Many "stuck" videos during "Download to IIAB" (is a YouTube advert embedded at the start of each video possibly causing this?)

[holta]

@EMG70 reports: (Ubuntu 24.10)

There were a lot of failed videos from this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbC14Txh1KZdaX5DkYYX8BBF3j9Bowhce.

My observation on the failed videos is that they all start with an advert(Green chef) in particular for this playlist.Here is some of adverts that failed and most have that Green chef advert at the start,one has to click skip to play it,could this be causing an issue on Calib-web/yt-dlp download?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGSQb2stt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzq2Yd7mlsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzVqOwnZaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRw_GimN32k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzVqOwnZaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsdzDGsIh-A

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[holta]

FWIW @EMG70 observed that most all "stuck" videos had this advert embedded at the start:

[holta]

Tangentially related:

• "Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads"

• "The change would see Instagram becoming more like the free version of YouTube, which requires users to view ads before and in the middle of watching videos..."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/instagram-confirms-test-of-unskippable-ads/

[deldesir]

Thanks @EMG70. Just saw your ticket. This observation is interesting.

[deldesir]

Some timeout during the download process might be causing this.

When I set timeout to 30s the videos downloaded successfully. To avoid false positives, 60s might be better. https://github.com/iiab/calibre-web/blob/a6fc74a84cc92cf9b016c7b1eac1c3114998c70f/cps/tasks/download.py#L54

[deldesir]