What am I doing wrong: Unable to get 480p from YouTube #9865
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It's downloading the format |
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So the order matters? ... Just switch the order? Ok. |
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Yes, if the first selector is available it chooses it, otherwise it fallbacks to the second. Although we may add something like |
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Alright, I'm running into an issue with this. Again, what am I doing wrong? Notice that it says, What did I do wrong here? How is an audio and video not compatible? |
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It's not an issue. It tells you that mp4 video and webm audio can only be merged into mkv and not into the original container. |
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Ahh. Perhaps a less worrysome warning message then? I saw it wasn't turning into an mp4 and figured I had an error in my arguments |
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Like what? It clearly states what happens and what will happen next. |
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How about For that matter, why is it not possible to combine the video and audio into an mp4? (I really don't know -- what makes webm audio different? I thought webm was a video format that browsers supported natively) |
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For that matter, is there a way to fetch the DASH 480p, and audio, from youtube, as an mp4, or does it have to turn into a mkv? What is the difference between mp4 and mk4? (I'm sure that VLC can handle either :-) |
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Ahh foo. It ... failed? It resumed, got to 100%, and then aborted with a timeout error. It downloaded the f135.mp4, which I'm assuming is the 480p DASH video, but there's no final file. And, not only is there no audio on playback, but attempting to seek while playing back in VLC will not actually skip forward. The "slider knob" jumps back to where I was. (So, trying to skip to the 15 minute mark brings me back to the first few seconds). |
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If it's normal then there should not be any message at all.
Because it's technically impossible. Both mp4/webm are media containers that supports only particular codecs. Google.
See format selection in FAQ. |
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I've read that section multiple times. I thought I understood it. So far, I've found that the order matters, and I had to re-arrange things, and I still don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Maybe a better question then: How can I ask for the best audio format that can be put into the video that I'm fetching -- so if I'm fetching an mp4, the best audio that can go into the mp4? |
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I've no idea what you have read multiple times and how but the very first example does exactly that: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#format-selection-examples. |
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This? ... to say "First attempt a 480p mp4 video; next, take the best of any quality up to 480p; otherwise, take the best single-file format up to 480p; and finally, if there's nothing down at 480p, take the smallest available one". Is that correct? ... Up until now, I couldn't imagine why you'd ever want "worst", but now I'm seeing that I need to ask for it in the "nothing small over here" hosting case. |
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Well, that almost works. It now downloads the video, and the audio, and merges them. The ffmpeg to merge them returns almost immediately. BUT: It will download the video, then fail to download the audio (with the timeout message mentioned earlier). A second invocation will download the audio, merge them together, then download the next video on the playlist, and then fail when the audio of that next video times out. Details: |
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I'm unable to download 480p videos from youtube.
I don't want to spend the disk space / bandwidth for 720p's, and 360p's lack sufficient detail in many cases.
That should be straight forward. Best that is 480, otherwise, best video that is 480, combined with best audio. Subtitles if there. Make it mp4 if it was flv.
So ... Yea, this has an 854x480 version. DASH mp4 format. Video only. Plus audio. So what I want is there, right?
So what am I doing wrong?
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