External binaries

This project depends on three external tools that are not bundled in the repository.
You must download them manually and place each binary in the correct folder before building or running the app locally.

Required tools

Tool	Role
yt-dlp	Video and audio download engine
ffmpeg	Media encoding, transcoding, muxing
ffprobe	Media file analysis and metadata extraction
deno	JavaScript / TypeScript runtime

Folder structure

Place the binaries exactly as shown below.
Do not rename them — the application resolves them by these exact names.

resources/
└── binaries/
    ├── linux/
    │   ├── yt-dlp
    │   ├── ffmpeg
    │   ├── ffprobe
    │   └── deno
    └── win-32/
        ├── yt-dlp.exe
        ├── ffmpeg.exe
        ├── ffprobe.exe
        └── deno.exe

Download links

yt-dlp

Platform	URL
Windows	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe
Linux	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp

Rename the downloaded file to yt-dlp (or yt-dlp.exe on Windows).

ffmpeg and ffprobe

Windows and Linux — both binaries are included in the same archive.

Platform	URL
Windows x64	https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip
Linux x64	https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-linux64-gpl.tar.xz
Linux arm64	https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-linuxarm64-gpl.tar.xz

Extract the archive and copy ffmpeg and ffprobe from the bin/ subfolder.

deno

Platform	URL
Windows x64	https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/latest/download/deno-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
Linux x64	https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/latest/download/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip
Linux arm64	https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/latest/download/deno-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip

Each archive contains a single binary. Rename it to deno (or deno.exe on Windows).

Permissions (Linux )

After placing the binaries, make them executable:

chmod +x resources/binaries/linux/yt-dlp
chmod +x resources/binaries/linux/ffmpeg
chmod +x resources/binaries/linux/ffprobe
chmod +x resources/binaries/linux/deno

Notes

These binaries are excluded from version control via .gitignore.
Always use the latest stable release of each tool.

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