Youtube-dlg stops downloading queue when encountering blocked content

[TMi4]

First of all, thanks for this awesome tool.

Sadly I encountered an issue when downloading playlists or channels:

ERROR: [...]: YouTube said: Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA.

After this yt-dlg just halts and does not finish what's left in the queue.

This should be solvable by using youtube-dl's "-i" or "--ignore-errors".
I tired setting this up in the "Commands" section within the options, but it doesn't seem to work as I am still getting the Error and youtube-dlg refuses to download anything after it encountered said GEMA related error.

This is not about circumventing geo-blocking; I just want yt-dlg to continue downloading and skipping blocked videos to finish whats left in the queue.

[MrS0m30n3]

Hi, thanks for using youtube-dlg.

Thats probably a youtube-dl problem. As you said the "-i" options should fix this as the youtube-dl documentation suggests:

-i, --ignore-errors
continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist

Also, you don't need to specify the "-i" or "--ignore-errors" under Options>Commands tab there is already the "Ignore Errors" option under Options>Filesystem tab.

You should update youtube-dl to the latest version by using the update button on youtube-dlg.

If you still encounter the same problem then try downloading the playlist URL using youtube-dl from the command-line. First WITHOUT using the "-i" options e.g. "youtube-dl [PLAYLIST_URL]" (You should get the GEMA ERROR as above) and then using the "-i" option e.g. "youtube-dl -i [PLAYLIST_URL]". If the second one does NOT work you should report it on the youtube-dl repo else i will look it up.

(You can also specify a proxy under Options>Connection tab on the field "Proxy")

[MrS0m30n3]

Also, can you please tell me if the GUI stays frozen or if it terminates normally when the GEMA ERROR occurs?
Because if the GUI stays frozen then it's probably an error with the python subprocess module.
(A youtube-dlg back-end issue and NOT a youtube-dl issue).

[MrS0m30n3]

I am closing this issue, feel free to reopen it if you need to.