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Support format fallback (was: ERROR: giving up after 10 retries) #3721
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Elite
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Sep 11, 2014
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The download url in your output appears to be invalid. However, it downloads fine for me from a different download url. When I tried to add
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The url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzA8aBaRNc opens fine in web-browser. |
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This works perfectly fine for me: $ youtube-dl -f 137+140 -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzA8aBaRNc Can you try with the latest version? |
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The original example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzA8aBaRNc now works fine. Here another example from #10310: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPW4-JUIPys. As of writing, format 251 reports HTTP 500 error. In Firefox, the YouTube player first tries format 251, and then fallback to format 140 after the first failure. youtube-dl should support fallback, too. |
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Same Problem here (with 2017.01.25):
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Video succeeds, audio fails (Internal Server Error 500):
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Same here with youtube-dl 2017.09.02 output Upd today the download finished without an issue, might be a temporary issue from youtube side. |
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Here is my output. If the video was recently streamed, sometimes the "best" format isn't available for a while. When I choose another format the download starts and the error message 404 is gone. Browsers deal well with this issue choosing the next available format:
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What's the current state of this issue? Is this at least confirmed by a contributor? |
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Also, how were I supposed to find this title, @dstftw? |
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Yes, has been confirmed by a contributor in the past, why? |
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Why the format 22 fails with this error while for example format 18 works fine? Can I support this ticket to debug with someone of maintainers? |