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Howdy, |
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I'm hearing bad things about youtube-dl. It seems the RIAA is punishing |
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people who use it legally for those who don't. Funny how the people who |
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don't do anything wrong pays for the ones who do while the ones who do |
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bad things get away. Anyway. |
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A good while back this list helped me set up the conf file for |
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youtube-dl so that it grabs the best resolution up to 720P or 1280 |
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resolution videos. I have no need for a 4K video. lol It seems |
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something changed a while back and the options in the conf file produce |
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a error. From the error, I can't figure out what to change. This is |
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the error. |
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ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a |
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valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl |
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"ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to |
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search YouTube |
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I'm using the normal youtube-dl <link to video> command. No options or |
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anything. This is what I have in the conf file. |
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--format |
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bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best |
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--merge-output-format mp4 |
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Those options worked for a long time so I guess something changed with |
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youtube-dl. I don't get why it says the options are a URL either. When |
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I google, I can't find where anyone is getting this error or using |
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different options either, at least not to accomplish the same goal. I |
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might add, my googling turned up the RIAA mess. May have to donate to |
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help fund lawyers. :/ |
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Anyone know what to do to fix it? I can't make heads or tails of it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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