.

Wondershare Uniconverter

Thanks for your excellent advice & input!

Thank you so much for explaining all of this! So, it’s not an “exact” match for a virus, it’s the “behaviour” of the Patch/Crack that makes the AV/Malware software “see” or “think” it’s a Virus/Malware. That makes much more sense.

I’ve copied the link for the software with patch below. Wondershare UniConverter

At the bottom of the link, are the references from VirusTotals. I use Avast & Malwarebytes Pro and the report says Malwarebytes would catch and quarantine it. I guess a virus/malware to me is always a risk and I’ve had my system crashed in the past due to that and don’t want a repeat. If you don’t mind, I would like your opinion on whether to try it or not. Again, thanks so much for the explanation!

I agree that file is probably just a false positive. I deleted it from quarantine and it didn’t affect the program at all.

You are absolutely THE BEST!!! I appreciate all your hard work so much. This saves me sooo much time and is so helpful! I cannot thank you enough.

I’ve tested the process in a single & multi-language channel and a single video & it worked for perfectly for all.

Several questions I have:

1 - When I installed Tartube, my Antivirus told me the gslangValidator.exe file was infected by Win64: Evo-gen [Trj] and quarantined it. Any idea why?

2 - How do I get rid of all the other files like jpeg, txt, json etc. files or are they supposed to be there.

3 - Supposing I wanted a 360p resolution downloaded, what would have to be changed in the format options?

I’m really amazed at this and hope to learn more about Tartube. Thank you very much for your time in putting all this together & I look forward to further correspondence!

Thanks for all the information!

4K Video Downloader can download the “old” format of YT videos where a channel is strictly a particular language and put it in an MKV container with the resolution I select & an SRT subtitle using a VP9 codec & that’s fine. I just run it through my video converter and I’m good. The problem is when I try to download from one of the “new” multi-audio/sub channels. (Ugh!)

Ok, so now let me see if I can answer your questions:
Q1 - Yes, I mean a channel with multiple audio tracks but I can only access the English version although I know there’s a Japanese track there also.
Q2 - The subtitle is the one you get by selecting CC on the YT control panel. I can see it with IDM but it’s in TIML format. 4K gives me a SRT on the “old” channels.
Q3 - Yes, when I download I want a pre-merged file with the appropriate streams (Video, Japanese Audio & English Subtitles) preferably with an SRT sub.

I hope that made sense. I’ve tried Tartube a bit but like you said it will still be the problem I run into with 4K Downloader, I can’t get the original Japanese audio. I can go to YouTube 4k Downloader and enter the URL for the file and download the Japanese audio and remux the file but when you’re talking about >100 files that’s a long process.

Again, thank you for the information and explantion of the command line. I’m not very good with command line stuff but I will try it and see if I can get it work for me. Please feel free to comment back.

Yeah, I liked Jdownloader2 but I can do about the same with 4K Video Downloader plus it conflicted and corrupted my IDM installation so I had to remove both and reinstall IDM to get it back working. Lesson 1: you don’t install 2 downloaders. LOL

Phew, that worked better. No virus that time. I’ll give it a try and see if it’ll work for me. I was getting a bit nervous there for a minute. Thank you for updating your information!

My antivirus flagged it as a virus (Potential Unwanted Program). Thank goodness it caught and quarantined it.