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Kethsar / ytarchive

Garbage Youtube livestream downloader
MIT License
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[question] Is it possible to stop and get video during downloading? #195

Closed roeniss closed 6 months ago

roeniss commented 6 months ago

When the live streaming is going on, I want to stop the downloading because I get the moment that I needed. But the files are currently like this:

4Bk7i9tnABC.f140.state
4Bk7i9tnABC.f299.state

I wonder is it possible to stop here and convert the .state files into playable video. Of course I just want to watch the moment that I downloaded from and to.

Kethsar commented 6 months ago

You can stop it and let it merge what you've downloaded, but you won't be able to resume recording and would have to re-archive from the start if you want to download the stream again. Maybe some day I'll work on #36 but I personally never end up having need for it, so motivation is rather low. Also the .state files do not contain any of the actual video/audio data.