[youtube] "Last message repeated XXX times" (or more)

[marabu88]

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I can not bring the log, since this does not happen with all streams! besides, these are living streams and I can not reproduce this problem! in addition, some streams are very time-consuming. At the end only this line is "Last message repeated XXX times". Nothing special except this.

Some live streams do not end correctly. I get the message "Last message repeated N times". "N" can be really big (N > 1000) and it really downloaded each time last message from Youtube. Such hanging streams heavily load the network when there are a lot of them.

For download streams from Youtube i use last version yutube-dl and use command string like this:
youtube-dl.exe --hls-use-mpegts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX

Why some streams not ended correctly and how fix it? I can set some limit for this?

I REALLY tried to find the answer to my question and did not find it! If you think that this problem is described and solved - then PLEASE post here a link to this solution. It is very difficult for me to write in English, which does not detract from the importance of my communication.

P.s. I have a suspicion that this happens to streams that have been deleted

[marabu88]

Only i have this problem? No any ideas how fix it?

[dstftw]

There is not enough context for any reasoning. Anyway Last message repeated comes from ffmpeg so you may ask there. Closing for now.

[marabu88]

I think this is a problem with YouTube, not ffmpeg or youtube-dl. but you can somehow automatically stop recording after a certain number of repetitions ???
if you want to reproduce this problem - just record any random streams of users. It often happens that the broadcast is complete, but YouTube continues to play a static picture. I think that this is what leads to this behavior.

[marabu88]

ffmpeg have any parameters to force the recording of the stream to stop after a certain repetition of messages? and can i set these parameters in the youtube-dl command line?
 

[ZuyingWo]

here is what I did. Hoping it can be your reference.

In my local environment, this happens when FFMPEG is called to merge audio and video files.

when I download youtube via urls, most audio tracks are saved as "webm" file, and most video tracks are "mp4" file.

And this ERROR always occurs when ffmpeg merging "webm" and "mp4".

I don't know why, but audio and video are merged successfully when I convert "webm" file to "m4a" file at first, and then merge "m4a" and "mp4".
Here are the commands I used.

ffmpeg -i xxxxxx.webm -vn xxxxxx.m4a
ffmpeg -i xxxxxx.mp4 -i xxxxxxx.m4a -c copy xxxxxxx.mov