Clips YouTube Downloader 1.0.0

This software was created to download missing videos from your games and which are among other things missing from emumovies.

What it does:

• 📥 Clips YouTube Downloader – Creates 40-second gameplay clips directly from YouTube URLs stored in your LaunchBox platform XML files. Perfect for building a consistent library of preview videos. 40-second clips are created from half of the video or the first 40 seconds if it is too short.

• 🧹 Remove URL from XML – Cleans up dead or broken YouTube links in your XML so LaunchBox won’t try to download them again.

• 🔧 Fix Missing Video – Scans your video folders, compares them with your XML entries, and corrects the missing status if a clip is already present but incorrectly marked as absent.

How to use it:

1. Download the required Youtube downloader and FFmpeg via the button or browse for the path to use.

2. Select the platform XML file you want to work with.

3. Choose what you want to do:

   • Download videos from YouTube and create clips with the Start button,

   • Create only video clips, useful if ffmpeg freezes during a video, even if the software tries to detect problems at this level.

4. Move the downloaded clips into the correct LaunchBox Videos folder for that platform.

5. Use the button Remove URL from XML, to remove dead links and Fix missing videos to fix the platform file with the newly created clips.

Use the "update metadata" tool if some errors persist in the platform file; video present, but not seen by launchbox.

• Select all games on a platform, Tools -> Downloads -> Update metadata and media for Selected Games. Choose not to download any media and "Yes, but do not replace any existing fields of media (recommended)".

That’s it — you’ll have a cleaner, more accurate library with proper 40-second preview videos for your games.