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

[Dale]

David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote:
> [..]
>> ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a
>> valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl
>> "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to
>> search YouTube
>> [youtube] byTOZIvyXPo: Downloading webpage
> Please run again with -v, such as:
>
> $ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTOZIvyXPo
>
> and then check at the top for the lines:
>
> [debug] System config: []
> [debug] User config: [ .. THIS IS WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN .. ]
> [debug] Custom config: []
> [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPxJK4drcc']
> [..]
> [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
>
> and mail them here ... One should see there how yt-dl parses your
> config and hopefully what goes wrong with it.
>
> HTH,
> -dnh
>


Finally getting thing back to normal.  Been checking out the quality of
new power supply and the age of my mobo.  Mobo is 7 years old.  May
start digging around for one of those soon.  o_0

Searched for test video and grabbed the first hit.  Here is the complete
output. 


dale@fireball ~/Desktop $ youtube-dl -v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-i', '-v',
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.7.9 (CPython) -
Linux-5.6.7-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8350_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.7
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a
valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl
"ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to
search YouTube
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line
797, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File
"/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line
530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File
"/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line
2277, in _real_extract
    % (url, url), expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError:
'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid
URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl
"ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to
search YouTube

[youtube] C0DPdy98e4c: Downloading webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged
into mkv.
[debug] Invoking downloader on
'https://r2---sn-5uaeznd7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1603948129&ei=AfqZX8i_DJPqigTpkoDYAw&ip=74.188.248.51&id=o-AH8t98t1pWRhfF0y-tZC-qs49qI_zvZaKyBkU50HBe2G&itag=244&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C278%2C394%2C395%2C396%2C397&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=m8&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5uaeznd7%2Csn-q4flrn7s&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=20&initcwndbps=1165000&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=294311&dur=16.560&lmt=1449553649983144&mt=1603926401&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAKZU6AYMDnJ3MkiGZrpNIARGZ1wcxQIuhv8RefWrUPJEAiBIWn9PA40XVnnUclzEp_nV18Ah1PswHBQjNzNtA0Negg%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAKvXqCZKwVUndAMo_5bv6VxIvB7fMndYKg1QSCR0Tqu2AiEAp32rZZE_hPo5cb1uRjg4PozYqTvXkkjWIaPEj7A9aog%3D&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm
[download] 100% of 287.41KiB in 00:02
[debug] Invoking downloader on
'https://r2---sn-5uaeznd7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1603948129&ei=AfqZX8i_DJPqigTpkoDYAw&ip=74.188.248.51&id=o-AH8t98t1pWRhfF0y-tZC-qs49qI_zvZaKyBkU50HBe2G&itag=140&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=m8&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5uaeznd7%2Csn-q4flrn7s&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=20&initcwndbps=1165000&vprv=1&mime=audio%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=280597&dur=17.600&lmt=1509088061399864&mt=1603926401&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIgZi7NlmQITSpxyahnu-mmF0TTQU4tTrjKNeNypYfUZS0CIQC25F6S6QoiRZ8g7HJf5HI1Ch6GBVpTS8QogQBmpR4xWA%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAKvXqCZKwVUndAMo_5bv6VxIvB7fMndYKg1QSCR0Tqu2AiEAp32rZZE_hPo5cb1uRjg4PozYqTvXkkjWIaPEj7A9aog%3D&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a
[download] 100% of 274.02KiB in 00:02
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.mkv"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i
'file:TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm' -i 'file:TEST
VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 'file:TEST
VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.temp.mkv'
Deleting original file TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep)
dale@fireball ~/Desktop $


So you don't have to look back to old message, conf file again.


--format 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best'


Question.  I have other lines in there that I commented out using the
usual #.  Is that correct or does it use some other character for
comments?  Maybe is is seeing those lines as active when I don't want
them to be??  Other than that, I see the options in the user config line
above.  It's seeing it at least. 

Thoughts? 

Dale

:-)  :-)