Public bug reported: Binary package hint: clive
Clive (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clive/ & http://home.gna.org/clive/) is "a video extraction tool for user- uploaded video hosts such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba and Metacafe. It can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and playing and playing." I've been having nothing but problems with Clive until I compiled 0.4.8 from stratch. It's much improved and holds a lot of bug fixes... 0.4.9 will handle Here's the changlog difference between 0.4.3 and 0.4.8: * Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override * Metacafe family-filter override * Dailymotion log-in support ----- Trackers ================================================================= Bugs: browse: https://gna.org/bugs/?group=clive submit: https://gna.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=clive Feedback: browse: https://gna.org/support/?group=clive submit: https://gna.org/support/?func=additem&group=clive Version 0.4.8 [2008-03-31] ================================================================= +new !fix ~change -remove | focus: minor bugfixes + Youtube: HTTP/415 No media fallback Extract low quality (flv) video if better quality (mp4) is not available. ! Youtube: Partial support for continuing transfers It is now be possible to continue partial downloads as long as they are high-quality (mp4) videos. Note that this fails utterly for the flv videos. It appears urlgrabber appends a complete file at the end of the existing file when the host refuses to continue transfer. Instead of bloating the code with the conditions, continuing the youtube flv file transfers remains disabled. ! Dailymotion: improved media support clive no more assumes 512x384 is the highest available quality. The video page is now parsed for best available quality which clive extracts unless the --low-quality option is being used. It should be noted that most videos appear to have only the low-quality (flv) video available. No media warning will be displayed if high quality video is not found and the low quality video is extracted instead. ! Transfer rate calculations File length offset is now used properly with files that are being overwritten. This fixes the only-progress-percentage odditity is being displayed. ! Youtube: New error messages "error: country restriction/censorship" "error: private video" ! --check-update,-u Crash at: "TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)" ~ Reduce progress stdout flickering (sr #1944) Progress is now rendered in one second intervals. clive will now also display average transfer rate and total time elapsed when the transfer completes. ~ Clean up clive(1), INSTALL etc. Version 0.4.7 [2008-03-17] ================================================================= +new !fix ~change -remove | focus: major feature enhancements NOTE: Much of the existing code was rewritten, cleaned up or otherwise modified. Expect bugs. Please report them at the the above URL. Thanks. + GNU Autotools support See the INSTALL file for the updated installation details. + urlgrabber integration The urlgrabber module is now part of the source code distribution. For more info, please read the README file. Downstream maintainers: urlgrabber module is no longer a prerequisite + Cache If caching is enabled, clive will collect data about visited URLs to a sqlite3 database file (~/.clive/cache). Note that cache is only available for Python >= 2.5. Also, depending on the system, the sqlite3 may not be installed with Python by default, e.g. on FreeBSD you need to install it separately (databases/py-sqlite3). Added also --no-cache and enable_cache. Caching is enabled by default. + Youtube: new default format clive now defaults to extract the better quality (mp4) videos from Youtube. The default behaviour can be overridden with the --low-quality option. + "Paste" option displayed at program start The state for "paste from xclip" is now displayed when the program starts. ! Same output filename in URL batch clive did not previously check the URLs in current batch for same output filename. For example: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4505462782975458603 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4505462782975458603 Both URLs point to the same video, note the different TLD. If they were fed to clive in same URL batch the program accepted them without any scrutiny. This resulted clive to waste bandwidth downloading the same file twice and overwriting the previously extracted video file. clive now generates (--exist=rename) a new output filename for the last URL. ! Dailymotion support clive will now attempt to extract the higher resolution vide (mp4) _only_ if it is available. This was causing HTTP/404 errors for some dmotion URLs with the previous release. The new option --low-quality overrides this default behaviour. ! Status/progress stdout line breaking on some system configurations This was caused by improper use of '\b' which would cause the lines to break on some terminal emulation settings. ! Calculations for resumed transfers (patch #990) The transfer rate calculations should no longer go berzerk for resumed transfers. "The problem is that when urlgrabber calls update(), the 'read' parameter is the current size of the file. When you resume, you need to discard the offset from the previous download or else the calculations will be off." -- zythmer ~ clive(1) The manual page was rewritten. ~ Accept-encoding is now always set to gzip Removed the rather useless --no-gzip option from wasting space. Note that compression is only used if the host supports it. ~ Configuration file format The configuration file format has undergone several iterations of changes over the last 12 months and this release introduces yet another format. Wait for it. This one's final. For a comparison: Then: {.., 'verbose':1, ..