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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:58 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Hi Dale, |
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I don't use youtube-dl enough to offer any significant input but in my |
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limited experience the general way to handle this is to first determine |
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what formats are actually available and then to pick one of those by |
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number: |
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mark@science:~$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTOZIvyXPo |
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[youtube] byTOZIvyXPo: Downloading webpage |
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[youtube] byTOZIvyXPo: Downloading MPD manifest |
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[info] Available formats for byTOZIvyXPo: |
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format code extension resolution note |
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139 m4a audio only DASH audio 52k , m4a_dash container, |
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mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz) |
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140 m4a audio only DASH audio 132k , m4a_dash container, |
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mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz) |
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251 webm audio only DASH audio 137k , webm_dash container, |
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opus @160k (48000Hz) |
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278 webm 192x144 DASH video 95k , webm_dash container, |
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vp9, 24fps, video only |
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160 mp4 192x144 DASH video 108k , mp4_dash container, |
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avc1.4d400b, 24fps, video only |
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242 webm 320x240 DASH video 220k , webm_dash container, |
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vp9, 24fps, video only |
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133 mp4 320x240 DASH video 242k , mp4_dash container, |
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avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only |
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243 webm 480x360 DASH video 405k , webm_dash container, |
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vp9, 24fps, video only |
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134 mp4 480x360 DASH video 477k , mp4_dash container, |
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avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only |
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244 webm 640x480 DASH video 752k , webm_dash container, |
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vp9, 24fps, video only |
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135 mp4 640x480 DASH video 1155k , mp4_dash container, |
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avc1.4d4014, 24fps, video only |
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18 mp4 480x360 360p 514k , avc1.42001E, 24fps, |
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mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 177.81MiB (best) |
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mark@science:~$ |
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Note that documentation for the --bestvideo/--bestaudio |
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options says that they 'may not be available'. |
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In many cases I've had to transcode the download for |
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my purpose which is very much a corner case. I use them in a |
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program called transcribe! which figures out most likely guitar |
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fingering positions from audio content and when video is |
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available will play the video so you can see where the player |
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is actually placing his fingers vs what the program thinks |
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she's/he's doing. |
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I suspect you might be able to script the youtube-dl and |
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transcode into a single batch file but that sort of stuff is generally |
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beyond me and I don't do it enough to warrant learning. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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