avconv

[eone1000]

$ youtube-dl --version
2014.12.12.1

$ uname -a
Linux rpipro 3.12.28+ #709 PREEMPT Mon Sep 8 15:28:00 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA&list=RDHC1yXpM9Oi66A

[youtube] vWz9VN40nCA: Extracting video information
[youtube] vWz9VN40nCA: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Olivia Newton-John - Physical-vWz9VN40nCA.m4a
[download] 100% of 6.80MiB in 00:02
[avconv] Destination: Olivia Newton-John - Physical-vWz9VN40nCA.mp3
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.

How to fix the warning about "avconv is outdated"?

I tried the following but failed:
$ sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libav-tools is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.

Thanks in advance.

[phihag]

What output do you get when run avconv-version? Also, which distribution is this? Can you post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list?

[eone1000]

Hi

$ avconv -version
avconv version 9.14-6:9.14-1rpi1rpi1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
built on Jul 22 2014 15:08:12 with gcc 4.6 (Debian 4.6.3-14+rpi1)
avconv 9.14-6:9.14-1rpi1rpi1
libavutil 52. 3. 0 / 52. 3. 0
libavcodec 54. 35. 0 / 54. 35. 0
libavformat 54. 20. 4 / 54. 20. 4
libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
libavfilter 3. 3. 0 / 3. 3. 0
libavresample 1. 0. 1 / 1. 0. 1
libswscale 2. 1. 1 / 2. 1. 1

Distribution is Raspbian OS running Raspberry Pi

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi

[Showfom]

Same problem on Ubuntu 14.04

[falimero]

same probleme in Debian wheezy

[Showfom]

I have solved this problem by using this ppa

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

[falimero]

solve the error but still error when dowload video like. Can get a full video f 137+140...

[Showfom]

@falimero I have no problem with -f 137+141

[falimero]

the video still get the name with SYNCHRONIZED prefix. and only 19 Mb
rw-r--r-- 1 falimero falimero 19734751 déc. 14 20:51 SYNCHRONIZED [60 FPS]-5xG8dHAR0eA.mp4

[Tailszefox]

I got the error as well because my avconv was just a symlink to ffmpeg, hence it was serving the ffmpeg version when asked, making youtube-dl think it was outdated. If you have the same issue, or if you have both installed, you can also try using the --prefer-ffmpeg option (--prefer-avconv being the default).

[falimero]

same error ....
$youtube-dl -f 137+140 5xG8dHAR0eA --prefer-ffmpeg
[...]
WARNING: Your copy of ffmpeg is outdated, update ffmpeg to version 1.0 or newer if you encounter any errors.
ERROR: Failed to set value 'copy' for option 'c'

[phihag]

Please bear in mind that this is just a warning, not an error. We have had multiple reports of older ffmpeg versions leading to problems - it may still work fine though.

@falimero Your problem does not seem to be the warning. Please open a new issue. Please include the full output you get when running youtube-dl, what you expected, and what you observed. For more tips on effective bug reporting, you may also want to reread our bug reporting guidelines.

[ekremkaraca]

I also get the warning on Ubuntu Trusty, even using mc3mans repo in active. Using --prefer-avconv each time is gonna make me bored & tired. Could we add this option in a file like .youtube-dlrc?

[yan12125]

@ekremkaraca I think https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#configuration is helpful.

[ekremkaraca]

Oops, seems I've missed this one, thanks so much @yan12125!

[rodrigoreis22]

Why is youtube-dl downloading 2 files for this video.. and it seems that the final mp4 file is just audio.

When I run locally on my MacOS, this doesn't happen. When it's running on the server (iron.io) I see this problem.

[youtube] QC2kYBm2zMU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] QC2kYBm2zMU: Extracting video information
[youtube] QC2kYBm2zMU: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: QC2kYBm2zMU.f137.mp4

