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[YouTube] HTTP 404 with automatic subtitles prevents download from completing #24269
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I have been trying to find a work around for this for days now. Saw you posted this days ago, was hoping it would have a fix by now. The issue for me is with youtube livestream videos. ydl will not recognize the auto subs until the video is finished streaming AND once youtube has converted it to a non HLS video container, usually taking hours for longer videos on youtube's end. Have you found any useful way to grab them in the interim? |
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I have found my own hacky workaround. Essentially I keep track of the subtitle languages that fail to download in the list I have never looked at nor touched the youtube-dl code base before this, so I will not pretend that this is the right solution or even a good one. I don't like the idea of changing the |
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Whenever I tell youtube-dl to download all automatic subtitles and embed them into the resulting video file if any of them fail to download the whole process fails. Would it be possible to either figure out why these URLs are returning HTTP 404 or adding a command line switch for youtube-dl to ignore them? The video URL that I'm trying to download is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO-euhzk4dQ.