Short Films not working any more?

[gbstan]

Hi Vitor,

Recently I have noticed that short films is not working for me anymore. I have the latest version of short films and also the latest versions of youtube-dl and mpv from brew (brew directly, not brew cask).

When a short film is selected in Alfred mpv opens briefly and then closes. I have the impression that the issue comes from youtube-dl somehow not passing information properly to mpv internally. Note that when I execute on the command line:

open -a mpv youtube_address

this works perfectly.

Any idea how to fix this?
Do you have the same issue with the latest versions of your installed brews (youtube-dl, mpv)?

Guy

[gbstan]

I have looked into this a bit more. When I copy the link of any of the short films from invoking shorts and pressing CTRL+ENTER, and then launch in a terminal mpv link_address, this is what I get:

mpv https://player.vimeo.com/video/150608819
Playing: https://player.vimeo.com/video/150608819
[ytdl_hook]
[ytdl_hook] stack traceback:
[ytdl_hook] [C]: in function 'len'
[ytdl_hook] @ytdl_hook.lua:71: in function 'edl_escape'
[ytdl_hook] @ytdl_hook.lua:139: in function 'edl_track_joined'
[ytdl_hook] @ytdl_hook.lua:171: in function 'add_single_video'
[ytdl_hook] @ytdl_hook.lua:454: in function 'fn'
[ytdl_hook] mp.defaults:518: in function 'handler'
[ytdl_hook] mp.defaults:339: in function 'handler'
[ytdl_hook] mp.defaults:458: in function 'call_event_handlers'
[ytdl_hook] mp.defaults:495: in function 'dispatch_events'
[ytdl_hook] mp.defaults:451: in function mp.defaults:450
[ytdl_hook] [C]: in ?
[ytdl_hook] [C]: in ?
[ytdl_hook] Lua error: @ytdl_hook.lua:71: bad argument #1 to 'len' (string expected, got nil)
Failed to recognize file format.

Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

[gbstan]

Seems to be linked to this issue with youtube-dl for the moment: mpv-player/mpv#4728 (comment)

[vitorgalvao]

My setup is the same as yours, and I had noticed this problem before and also found that issue from mpv’s repo. As you’ve noticed, the issue is not related to the Workflow, so there’s not much I can do to fix it.

Videos from the website ShortFilms queries are mostly vimeo, and I also cannot get mpv {{vimeo_link}} to work, so we’ll need to wait for them to fix it, unfortunately. It’s a bit of a pain, since even the HEAD version of mpv seems to not have fixed it yet.

In the meantime what I’ve been doing is ⌘↩ on the videos, to download with DownVid and then play with WatchList.

[gbstan]

Thank you Vitor!

[vitorgalvao]

Forgot to mention before: thank you for the detailed bug report!

[gbstan]

My pleasure. This is the least I can do to help figure out what the problem is.

[gbstan]

Looks like the new version of youtube-dl on brew released today has fixed the problem.

[gbstan]

Actually, it has solved some problems but not all: playlists in youtube now work but not vimeo videos typically used on short films.

[gbstan]

I have filed a bug report on the mpv channel of GitHub: mpv-player/mpv#4827

[mc4man]

If you were to be using the latest youtube-dl there is no issue with mpv
(- certainly any youtube-dl from 2017.08.23 on..

[gbstan]

I am actually using the very latest version of youtube-dl from brew (installed today) and I still have the issue!

[gbstan]

Just to be clear and complete, I have the latest version of youtube-dl installed: 2017.09.02

[vitorgalvao]

Fixed in mpv-player/mpv@d280b3d.