Given that I am the one who suggested recording, this is aimed at my post. I will dissect this and explain why it’s not such an awful solution.
- “recorded audio has noise”
This is only true if recorded through a lossy method, such as recording a speaker with phone’s microphone. In the case of OBS recording native audio stream, there will be no loss. It is a 1:1 recording of sound and video output. There is no loss here beyond what the quality of the source file is and recording settings. Default settings are likely fine.
edit: see below for corrections!!!
- “hard to control the begin and end time”
Not really. Just hit start and end. Trim in Kdenlive if needed.
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The reason I suggest this method is that it provides a relatively simple solution without the need for random 3rd party extensions, or potentially untrustworthy 3rd party websites. 95% of these extensions are adware, scams or trying to scrape your info. As op said:
I’ve tried several online Instagram video downloader tools and browser extensions, but they were full of ads and I’m worried about the security risks.
The OBS approach bypasses many common gotcha’s and risks by simply using open source software.
Lets say the clip is 2 minutes long. You can spend 1 hour fighting with sketchy plugins or 3rd party sites to maybe find a solution…
Or you can spend 2 minutes simply recording the clip. (this does not include time required to install OBS)
If yt-dl works, that’s great! Just be very careful with plugins and random “downloaders”.
It looks as if this “AllclipDown” requires the user to download a weird trash 3rd party program frrom a sketchy site. Sorry, but your solution is objectively far worse.
As you stated yourself:
In this case, I suspect such a program to be the adware itself directly.
