Custom arguments broken

[dot-mike]

When using custom arguments for YT-DLP the program does not download / save the video file.

Reproduce

1. Enable the following options in settings
   • Enable output file name overriding
   • Enable custom yt-dlp args (great power = great responsabilities)
2. Navigate to download video
3. Set download video to https://www.youtube.com/@jawed/videos and use the following options:
   • YT-dlp arguments: -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4
   • custom filename: %(uploader)s_%(channel_id)s/%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s

What occurred I can see that the process is yt-dlp started in container by executing ps | cat, but video file is never downloaded to /downloads directory.

What to expect File is present in /downloads directory

Comments It works if I execute the same yt-dlp command taken from running the command ps | cat.

Logs , screenshot, etc

2023/10/14 01:32:40 "POST http://192.168.10.90:3033/rpc/http HTTP/1.1" from 172.17.0.1:33052 - 200 74B in 322.692µs
2023/10/14 01:32:40  Metadata   49fc824a  https://www.youtube.com/@jawed/videos
2023/10/14 01:32:46  FINISH   49fc824a  https://www.youtube.com/@jawed/videos
2023/10/14 01:33:33  Successfully serialized session

[dot-mike]

I did some more testing and looks like it's the -f argument that is not handled correctly. I know yt-dlp will abort if it can't find the requested format, but I did try with -f 'bestvideo+bestaudio' as the only argument to yt-dlp and it should've downloaded any version at the highest quality but did not happen.

--write-info-json argument works 🤔

[marcopeocchi]

'bestvideo+bestaudio' is by default what yt-dlp uses. But I get what you mean, it's quite curious. I'll look into that.

[dot-mike]

Indeed, but I wanted to force mp4 format and not use webm...