yt-dlp won't download anything

[FlashFried]

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• I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site
• I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version 2023.09.24 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
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Something is currently wrong with yt-dlp. It displays that it's downloading a video, but then terminates with no given cause. I am running the latest version of yt-dlp. Is this an issue with Youtube?

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '-x', '--audio-format', 'mp3', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce71ToVVxts']
[debug] User config "C:\Users\Noah Bangs\yt-dlp.conf": ['-o', 'H:\\youtube-dl\\Export\\%(webpage_url_domain)s\\%(channel)s\\%(artist)s\\%(album)s\\%(title)s - %(channel,artist,album)s.%(ext)s', '--retries', '-1', '--rate-limit', '2m']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.09.24 [088add956] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2023-09-29-git-40aa451154-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2023-09-29-git-40aa451154-full_build-www.gyan.dev, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.19.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2023.07.22, mutagen-1.47.0, sqlite3-3.35.5, websockets-11.0.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1886 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.09.24, Current version: stable@2023.09.24
Current Build Hash: 125465ac4416bcd4bf1632b899630ceecc08b341e83fdf10bd34700c58ea5152
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.09.24)
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce71ToVVxts
[youtube] Ce71ToVVxts: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Ce71ToVVxts: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] Ce71ToVVxts: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] Ce71ToVVxts: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec:vp9.2, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] Ce71ToVVxts: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr4---sn-q4flrnsd.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1696047594&ei=ik0XZb34CpyClu8P3Ne5wAs&ip=194.156.136.88&id=o-APqQGrK6-m4QB4_uRRhXTIHvetEvX7s_1siMjuS85lCe&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=Ky&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-q4flrnsd%2Csn-vgqskn6d&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=24&gcr=us&initcwndbps=1830000&spc=UWF9f3SWEm90WbjgqFZs5N2t4kVSwWg&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=4290666&dur=278.781&lmt=1565865209946935&mt=1696025629&fvip=1&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246&beids=24350017&c=ANDROID&txp=2311222&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cgcr%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIgLt1lDxpZib0L0HOi0Q3u3CH0y9enceN8DB2XGJbz_HoCIQCxc9DrwbJJdZJXw6OLi7U7BBO1y-UYTmw3IEwgy2SmjA%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRAIgXDq0MoP3N5gich1PFGInflvGKU49nu--_uCqBvGy3qYCIF4dgcOUV14_miFlZTQjjZuQMBZf8d4mMzyN9SJ0S2TT"

[bashonly]

[debug] User config "C:\Users\Noah Bangs\yt-dlp.conf": ['-o', 'H:\\youtube-dl\\Export\\%(webpage_url_domain)s\\%(channel)s\\%(artist)s\\%(album)s\\%(title)s - %(channel,artist,album)s.%(ext)s',

Is H: a network drive? An external HDD? Are you able to download with yt-dlp to other drives/paths?

[FlashFried]

[debug] User config "C:\Users\Noah Bangs\yt-dlp.conf": ['-o', 'H:\\youtube-dl\\Export\\%(webpage_url_domain)s\\%(channel)s\\%(artist)s\\%(album)s\\%(title)s - %(channel,artist,album)s.%(ext)s',

Is H: a network drive? An external HDD? Are you able to download with yt-dlp to other drives/paths?

No, it's another internal hard drive.

[bashonly]

Why are you passing --retries -1 ? This is causing yt-dlp to not try at all

[FlashFried]

Why are you passing --retries -1 ? This is causing yt-dlp to not try at all

I thought it would make the tries infinite. That fixed it.

[bashonly]

make the tries infinite

--retries infinite or just --retries inf