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Unable to download youtube live videos #559

Closed Smasher-1 closed 1 day ago

Smasher-1 commented 3 weeks ago

bug description Whenever i try to download a youtube vod i get the "couldn't find anything to download" error, i've tried changing the link to youtu.be and youtube.com but to no success. I also tried changing the codec to h264, av1 and vp9, but that didn't work either

reproduction steps steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. go to 'cobalt tools'
  2. download this video: https://www.youtube.com/live/APE-R7pCAKw?si=C_5mt53IOgCq-c9o
  3. see error

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ihatespawn commented 3 weeks ago

works for me with https://www.youtube.com/live/m-1f4j5A7Gw on default config

Jojobinx17 commented 2 weeks ago

The video that you are trying to download is over cobalt's 180 minute max video length. I don't know why it was causing the weird errors though.

wukko commented 1 day ago

the video you've linked is indeed longer than main instance's length limit. other (recorded) live videos seem to work. use a different instance that allows longer downloads or host your own!