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[Kvilimas]

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Hi,
I'm a newbie on youtube-dl. I have tried to download a video from bbc iplayer.
After video part (mp4) and audio part (m4a) gets downloaded, the ffmpeg step fails.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Kostas Vilimas

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p057nmkt/against-the-law']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.30.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-83-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, avprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] p057nmkt: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] p057nmkt: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading media selection XML
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading MPD manifest
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[bbc.co.uk] b08yp734: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://vod-dash-uk-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/16a584-b08yp734/vf_b08yp734_91e8d42e-b443-495a-bae9-3067fb17547b.ism.hlsv2.ism/dash/'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1293
[download] Destination: Against the Law-b08yp734.fstream-uk-iptv_streaming_concrete_combined_hd_mf_limelight_uk_dash_https-video=5070000.mp4
[download] 100% of 824.66MiB in 13:09
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://vod-dash-uk-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/16a584-b08yp734/vf_b08yp734_91e8d42e-b443-495a-bae9-3067fb17547b.ism.hlsv2.ism/dash/'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1293
[download] Destination: Against the Law-b08yp734.fstream-uk-iptv_streaming_concrete_combined_hd_mf_limelight_uk_dash_https-audio_eng=128000.m4a
[download] 100% of 75.17MiB in 07:09
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Against the Law-b08yp734.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: avconv -y -i 'file:Against the Law-b08yp734.fstream-uk-iptv_streaming_concrete_combined_hd_mf_limelight_uk_dash_https-video=5070000.mp4' -i 'file:Against the Law-b08yp734.fstream-uk-iptv_streaming_concrete_combined_hd_mf_limelight_uk_dash_https-audio_eng=128000.m4a' -c copy -map '0:v:0' -map '1:a:0' 'file:Against the Law-b08yp734.temp.mp4'
ERROR: Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Invalid argument
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2002, in post_process
    files_to_delete, info = pp.run(info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 479, in run
    self.run_ffmpeg_multiple_files(info['__files_to_merge'], temp_filename, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 204, in run_ffmpeg_multiple_files
    raise FFmpegPostProcessorError(msg)
FFmpegPostProcessorError: Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Invalid argument
<end of log>

[dstftw]

Update ffmpeg.

[Kvilimas]

well, the error was the same. What did help though was youtube-dl option "-f best" Regards, Kostas Vilimas 2017-08-06 12:41 GMT+02:00 Sergey M. <notifications@github.com>:

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[dstftw]

Most likely it wasn't updated. You've just selected single file format with lower quality.