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Premeires are incorrectly identified to not be a livestream #51

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sbrl opened this issue Oct 14, 2021 · 2 comments
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Premeires are incorrectly identified to not be a livestream #51

sbrl opened this issue Oct 14, 2021 · 2 comments

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@sbrl
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sbrl commented Oct 14, 2021

When I try to download a YouTube premiere with this tool, it claims it's not a livestream? Yet youtube-dl appears to treat it as one?

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Kethsar commented Oct 14, 2021

Premieres are not livestreams. They are initially streamed live for the premiere, sure, but the video has already been uploaded and processed in full and the flags list it as non-live content. ytarchive was not made for those, seeing as how they can be downloaded properly and likely faster immediately after the premiere is over.

I could potentially add support in the future, but then you'll end up with the pre-premiere intro. Also for all I know, the streamed version of the premiere might not merely be a split of the already processed video, but instead something lower quality. So I personally wouldn't recommend downloading them during the premiere unless it's something you expect to be privated immediately after.

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sbrl commented Oct 16, 2021

Ah, ok - thanks for explaining! I just got confused because youtube-dl seems to treat it as a livestream rather than a pre-uploaded video.

Yeah, in this case it was a video that was going to go private an hour or two afterwards - which incidentally wasn't enough time to run youtube-dl over it because for some strange reason I'm seeing extremely slow speeds in youtube-dl (less than 200KB/s) - despite the fact that I have 100mbps download on my connection that is known good.

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