From 3abbd5749ee1314809a6869fe7bf688df4230cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mattias Thall <mattias@inputnoi.se>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 20:26:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove embed-metadata and embed-thumbnail to speed up
 post-merge

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/services/ytdlp.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/services/ytdlp.py b/backend/services/ytdlp.py
index 3a4a250..2e8ad29 100644
--- a/backend/services/ytdlp.py
+++ b/backend/services/ytdlp.py
@@ -642,7 +642,6 @@ def start_download(
                     "yt-dlp", url,
                     "-f", fmt,
                     "--merge-output-format", "mp4",
-                    "--embed-metadata", "--embed-thumbnail",
                     "--no-part", "--no-mtime",
                     "-o", output_template,
                     "--newline", "--progress", "--no-colors",