Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> Arve Barsnes wrote:
>> I have not updated to yesterday's version yet, but using this format
>> string on the command line on a HD video downloaded a 720p video, as
>> expected.
>>
>> Immediate thought is that there's a stray config file somewhere still.
>> Why do you get the 'ytdl-format' thing? As far as the internet can
>> tell me, this is a mpv command line option.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arve
>>
>>
>
> That idea turned into something.  I recently started running the command
> as my user instead of root.  I was trying to fix permissions issues
> since it sets them as root:root when run as root plus it shouldn't be
> run as root.  Anyway, I thought I'd better look in /home/dale and see if
> there was a config file in there.  Yep, there it was.  I think the
> problem may be that they was a leading space at the beginning of the
> relevant line.  That space may have confused youtube-dl. 
>
> It didn't hit me that this started when I started switching to my user
> instead of running as root.  I don't recall setting up that user config
> file either.  That said, it was likely many years ago.  Will update
> later when I test it again.
>
> Oh, it was grabbing the right format despite the error.  It never went
> above 720P or 1280 wide.  It was working, just complaining about it.  lol
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>


Just to confirm.  I been using the old version still but the error
message is gone.  Me starting to use my user account and it having a bad
config I forgot about was the problem. 

Thanks for the help.  :-D 

Dale

:-)  :-)