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Twitch no longer offering "Source/live" quality level #6115

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TheRyuu opened this issue Jun 28, 2015 · 2 comments
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Twitch no longer offering "Source/live" quality level #6115

TheRyuu opened this issue Jun 28, 2015 · 2 comments

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@TheRyuu TheRyuu commented Jun 28, 2015

When using youtube-dl Twitch doesn't seem to be offering the highest quality level anymore which would be "Source" in a browser and I believe was labeled "live" as the format code. It becomes apparent when you watch a twitch vod in a browser then again using mpv+youtube-dl where the quality of the latter is worse. I'm not sure exactly when this stopped working but I've tried older versions of youtube-dl and the result is the same which makes me think something changed on Twitch's end causing this.

Output of youtube-dl.exe with -v. I believe previously there was a "live" quality option as well. This occurs with all twitch vods I've tested. I have not tried an actual live stream but I believe those also have this same problem.

youtube-dl.exe -v --list-formats http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/v/6528877
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--list-formats', u'http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/v/6528877']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.06.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitch:vod] 6528877: Downloading vod info JSON
[twitch:vod] 6528877: Downloading vod access token
[twitch:vod] 6528877: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for v6528877:
format code  extension  resolution note
meta         mp4        multiple   Quality selection URL
Mobile       mp4        unknown     280k , avc1, mp4a
Low          mp4        unknown     628k , avc1, mp4a
Medium       mp4        unknown     893k , avc1, mp4a
High         mp4        unknown    1603k , avc1, mp4a  (best)

Not sure if I have to put this in here but the expected result would be for the source/live quality option to be available and selected as the the best quality level. I looked through some of the recent issues and didn't notice anything like this before creating this ticket.

@yan12125 yan12125 closed this in bb512e5 Jun 28, 2015
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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Jun 28, 2015

Thanks for the report. This issue will be fixed in the next version.

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@TheRyuu TheRyuu commented Jun 28, 2015

Well that was quick, nice.

I eagerly await a new Windows build to try it out again.

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