Download pauses in the middle until user clicks [enter] key in command prompt

[mugenishere]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
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PROBLEM + SOLUTION FOR EVERYONE!

PROBLEM = command prompt gets stuck in between the download. Then I have to hit enter to get it to work again.

SOLUTION: Disable the quick-edit mode as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33883530/why-is-my-command-prompt-freezing-on-windows-10

Sure. It hangs somewhere in between. I don't remember the exact point. But it just waited there for an hour until I brought the focus to the command-prompt and then clicked [enter] key. Once I tapped it, it immediately continued. Here're the complete logs:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-o', 'C:/Mugen/videos/test.mp4', 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/qKP9ZujwUUQ', '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=480] + bestaudio/best[height<=480]']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2017-12-29-0c78b6a, ffprobe git-2017-12-29-0c78b6a
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] qKP9ZujwUUQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] qKP9ZujwUUQ: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] qKP9ZujwUUQ: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/sparams/as%2Cei%2Chfr%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cplayback_host%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire/mn/sn-ci5gup-cag6%2Csn-ci5gup-h55z/id/a8a3fd66e8f05144/expire/1555457897/source/youtube/mv/m/ms/au%2Crdu/ip/122.171.163.242/key/yt6/itag/0/ipbits/0/mt/1555436266/initcwndbps/692500/requiressl/yes/hfr/all/playback_host/r5---sn-ci5gup-cag6.googlevideo.com/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/ei/CRO2XJr1DKmB3LUPtKOL-Ak/fvip/5/mm/31%2C29/signature/C6D298024E9127DA7D540E7D71B85DD88D309ABF.9B04166760DACC6676B2360954AAA3D2E7965429/pl/20'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 86
[download] Destination: C:/Mugen/videos/test.f135.mp4
[download] 79.1% of ~20.88MiB at 2.65MiB/s ETA 00:28

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I've got some automation going on in which I invoke youtube-dl by starting a command-prompt and pass it a bunch of parameters.

• Param for the video/audio quality (because I don't want to download too big file sizes)
• Param for the destination location + file name

In the whole process, it keeps downloading the videos with various launches. However, every now and then it gets stuck in-between. It's more like it's gone to sleep mode. Once this happens then it can even be hours before it resumes again. I need to select the command prompt with my mouse and then hit an [enter] key.

***Another important observation: ***
I think that the command prompt goes into this "select" mode as described over here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33883530/why-is-my-command-prompt-freezing-on-windows-10

I'm currently trying out this solution. Will update this thread again if it reproduces. If it doesn't, then the correct solution for this issue is as described in the link. We need to disable quick-edit mode for cmd.

[dstftw]

Totally unrelated to youtube-dl as described by your link.

[mugenishere]

Yes. It is unrelated. But I'm pretty sure that someone else is going to come across this issue and I hope that this ticket serves as a placeholder to direct them to the right solution.

An update from my side. I tried out the solution in the link and it's working fine. youtube-dl (aka whatever application is running in cmd prompt) does not hang by itself anymore.