On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:14:37 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 21:58, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using the normal youtube-dl <link to video> command. No options or > > anything. This is what I have in the conf file. > > > > > > --format > > bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?128 > > 0]+bestaudio/best > > > > --merge-output-format mp4 > > > > > > Those options worked for a long time so I guess something changed with > > youtube-dl. I don't get why it says the options are a URL either. When > > I google, I can't find where anyone is getting this error or using > > different options either, at least not to accomplish the same goal. I > > I took a quick look at the commit history, and it seems the > documentation for the format options haven't changed in at least a > year, so it's hard to say if it is actually youtube-dl being the > culprit here. > > Might be a quoting problem. Have you changed or updated anything > regarding your terminal emulator lately? > > Maybe run your command with the verbose flag (-v) and see if it tells > you the full command it is trying to run. Notice in the docs the whole > format string is quoted with single quotes. > > Regards, > Arve
Occasionally the youtube-dl on the tree is not totally up-to-date with the latest and greatest in git. You can wait for a day or two and see if it gets updated in portage testing branch, or download it from git and run it from within a directory. Theoretically, your config can run into trouble if the container format you have set to merge video and audio into, will not work with the video/audio extractors available on the stream. You have specified: "--merge-output-format mp4" If the available codex for video or audio is not suitable for the mp4 container, you are going to get an error. For example, if a stream only has bestvideo in a VP9 codec at width 1280, and/or best audio in opus codec, this will barf if you try to merge it into a mp4 container without transcoding the video and/or audio streams using codecs compatible with mp4, instead of merging (copying) them into webm (mkv) as they come. Hence it throws a wobbly back at you and asks you to run a search in case there is some URL with video/audio streams in codecs which will satisfy your mp4 container format requirement. I don't think the single/double quote is an issue for Linux. In MSWindows you ought to use double quotes.
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