David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: > [..] >> ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a >> valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl >> "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to >> search YouTube >> [youtube] byTOZIvyXPo: Downloading webpage > Please run again with -v, such as: > > $ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTOZIvyXPo > > and then check at the top for the lines: > > [debug] System config: [] > [debug] User config: [ .. THIS IS WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN .. ] > [debug] Custom config: [] > [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', > u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPxJK4drcc'] > [..] > [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20 > > and mail them here ... One should see there how yt-dl parses your > config and hopefully what goes wrong with it. > > HTH, > -dnh >
Finally getting thing back to normal. Been checking out the quality of new power supply and the age of my mobo. Mobo is 7 years old. May start digging around for one of those soon. o_0 Searched for test video and grabbed the first hit. Here is the complete output. dale@fireball ~/Desktop $ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: ['ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best'] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-i', '-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1 [debug] Python version 3.7.9 (CPython) - Linux-5.6.7-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8350_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.7 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to search YouTube Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2277, in _real_extract % (url, url), expected=True) youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to search YouTube [youtube] C0DPdy98e4c: Downloading webpage [debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. [debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-5uaeznd7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1603948129&ei=AfqZX8i_DJPqigTpkoDYAw&ip=74.188.248.51&id=o-AH8t98t1pWRhfF0y-tZC-qs49qI_zvZaKyBkU50HBe2G&itag=244&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C278%2C394%2C395%2C396%2C397&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=m8&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5uaeznd7%2Csn-q4flrn7s&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=20&initcwndbps=1165000&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&clen=294311&dur=16.560&lmt=1449553649983144&mt=1603926401&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAKZU6AYMDnJ3MkiGZrpNIARGZ1wcxQIuhv8RefWrUPJEAiBIWn9PA40XVnnUclzEp_nV18Ah1PswHBQjNzNtA0Negg%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAKvXqCZKwVUndAMo_5bv6VxIvB7fMndYKg1QSCR0Tqu2AiEAp32rZZE_hPo5cb1uRjg4PozYqTvXkkjWIaPEj7A9aog%3D&ratebypass=yes' [download] Destination: TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm [download] 100% of 287.41KiB in 00:02 [debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-5uaeznd7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1603948129&ei=AfqZX8i_DJPqigTpkoDYAw&ip=74.188.248.51&id=o-AH8t98t1pWRhfF0y-tZC-qs49qI_zvZaKyBkU50HBe2G&itag=140&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=m8&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-5uaeznd7%2Csn-q4flrn7s&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=20&initcwndbps=1165000&vprv=1&mime=audio%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=280597&dur=17.600&lmt=1509088061399864&mt=1603926401&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIgZi7NlmQITSpxyahnu-mmF0TTQU4tTrjKNeNypYfUZS0CIQC25F6S6QoiRZ8g7HJf5HI1Ch6GBVpTS8QogQBmpR4xWA%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAKvXqCZKwVUndAMo_5bv6VxIvB7fMndYKg1QSCR0Tqu2AiEAp32rZZE_hPo5cb1uRjg4PozYqTvXkkjWIaPEj7A9aog%3D&ratebypass=yes' [download] Destination: TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a [download] 100% of 274.02KiB in 00:02 [ffmpeg] Merging formats into "TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.mkv" [debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm' -i 'file:TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 'file:TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.temp.mkv' Deleting original file TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f244.webm (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file TEST VIDEO-C0DPdy98e4c.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep) dale@fireball ~/Desktop $ So you don't have to look back to old message, conf file again. --format 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' Question. I have other lines in there that I commented out using the usual #. Is that correct or does it use some other character for comments? Maybe is is seeing those lines as active when I don't want them to be?? Other than that, I see the options in the user config line above. It's seeing it at least. Thoughts? Dale :-) :-)