[download] 0.0% of 103.52MiB at 389.70KiB/s ETA 04:37
[download] 0.0% of 103.52MiB at 1.03MiB/s ETA 01:40
[download] 0.0% of 103.52MiB at 2.23MiB/s ETA 00:46
[download] 0.0% of 103.52MiB at 4.24MiB/s ETA 00:24
[download] 0.0% of 103.52MiB at 8.00MiB/s ETA 00:12
[download] 0.1% of 103.52MiB at 4.40MiB/s ETA 00:23
[download] 0.1% of 103.52MiB at 4.84MiB/s ETA 00:21
[download] 0.2% of 103.52MiB at 6.95MiB/s ETA 00:14
[download] 0.5% of 103.52MiB at 10.51MiB/s ETA 00:09
[download] 1.0% of 103.52MiB at 15.94MiB/s ETA 00:06
[download] 1.9% of 103.52MiB at 18.94MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 3.9% of 103.52MiB at 26.18MiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 7.7% of 103.52MiB at 27.16MiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 11.6% of 103.52MiB at 12.93MiB/s ETA 00:07
[download] 15.5% of 103.52MiB at 14.02MiB/s ETA 00:06
[download] 19.3% of 103.52MiB at 10.38MiB/s ETA 00:08
[download] 23.2% of 103.52MiB at 11.44MiB/s ETA 00:06
[download] 27.0% of 103.52MiB at 12.78MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 30.9% of 103.52MiB at 10.67MiB/s ETA 00:06
[download] 34.8% of 103.52MiB at 11.47MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 38.6% of 103.52MiB at 10.99MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 42.5% of 103.52MiB at 11.13MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 46.4% of 103.52MiB at 11.59MiB/s ETA 00:04
[download] 50.2% of 103.52MiB at 9.51MiB/s ETA 00:05
[download] 53.1% of 103.52MiB at 9.99MiB/s ETA 00:04
[download] 57.0% of 103.52MiB at 10.55MiB/s ETA 00:04
[download] 60.9% of 103.52MiB at 9.97MiB/s ETA 00:04
[download] 64.7% of 103.52MiB at 10.21MiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 68.6% of 103.52MiB at 9.99MiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 72.5% of 103.52MiB at 9.37MiB/s ETA 00:03
[download] 76.3% of 103.52MiB at 9.75MiB/s ETA 00:02
[download] 80.2% of 103.52MiB at 9.66MiB/s ETA 00:02
[download] 84.1% of 103.52MiB at 9.02MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 87.8% of 103.52MiB at 9.35MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 91.6% of 103.52MiB at 9.65MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 95.5% of 103.52MiB at 9.64MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 99.3% of 103.52MiB at 9.76MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of 103.52MiB at 9.81MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of 103.52MiB in 00:10
[download] Destination: QC2kYBm2zMU.f141.m4a
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.

[download] 0.0% of 8.09MiB at 753.02KiB/s ETA 00:11
[download] 0.0% of 8.09MiB at 1.87MiB/s ETA 00:04
[download] 0.1% of 8.09MiB at 3.49MiB/s ETA 00:02
[download] 0.2% of 8.09MiB at 6.24MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 0.4% of 8.09MiB at 11.17MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 0.8% of 8.09MiB at 4.42MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 1.5% of 8.09MiB at 4.91MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 3.1% of 8.09MiB at 6.89MiB/s ETA 00:01
[download] 6.2% of 8.09MiB at 9.95MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 12.4% of 8.09MiB at 14.92MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 24.7% of 8.09MiB at 21.62MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 49.4% of 8.09MiB at 35.50MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 98.9% of 8.09MiB at 3.35MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of 8.09MiB at 3.39MiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of 8.09MiB in 00:02
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "QC2kYBm2zMU.mp4"
Deleting original file QC2kYBm2zMU.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file QC2kYBm2zMU.f141.m4a (pass -k to keep)

[jaimeMF]

Open a new issue with the output you get with the --verbose option, you should also read the last paragraph of the format selection docs.

[eMPee584]

The warning also comes up when using the avconv provided by ffmpeg:

ffmpeg version 2.7.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security ' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-libvpx --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-avfilter --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-decoder=amrnb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libaacplus --libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu --disable-vda --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-frei0r --enable-openssl --enable-libass --enable-libopus --enable-fontconfig --enable-libpulse --disable-mips32r2 --disable-mipsdspr1 --disable-mipsdspr2 --enable-libvidstab --enable-libzvbi --enable-avresample --disable-htmlpages --disable-podpages --enable-libutvideo --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libx265 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-vaapi --enable-libdc1394 --disable-altivec --shlibdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
libavutil      54. 27.100 / 54. 27.100
libavcodec     56. 41.100 / 56. 41.100
libavformat    56. 36.100 / 56. 36.100
libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
libavfilter     5. 16.101 /  5. 16.101
libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
libswresample   1.  2.100 /  1.  2.100
libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100

[b1nch3f]

I'm not sure how much of help it would be, but this solved the issue in my computer, http://askubuntu.com/questions/563245/avconv-warning-while-downloading-youtube-video