Retard-proof Guide for Watermarking - With fun details spoilered!

[Not Xavier Ravenblood]

Due to a few users saying they don't understand how to watermark and due to the popularity of the watermaring discussion thread I've tasked myself with making an easy guide on how to install yt-dlp (Youtube downloader) and ffmpeg (for processing videos and adding the mark).

I have packaged everything neatly in a .7z for everyone to download with everything already installed (for Windows) with a handy readme to reference. Please note this requires 7zip or winrar. Feel free to vet this as it's simply ffmpeg and yt-dlp downloaded directly from both sources without any changes. Note that the executables are both complete compiled binaries so no dependencies are requires, thus both programs will run only from their executables. Note the compiled/modified date on the file and stare/compare to the current build on the website to verify that I have not modified it.

Installation
1. Extract the .7z to C:\ so that your filepath is C:\ytdl
1b. Alternatively if you don't trust zip files download yt-dlp here and ffmpeg here (click the blue Windows x64 button) and install them in a folder named 'ytdl' under C:\
The .exe should be directly in C:\ytdl so that the exe filepath is C:\ytdl\yt-dlp.exe

2. Open CMD (press Windows button + R and type "cmd" without the quotes | open the start menu and type cmd and press enter). Leave this window open for now.

3a. Now we are going to create a system environment variable in windows so that you do not have to call upon the .exes within their directory without having to navigate to this directory every time. This is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as it just makes it much easier for your future self.

Click START -> type envir -> click Edit the system environment variables

Click ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES


You will see User Variables for $userName at the top, underneath this doubleclick PATH. Click new and type c:\ytdl and press enter. Click new and type c:\ffmpeg and press enter. It should now look like this:


VERY IMPORTANT: Press OK out of this window, press OK out of the next window, and press OK out the the next window. If you do not do this it will not save your changes.


4. Optional but Recommended: Create or edit the file named ".netrc". If you do not have this file simply create a new text document and rename it to .netrc (not .netrc.txt) and paste:
"machine youtube login YOUTUBELOGIN@EMAIL password PASSWORDGOESHERE"

You do not need to use a login for downloading from youtube however if you are downloading videos over a VPN you may get errors regarding "sign in to confirm you are not a bot" or "age verification required". I recommend making a separate youtube/google account for this for anonymity purposes. You can create one without mobile number verification if you switch your VPN to Norway and clear your cache and try again. Obviously you need to copy/paste your email address and password in the file.


Installation complete.

You may now open CMD and run: ytdl and ffmpeg without going to their directory as it is a global command line variable. I would recommend doing a yt-dlp -U to update to the newest version before going further.

Spoiler: README reference guide

\\ edit usernameEmail and PASSWORD in .netrc before using

yt-dlp "URL" \\ simple download to mp4 \\ add -o 'filename' to download to a specific filename

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "URL" \\ simple mp3 download

yt-dlp -U \\ Update

\\ Watermark (replace input_file and output_file)

ffmpeg -y -i INPUT_FILE.mp4 -f lavfi -i color=c=0x00000000@0.0:s=qcif:r=10,format=rgba -filter_complex "[1]drawtext=text='nigger':fontsize=48:fontcolor=#00000077[totile];[totile]tile=25x25[tooverlay];[0:v][tooverlay]overlay=x=sin(n / 5)*5:y=sin(n / 3) * 2" -shortest OUTPUT_FILE.mp4

Congratulations and happy watermarking.


ytdlp reference for more advanced options

For quickly editing down videos I highly recommend also installing XMedia Recode and watching some Indian tutorials or whatever to learn how to clip videos and/or add audio. It's simple and straight forward and open source (free).

 

[A Log in D Tractor 2]

Something to add to this, to make the niggermarking even easier so you don't have to remember the command, you can make a profile command in your powershell so you just have to type

niggermark -i input.mp4 -o output.mp4

After you have followed the steps in Xavier's post, open powershell, type "notepad $profile", it will open up a txt file. Add the following to it:

Function niggermark{
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$InputFile,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$OutputFile
    )
    ffmpeg -i $InputFile -f lavfi -i color=c=0x00000000@0.0:s=qcif:r=10,format=rgba -filter_complex "[1]drawtext=text='nigger':fontsize=48:fontcolor=#00000077[totile];[totile]tile=25x25[tooverlay];[0:v][tooverlay]overlay=x=sin(n / 5)*5:y=sin(n / 3) * 2" -shortest $OutputFile
}

Save and close notepad, close powershell, and when you reopen it you should be able to use the niggermark command.

 

[Unpalatable]

Make it extra easy by adding it as a right click option (Windows).

Lazy guide:

1. Open regedit.
2. Go to "Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell".
3. Right click it and add a new key. This is the name that shows.
4. Add another key to that key called "command".
5. Double click (Default) to edit it.
6. Add your watermark script or something else like C:\WindowsIsBad\ffmpeg.exe -i "%1" -ar 348000 "%1"_marked.wav

 

[Dante Alighieri]

What if I use linux (arch btw)?

 

[Not Xavier Ravenblood]

What if I use linux (arch btw)?

You should be more tech literate then, open the tar and put it somewhere and use it just the same. The download for ffmpeg is above. If you're on arch you don't deserve a retardproof guide.

tar -xf 'ytld and mmfpeg.7z' -c ~/ytdl
cd ~/download/
mv ffmpeg.exe ~/ytdl

cd /ytdl
./yt-dlp.exe
./ffmpeg.exe

alternatively move them to /bin/ or make the global variables