Stream to a media player and close it, --frag* files not deleted and re-used

[jalba69]

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Hello,

Firs let me say thank you for this wonderful tool,

While using it to stream to a media player on some URL's it downloads --frag* files and if we stop the player for whatever reasons the --frag* files remain and are not deleted on exit.

Plus i noticed that if i use a different video URL on the same website the --frag* files already stored and not deleted will be used for the first part of the video in the media player, so i end up with a video having mixed content from 2 videos.

The --frag* files created during a stream to media player simply needs to be deleted once the application is closed.

Moreover we can't set the location path where we want to store those --frag* files, in my case i'd like to set them on my Ramdisk for multiples reasons :

For example I have a custom button on my browser toolbar that automatically copy the browser page URL and calls a batch file where the url is passed automatically to youtube-dl and the media streamed to MPC-HC, on a page having a video media i click the button on my toolbar and all is read in the media player, all this in a single click.

In this particular case when called from the browser with a batch file the --frag* files will be created ( and remain ) in my browser installation folder, not on the youtube-dl folder like when i call the program from there directly like i also do, in fact i call it from different programs to stream to MPC-HC and end up with --frag* files remaining and stored all over the place.

Plus using a Ramdisk for all those write/read small files will be a nice thing to speed up and ease the thing too.

Thanks a lot for your program, can't spend a day without using it :)

[DokVis]

I'm having the same issue, would be nice if there was a commandline to delete the fragfiles when playing to a stream

[jalba69]

A i use mostly batch scripts to run the program embedded in various applications i added this at the end of all my batches for now :

If exist --frag* (goto delete) else (exit)
:delete
echo Deleting --Frag* files
del --Frag*

Still would like to see this automated as i still have some tools used in direct without batch scripts and the --frag* files are created and not removed automatically, need a manual cleanup or the first fragments already stored will be used for next stream to a media player, and more than anything i would like to see a possibility to set a folder to where all those --frag files go, would really like to be able to tell the program to use my Ramdisk for all this stuff.

Hopefully the guys working on this wonderful tool will have some time at some point to add such changes.

One can only hope ;)

[remitamine]

Hopefully the guys working on this wonderful tool will have some time at some point to add such changes.

this problem should be fixed with #9937, it will remove the need for Frag files.

[jalba69]

Hello ,

Will the part of your code be merge with master project at some point ?
I'm not a coder, I use the .exe file for windows, don't have much clues about how things work inside github to merge branches or even compile myself an exe out of all this sadly :/

Your list of changes seems interesting and looks like it will solve the issues indeed, hope to see this added to main project soon.

Thank you

[remitamine]

Will the part of your code be merge with master project at some point ?

it should be reviewed by another core developer before merging.

[jalba69]

Well... just need a bit of patience to see this fixed then i hope.

Thank you for your answers and hopefully your part of the code will make it soon into master branch.

[mpenkov]

@jalba69 The pull request that @remitamine mentioned (#10993) got merged. It should fix your issue.

Can you please confirm whether it is still a problem?

[jalba69]

Sorry for the very late reply ( was not notified) , tested and it seems to work indeed, i see no more frag files remaining :)

thanks a lot and sorry again for the long delay in reply