SponsorBlock settings not applied?

[francois072]

SponsorBlock does not seem to be applied to newly downloaded videos. Is anything wrong with my configuration? The SponsorBlock settings are applied to General. Tartube settings (Rename to .json, Github doesn't support json): settings.txt

[axcore]

Hopefully you have installed FFmpeg using Tartube's menu (Operations > Install FFmpeg).

Hopefully you have checked that the videos exist on SponsorBlock's sever.

Then, give me the URL of a video that should be processed by SponsorBlock, but is not, and I'll test it.

[francois072]

FFmpeg is installed. The option is greyed out. The video exists on SponsorBlock's server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyg615mdZeQ Ad at 33s

[francois072]

When manually applying SponsorBlock. Special > Process with FFmpeg > Use the video's own slice data Output: Starting process operation Video 1/1: Amazing elementary apps you can install on other linux distributions

[axcore]

FFmpeg is installed. The option is greyed out.

My brain is not operating at full capacity today. On Linux it's not necessary, or even possible, to install FFmpeg via Tartube's menu.

[francois072]

I am using Tartube to merge a m4a and mp4-dash into a mp4 file when downloading so assume that FFmpeg is working properly. FFmpeg is also installed at the default location.

[axcore]

I'm testing it now.

[axcore]

Ok, I tested your video using the same settings in your screenshots. It works perfectly, the video downloads and the advert is removed. Does your output look like this?

So, if it is not working for you, let's start with an obvious question: are you doing a normal download or a custom download? For example, you can right-click the video and select "Custom download video", if you select "Download video" then SponsorBlock won't work.

Or, you can right-click the channel and select "Custom download channel", or you can use Tartube's main menu and select "Operations > Custom download all". Again, if you select "download channel" or "download all" it won't work.

[francois072]

I was using the regular "download all" button. I thought that "general" was the options that were being applied to that button. It does now appear to be working in the output window, but the actual end result is only the first section before the ad. The download appears to be going very slowly, although a speed test shows my download speed to be normal.

[info] pyg615mdZeQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 302+251 [download] Destination: /run/media/francois/Storage/Downloads/Tartube/Unsorted Videos/.clips_304/clip_2.mp4 [ffmpeg] Downloaded 36778526 bytes [download] 100% of 35.07MiB in 05:40 [VideoRemuxer] Not remuxing media file '/run/media/francois/Storage/Downloads/Tartube/Unsorted Videos/.clips_304/clip_2.mp4'; frame= 0 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size= 0kB time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A speed= 0x
frame= 0 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size= 0kB time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A speed= 0x
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frame=35277 fps=104 q=-1.0 Lsize= 35917kB time=00:11:52.48 bitrate= 413.0kbits/s speed= 2.1x video:25559kB audio:9803kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.568004%

I'm getting this warning: WARNING: --downloader-args given without specifying name. The arguments will be given to all external downloaders

[axcore]

[info] pyg615mdZeQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 302+251

FFmpeg's performance when slicing up videos depends greatly on the video format being used. Try downloading in plain .mp4 and see what happens then.

[francois072]

As mentioned in the documentation it's faster too just skip the ads manually. Newpipe with SponsorBlock has a different approach. Instead of using FFmpeg to splice the clips together the app simply downloads the entire video and automatically skips the sections with ads. Would this be possibble in Tartube?

[axcore]

I haven't used Newpipe so I'm not sure what you're asking for.

If you mean: open the downloaded video in a media player, and ask the media player to skip certain sections: I don't know if that's possible, though if it were possible I would certainly implement it.

[francois072]

If you mean: open the downloaded video in a media player, and ask the media player to skip certain sections: I don't know if that's possible, though if it were possible I would certainly implement it.

Exactly that.

[francois072]

If the video in NewPipe is played online then SponsorBlock works, but if the video is downloaded and played offline SponsorBlock doesn't work.

That's why "Enable Local Player" has to be enabled so that SponsorBlock works.

Would be great if it was possible to add "skip section" metadata to a video file so that it could be played by any decent video player.

[axcore]

Would be great if it was possible to add "skip section" metadata to a video file so that it could be played by any decent video player.

I looked into that. Unfortunately, it is not possible. Popular media players do not recognise any kind of "skip this section" metadata (I used this list to check that).

Some years ago I considered adding a media player inside Tartube, but the VLC code no longer works and no-one is maintaining it.

So I think there's nothing I can do. I did change the layout of the edit window, to reduce the confusion a little. It now looks like this: