scarabdesign
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4 years ago This same thing happened to me trying to grab a live stream of Lockn' 2020 (links to this stream have been taken down already). It seems to pick up the stream where it's live at the time I start streaming, play for 10 to 20 seconds and then freeze. Then I hear spliced in 10 to 20 seconds of a different part of audio from the same stream, and then switches 10 to 20 seconds of audio from another part of the same stream. Eventually it will start on the video stream again, but again, it's only 10 to 20 seconds and then pauses and repeats the above all over again.
I initiated my download as h3lo had and the output looked about the same:
skipping [x] segments ahead, expired from playlists
It looked to me (tho I'm not sure) when this youtube stream lasts longer than 5 hours, the oldest part of the stream gets tossed. I noticed when I viewed the youtube stream in my browser after 8 hours, it would not let me track back to the beginning of the stream, but only up to 5 hours back. Just a hunch that that might have something to do with it. Perhaps this is what is meant by "expired from playlists". [shrug]
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Trying to record some of the live sets from this weekends Digital Mirage 2 online music festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K41czZ2JQ74
Attempting to download with youtube-dl produces unusal output I've not seen before "skipping 23 segments ahead, expired from playlists"
The resulting files have a few seconds of A/V and then the video freezes and there is silence for a min or so, before another few seconds of content plays normally. This repeats just like the log messages about skipping segments.
I was able to use this command to get the playlist:
I tried opening it directly with FFMPEG, but had the same error, so it seems the error comes from ffmpeg:
My FFMPEG is:
ffmpeg version 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1I am able to open the playlist URL with VLC and play/record without issue.