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woefe / ytcc

Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
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ytcc video resolution settings funtioning inconsistantly #24

Closed pghpete closed 4 years ago

pghpete commented 4 years ago

First, thank you for this awesome tool and great work on it! I truly appreciate it. If I can help debugging this issue or testing changes please let me know. (I'd be happy to do so)

The issue I have is that I would like ytcc to only pull videos that are 1920 x 1080 or higher in resolution and it sometimes works, sometimes pulls 640x480 or lower.

I have had my ytcc.conf file (located in /home/user/.config/ytcc.conf) set to, 1080, 1920, etc but cannot get this to function correctly or consistently.

From ytcc.conf file... [youtube-dl] format = mkv/mp4/bestvideo[height>=1920]+bestaudio/best

Attached is a bug-report-info file.

ytcc-bug-report-info.txt

I would also like to know if you would be interested in a proper man page for this utility. I would gladly assist in its creation and submission to this project.

Thank you. Pete

woefe commented 4 years ago

I think the problem is that you have mkv, mp4 and best without the height qualifier. Your format selector will always go for mkv or mp4, if available, regardless of the resolution.

Try for example: bestvideo[height>=1080]+bestaudio/best[height>=1080].

pghpete commented 4 years ago

The issue is that I am using this to populate minidlna to stream content and I cannot use webm/dash, and other various video/audio encoded videos. Is there not a way to both force a proper extension/encoding and screen resolution?

Using youtube-dl you can do something like this, which will get you the best resolution then merge output to mkv.

youtube-dl -i -o "%(uploader)s.%(title)s.%(ext)s" --skip-unavailable-fragments --merge-output-format "mkv"

I will try what you recommended though and see if I get dnla stream-able videos.

Thanks again for your assistance.

pghpete commented 4 years ago

I am still unable to get it to only get 1920x1080 or better using...

[youtube-dl] format = mkv/mp4/bestvideo[height>=1080]+bestaudio/best[height>=1080]

woefe commented 4 years ago

I added the merge_output_format option in 6d9ad60, because it seemed to fix your problem when using youtube-dl directly. Try the latest commit on the master branch and set the following config. It will get the bestvideo+bestaudio and merge them to a mkv container or use the best single file format available.

[youtube-dl]
format = bestvideo+bestaudio/best
mergeoutputformat = mkv
pghpete commented 4 years ago

Giving it a go now. Thank you! I will report back when I see some additional videos yanked.

pghpete commented 4 years ago

Works perfectly! Thank you very much for your work on this project and for your help here. I greatly appreciate it.

woefe commented 4 years ago

Thanks!

pghpete commented 4 years ago

Woefe, did this merge_output option go away in the latest revision? Was the change made on the main branch? Seems all of a sudden my system is ignoring it and dumping webm files instead.

pghpete commented 4 years ago

ignore that pghpete dude. he's mistaken. what a dope. :)

new system lacked ffmpeg for some reason so it couldn't do the merge post download.