youtube-dl -g, gives me always two separate links of audio and video

[dennmtr]

after december update i dont know how, youtube-dl stopped giving me a unique video and audio link to use. always separate links of audio and video . i cant work like this, i need it for scripts in debian. windows version keeps working fine. note, i have no configuration files at all. i removed and install everything again. debian release: raspbian jessie. keep it in mind

[phihag]

This is correct behavior - by default, youtube-dl will pick the best quality, and sometimes that happens to be a video + an audio stream. Pass in -f best to explicitly select the single best format (i.e. one which contains both video and audio).

[dennmtr]

fine! but i didnt use this option in the past. why now? thank you

[phihag]

Previously, the best quality of the videos you tested may have been in a single file, instead of multiple ones.

[dennmtr]

maybe, but i had no problems at all two years with no options (only -g). windows version keeps working the same without any option too. btw the problem solved and that is the point :)

[phihag]

youtube-dl has the same behavior on Windows. Most likely, you have not installed avconv or ffmpeg on Windows, or incorrectly configured them. Once you do, youtube-dl will notice and may return multiple links on Windows too.

[dennmtr]

for some reason avconv was removed... everything is ok after installing without any option! I have a warning message, but even that the direct links are single as i want them "Your copy of avconv is outdated and unable to properly mux separate video and audio files, youtube-dl will download single file media. Update avconv to version 10-0 or newer to fix this." I just ignore Dist: Raspbian Jessie