Youtube to mp3 in 320k

[sanishan]

I have both ffmpeg and avconv both are return same result.

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --audio-quality 320k --extract-audio --no-part --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$id. ' --restrict-filenames -o "mp3/%(id)s.mp3" unable to convert into 320k but always return 128k mp3

Also i have tried everything.

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --audio-quality 0 --extract-audio --no-part --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$id. ' --restrict-filenames -o "mp3/%(id)s.mp3"

Always same result dose any body now how to fix it.

[iggyvolz]

What the heck are you doing here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$id. '
I'm guessing you're usually a PHP programmer... in Bash the variables substitute before anything is done, so you should just do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
(you may need to put {} around id depending on your shell)

[sanishan]

I think you did no understand,

[code]
exec('/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --audio-format best --no-part --extract-audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$id. ' --restrict-filenames -o "mp3/%(id)s.m4a" > /dev/null', $output,$return_var);
[/code]

did i am doing something wrong? and please keep in mind video is downloading perfectly so there is no any code problem.

Thanks,

[iggyvolz]

Ah, my mistake. I thought you were calling it in native bash, but you're using PHP.

[sanishan]

That's good, so dose any body have any solution to convert into 320k without calling ffmepg again?

Thanks,

[treaki]

just write the video into a temp file and do the post progressing by yourself using ffmpeg, mencoder or lame

[sanishan]

yep.. right know i am doing this..

Thanks,

[treaki]

ive did an quick and ugly test, it is working:

https://github.com/treaki/youtube2mp3

[treaki]

let me see your solution

[sanishan]

well i am doing little bit different,

First i am download m4a and then run 2nd run ffmpeg to convert into mp3

Thanks,

[treaki]

would be a good idea to safe trafic but it looks like youtube dosnt provide audio only:

$ youtube-dl -f m4a SomeYTID
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] SomeYTID: Downloading webpage
[youtube] SomeYTID: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] SomeYTID: Extracting video information
ERROR: requested format not available

so you have to take the hard way and download the video

[sanishan]

i have created a small script which log the error (for request format errors). only i can see is the restricted video log only.

So far 2000+ videos is downloaded since last 7 day from my website. all m4a found.

If you know any youtube id which did not have m4a then i can test it properly and change my code to video only.

Thanks,

[phihag]

Can you elaborate how you find out that the bitrate didn't match? Your command is equivalent to the one youtube-dl is invoking. It works fine for me:

$ youtube-dl 8zbg_M6C6V8 -o 'test.%(ext)s' -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320k
$ mplayer -ao none -identify test.mp3 | grep BITRATE
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=320000
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=320000

By the way, if you want youtube-dl to download just an audio file, pass in -f bestaudio, not -f m4a.