video-processor

To download and transcribe a YouTube video, you provide the video URL. The tool fetches the media using yt-dlp and transcribes the audio to text using OpenAI Whisper, outputting subtitle files like srt or txt.

Yes, you can extract audio only from a YouTube video. The download process supports audio-only extraction, allowing you to pull podcast audio from supported platforms for analysis or offline listening.

Yes, FFmpeg and Whisper must be installed in your environment. FFmpeg handles the video format conversion between MP4 and WebM, while Whisper is required specifically for the audio transcription feature.

The best way to generate SRT subtitles is to use the transcription feature. It processes the downloaded audio with Whisper, supporting multiple languages and outputting subtitle formats including SRT, VTT, and JSON.

Yes, yt-dlp works with Vimeo and many other supported sites. You can download videos from these platforms directly, preparing web-ready video assets or extracting media for further format conversion.

Video transcription stops working if FFmpeg is missing because the tool depends on it to process and decode audio. Both FFmpeg and Whisper are required dependencies in the environment to execute the transcription pipeline successfully.