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bestvideo and/or bestaudio select non-existent format codes for some YouTube videos #8977
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Duplicate of #3721. |
As in #8955, some videos fail to download with
ERROR: giving up after 10 retries, inspecting shows the format code that are attempted to download, 141 is not available on YouTube, yet youtube-dl formats still have the code available:Thus, downloading format
bestaudiofails:And the default
bestvideo+bestaudio/bestfails with the same error, shown in #8955.Either non-existent format codes should be removed from the format list or bestvideo & bestaudio should fallback to best existent format
(On a side node, format code
140exists and is not silent.)