`--quiet` isn't quiet, it's actually very loud

[jikamens]

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I am using youtube-dl to record the YouTube live stream of A Prairie Home Companion when they do live shows out of St. Paul. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide a link to a specific YouTube video which has the issue I'm about to describe, because these live streams are only accessible on YouTube while the show is actually being broadcast, and I've been unable to find another video on YouTube which manifests the behavior I'm about to describe.

My recording setup has two components: (1) a script which monitors the broadcast schedule and A Prarie Home Companion home page to detect when they're about to go live, find the URL to record, and schedule a cron job and do the recording, and (2) the script called from my crontab to do the recording.

The script called from crontab is quite straightforward:

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/bash_completion.d/virtualenvwrapper
workon youtube-dl

set -e

youtube_id=$1; shift
dir=/tmp/prairie-home.$$

rm -rf $dir
mkdir -p $dir
cd $dir
fn="A Prairie Home Companion.S$(date +%Y).E$(date +%m%d).mp4"
youtube-dl --quiet -f 95 -o "$fn" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$youtube_id"
cp *.mp4 "/mnt/recordings/Kodi/Prairie Home Companion/"
cd
rm -rf $dir

The important line is the youtube-dl --quiet line, which should record the video quietly. It doesn't. Instead, I get an email from cron with a huge amount of output in it, that looks like this:

ffmpeg version 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 20160609
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.16.04.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal --enable-op
 engl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv
  WARNING: library configuration mismatch
  avcodec     configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.16.04.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal
  --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv --enable-version3 --disable-doc --disable-programs --disable-avdevice --disable-avfilter --disable-avformat --disable-avresample --disable-postproc --disable-swscale --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libvo_aacenc --enable-libvo_amrwbenc
  libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
  libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
  libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
[tls @ 0x1f63a40] The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
[tls @ 0x1f63a40] The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/lxubIG80QcQ.1/itag/95/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/cmbypass/yes/goi/160/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/sgovp/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D136/hls_chunk_host/r3---sn-gjo-cvnl.googlevideo.com/ei/Z7wgWYS8D4zKqAW53KiQBQ/playlist_type/LIVE/gcr/us/mm/32/mn/sn-gjo-cvnl/ms/lv/mv/m/pl/19/dover/6/upn/sIt9j2AF3Ao/mt/1495317548/ip/146.115.42.232/ipbits/0/expire/1495339206/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,cmbypass,goi,sgoap,sgovp,hls_chunk_host,ei,playlist_type,gcr,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl/signature/9771206B48DF2371C829B43B20A50167A85F61AC.70C2ACEB9D719E5308113FF604347FE57D0F2841/key/dg_yt0/playlist/index.m3u8':
  Duration: N/A, start: 965.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Program 0 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 127 kb/s
    Stream #0:1: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 60 tbc
[mp4 @ 0x2a5d100] Codec for stream 0 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers
[mp4 @ 0x2a5d100] Codec for stream 1 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:A Prairie Home Companion.S2017.E0520.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf56.40.101
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, 127 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[tls @ 0x2412080] The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
[tls @ 0x2412080] The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
frame=  450 fps= 85 q=-1.0 size=     751kB time=00:00:15.02 bitrate= 409.7kbits/s    [tls @ 0x2c08d00] The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
[tls @ 0x2c08d00] The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
frame=  750 fps= 69 q=-1.0 size=    1224kB time=00:00:25.02 bitrate= 400.8kbits/s    [tls @ 0x2c08d00] The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
...many repetitions of lines like the two shown above...
[tls @ 0x2c08d00] The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
[tls @ 0x2c051c0] The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
...many repetitions of lines like the two shown above...
[tls @ 0x24390e0] The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
[https @ 0x240ae80] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
[hls,applehttp @ 0x1f611a0] Failed to reload playlist 0
[https @ 0x240ae80] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
[hls,applehttp @ 0x1f611a0] Failed to reload playlist 0
frame=220200 fps= 10 q=-1.0 size= 1115493kB time=02:02:20.01 bitrate=1245.0kbits/s    frame=220200 fps= 10 q=-1.0 Lsize= 1121684kB time=02:02:20.01 bitrate=1251.9kbits/s    
video:1002943kB audio:112335kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.574402%

It's probably not useful to see the entire output, but I've attached it just in case I'm wrong about that.

I'm not asking for much, I just want youtube-dl to be quiet when I say --quiet. ;-)

Thanks.

[jikamens]

P.S. I know that the output above is from ffmpeg, not directly from youtube-dl. I had sort of assumed (incorrectly?) that youtube-dl would tell ffmpeg to be quiet when it is invoked with --quiet?

[jikamens]

Thanks!