Speed up post-download merge by dropping embed-thumbnail and embed-metadata
Both flags trigger extra ffmpeg passes over the entire file after the stream merge. They're unnecessary — metadata lives in the DB and thumbnails come from YouTube. Removing them cuts the post-join wait to just the faststart rewrite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -643,7 +643,6 @@ def start_download(
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"-f", fmt,
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"--merge-output-format", "mp4",
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"--postprocessor-args", "Merger+ffmpeg:-movflags +faststart",
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"--embed-metadata", "--embed-thumbnail",
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"--no-part", "--no-mtime",
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"-o", output_template,
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"--newline", "--progress", "--no-colors",
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