Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloadshttps://getvodforge.com
I built VODForge because I work with a CTV company that needed to pull YouTube videos from our channel partners into our media workflow. Converter sites are always an option but the bitrate wasn't optimal for a CTV network that needs to make multiple streaming version off of a single source file. So I build vodforge to use yt-dlp and ffmpeg under the hood with preconfigured settings for the highest quality end result, automatically adjusting the output settings based on source quality, frame rate, and things like that. It became a game changer internally for us because we were able to avoid s…
