Downloading ONLY AUDIO and not downloading video

[durai23]

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C:\cygwin64\home\synapse\scripts_youtube_dl>python proxy_disbalesslcheck_sleep_t
est.py --url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJPXVuqs2Y"
WARNING: Parameter outtmpl is bytes, but should be a unicode string. Put  from _
_future__ import unicode_literals  at the top of your code file or consider swit
ching to Python 3.x.
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.12.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:xxxxx', u'https': u'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:xxxxx'}
[youtube] CqJPXVuqs2Y: Downloading webpage
[youtube] CqJPXVuqs2Y: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: "id" field is not a string - forcing string conversion, there is an err
or in extractor
Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off
[info] Writing video description metadata as JSON to: Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2
Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.in
fo.json
[youtube] CqJPXVuqs2Y: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] CqJPXVuqs2Y: Writing thumbnail to: Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennife
r Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.jpg
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r2---sn-5hne6nsd.googlevideo.com/videop
layback?keepalive=yes&clen=5766928&gir=yes&key=yt6&signature=99756D8152D1F9E34E9
9B013376C6442C95E8AE2.493D9F9930B3439AEB12680399C5AF3CE55E774D&mime=audio%2Fmp4&
initcwndbps=1840000&lmt=1509849205067640&itag=140&expire=1544241663&ipbits=0&spa
rams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2
Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&source=youtu
be&dur=363.043&requiressl=yes&id=0aa24f5d5baab366&pl=25&mn=sn-5hne6nsd%2Csn-4g5e
6n7k&mm=31%2C26&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mt=1544219943&ip=81.171.74.80&ei=n-0KXI73AsTgVd
KGg4gC&c=WEB&fvip=2&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Sleeping 10 seconds...
[download] Destination: Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Ku
drow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.m4a
[download] 100% of 5.50MiB in 00:02
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston v
s. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.m4a"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i "file:Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jenn
ifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.m4a" -c
copy -f mp4 "file:Y:\yt2018\NA_NA\CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow i
n Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.temp.m4a"

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Hi,
I am using the python version.
NOTE: had to hide my private proxy with "xxxxx"s in the verbose output.
These are the arguments -

ydl_opts = {
'forcetitle':args.ttl,
'outtmpl':args.oloc,
'writethumbnail':True,
'writeinfojson':True,
'format': args.fmat,
'ignoreerrors':args.i,
'nooverwrites':args.w,
'verbose':True,
'proxy':"xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:xxxxx",
'sleep_interval':10,
'noplaylist':False,
}

I set the output template to the following (in Windows) :
"Y:\yt2018%(playlist_id)s_%(playlist_title)s%(id)s_%(title)s_%(upload_date)s_%(height)s_%(abr)s_%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"
and the file format to the following:
"bestvideo[ext=mp4][height=1080][height>=720],bestaudio[ext=m4a][abr<192]"

So, it should download 6 files for each youtube video -
VIDEO:thumbnail
VIDEO:json
VIDEO:mp4
AUDIO:thumbnail
AUDIO:json
AUDIO:m4a

I tried it on a playlist with 22 videos and it works for 15 videos. For the rest 7, it only downloads the 3 files related to the AUDIO. So then I tried it on a single video instead of a playlist and it produces the same behavior. this is the log from that. The above log is from the single video test. To be more specific -

The expected output files-

CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.jpg
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.m4a
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.info.json
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_1080_NA_137.jpg
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_1080_NA_137.mp4
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_1080_NA_137.info.json

The actually downloaded -

CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.jpg
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.m4a
CqJPXVuqs2Y_Jennifer Aniston vs. Lisa Kudrow in Celebrity Curse Off_20141125_NA_128_140.info.json

So, the 3 video related files don't download. Do you know what is going on?

Thanks.

[durai23]

Hi,
I figured it out. I think it is because of the format selection.
Thanks, you can close.