} Now: enable_verbose="YES" To get started, you can generate a "template" configuration file with: % clive --write-conf The created file contains comments and all supported commands. clive will also attempt to autodetect the 3rd party programs such as ffmpeg and set the paths to these programs with recommended options. ~ File name changes in ~/.clive config.py -> config last.log -> recall userdef.py -> custom.py Note that since history is no longer used, the ~/.clive/history.log is now obsolete and can be removed if it's still around. ~ Option --write-conf Previously known as --conf-write. Writes the config file with default program values. clive will now attempt to autodetect vlc, ffmpeg and xclip. ~ Option --emit Renamed to "--emit-csv". Standard output format was also changed. From: video: "extraction-url" "filename" "length"\n To: OK: "url","extraction-url","filename","length"\n FAILED: "url","error-message"\n Should be now more parsing-friendly. ~ Options changed Much of the options were either renamed, merged, removed or otherwise modified. Some new short options were added also. ~ Renamed --simulate Renamed --simulate,-s to --no-extract,-n. ~ Tweaked warnings Some of the warnings were rewritten. ~ Stdout overhaul Much of the stdout messages were changed, e.g. "status:" and similar were replaced with lines that make better use of the line space. ~ Options displayed at program start Renamed "throttle" to "rate". Renamed "exists" to "exist". ~ sys.platform instead of platform.uname Platform string is now constructed using the platform module. - Logging features More or less replaced by the new "cache" and "recall" features. See also "File name changes" above. - GUI features: --configure, --history Rather than transforming clive into a CLI-GUI hybrid, I've decided to remove the GUI elements. The code to these short-lived features could still be reused for a GUI-only clive configruation tool later if there's any demand for it. Downstream maintainers: Tkinter is no longer used by clive. - Mswindows support Anyone familiar with the woe32 specific non-standard approach to everything can probably relate to this, and even if python hides much of the mswindows nonsense, I've decided not to bother myself with it anymore. So instead of bloating the code base with a set of conditions and exceptions for woe32, I've, hereby, removed all of the ms-platform specific nonsense from the project. Come to the unix side. - distutils support (setup.py) Starting from this release, clive uses GNU Autotools. - stage6 support Shut down service effective February 28, 2008 (http://www.stage6.com/blog/107/). Version 0.4.6 [2008-02-20] ================================================================= Focus: Bugfixes New: Added empty string checks for various options Read also the notes about "Various crashes with empty strings". Chg: Cleaned up clive/opts.py --play,--player,--ffmpeg,--re-encode code Option checking is now longer but should be less tedious to follow. Corrected also a minor logic error within the checks. Fix: Various crashes with empty strings read from ~/.clive/config.py clive was unable to handle option strings that were empty, for example if config.py defined 'output_mask' as '', the program would crash. This bug was easy to reproduce with the --conf-write option which sets many of the strings to ''. Fix: --player, --ffmpeg options not used warnings Nag no more. The warnings show up only if --play,--re-encode are being used without --player,--ffmpeg. Version 0.4.5 [2008-02-15] ================================================================= Focus: Bugfixes Fix: AttributeError: Nomad instance has no attribute '_log_clear' (>= 0.4.4) Calling clive with the `--log-clear' caused the program to crash. Fix: incorrect queue total mb (>= 0.4.4) A bug resulted the program to report incorrect total MB for a download queue. Fix: dmotion; extraction failure (< 0.4.5) Due to the changes made to the website, clive was unable to locate the video extraction URL from the page HTML resulting to the "extraction url not found" error. Fix: mcafe; stdout garbage due to 18+ verification (>= 0.4.2) This fix pipes down the stdout gibberish produced due to the age verification click fest on a video page. Chg: exit if `--log-recall' fails The program now exits if the last.log file does not exist. Chg: dmotion; extract mp4/512x384 instead of flv/320x240 In favor for better video quality. Version 0.4.4 [2008-02-01] ================================================================= Focus: Major feature enhancements New: --configure; complete GUI overhaul Going for more compact layout. New: --conf-write Writes ~/.clive/config.py with default values. Useful for those who want to edit the file manually as the created file contains a complete list of supported configuration variables/keys. New: --simulate, -s Simulate only, do not extract any videos. New: --history Added the 'Last Batch' group for ~/.clive/last.log with 'Recall' and 'Clear' functions. New: lastfm/youtube support "Last.fm recently added a video feature which appears to be a simple wrapping of YouTube videos, and the YouTube id appears in the Last.fm URL. The attached patch finds it from URLs like http://www.last.fm/music/Sylver/+videos/+1-fVD2TfSGkaw"; -- Seth W. (Jzalae) Klein See also: https://gna.org/support/index.php?1873 Fix: --history; bind wm_delete_window Hitting the corner X now prompts for saving the changes (if any). Chg: renamed console command "q_r_last" to "q_r_recall" Chg: tweaked console help strings Chg: renamed some of the config.py keys/variables - from_clipb -> paste - last -> log_recall - clear_logs -> log_clear Chg: moved scripts/clive:Clive class to clive/main.py scripts/clive contains now only the program entry point which creates a Clive instance. Chg: removed the avi/mpg restrictions It is now possible set both `--play' and `--re-encode' options to anything. clive does not check those options for 'src', 'mpg' or 'avi' anymore. For example: % clive --ffmpeg="ffmpeg -y -i %i %o" --re-encode=mp4 URL The responsiblity of making sure proper format (file extension) is being used lies now solely on the users' shoulders. So as long as ffmpeg supports the extension, it can be used with clive. Chg: long and short option name changes Some were renamed, others added. Help strings were updated. Chg: man/clive.1.gz -> man/clive.1 setup.py still produces clive.1.gz for bdist_rpm compatibility. The reason for the change was to remove the only remaining binary file from the SVN repository. Chg: man/clive.1 cleanup clive(1) should now be less tedious to read. Chg: removed "checking file length..." stdout message Less chatter. ** Affects: clive (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [NEEDS-UPGRADING] Clive 0.4.3 to (currently) 0.4.8 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211550 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
