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Requested format not available, but it is
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I went through related issues, through the examples, through the whole documentation and yet I can’t find an answer as to why this isn’t working.
The video I want to download has the following formats:
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWymfnI1SHI -F
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for SWymfnI1SHI:
format code extension resolution note
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 49k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz)
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 130k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz)
278 webm 256x144 DASH video 95k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 108k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400b, 30fps, video only
242 webm 426x240 DASH video 220k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 242k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only
134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 360k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only
243 webm 640x360 DASH video 405k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
244 webm 854x480 DASH video 752k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 1155k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d4014, 30fps, video only
247 webm 1280x720 DASH video 1505k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 2310k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d4016, 30fps, video only
137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 2358k , mp4_dash container, avc1.640028, 30fps, video only
248 webm 1920x1080 DASH video 2646k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only
18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k, 10.34MiB (best)
The following filter (that should download the best mp4 video less than 2GB and <=1080p):
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWymfnI1SHI -f "(bestvideo[ext=mp4,height<=1080,filesize<2000M])+(bestaudio)" --merge-output-format mp4 -v
returns:
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWymfnI1SHI', u'-f', u'(bestvideo[ext=mp4,height<=1080,filesize<2000M])+(bestaudio)', u'--merge-output-format', u'mp4', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.06.27
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.20.17-042017-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.6, ffprobe 3.4.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {137} signature length 103, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {134} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {140} signature length 103, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: requested format not available
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 807, in extract_info
return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 861, in process_ie_result
return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1634, in process_video_result
expected=True)
ExtractorError: requested format not available
while the following works:
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWymfnI1SHI -f "137+140" --merge-output-format mp4 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWymfnI1SHI', u'-f', u'137+140', u'--merge-output-format', u'mp4', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.06.27
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.20.17-042017-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.6, ffprobe 3.4.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {137} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {134} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] {140} signature length 107, html5 player vflPG2SAp
[youtube] SWymfnI1SHI: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/expire/1562889698/ei/gnknXbbpConhhwaMyLOgCw/ip/46.126.78.23/id/496ca67e72354872/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/playback_host/r4---sn-1gieen7e.googlevideo.com/mm/31%2C26/mn/sn-1gieen7e%2Csn-4g5ednsd/ms/au%2Conr/mv/m/mvi/3/pl/16/hfr/all/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/initcwndbps/1842500/mt/1562868021/fvip/4/itag/0/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Chfr%2Cas%2Citag/sig/ALgxI2wwQwIfZzdVJdv9QWzedHj-WHXIn68pQ9vEYw0ipBc7mJT3bwIgSocTN3uBT4Tal7Spugjiy8KNexZztOWnJCnT38SdJso%3D/lsparams/playback_host%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps/lsig/AHylml4wRQIgGnZ16fWmZL8oEU4qLoS2AY4dKGwF9FXEMHNGROn3PZ8CIQDMtmYPg9pTsOY4nah-dIiq84cf2XH-98CTJXMFO6MYXg%3D%3D'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 46
[download] Destination: The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f137.mp4
[download] 100% of 49.28MiB in 00:32
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/expire/1562889698/ei/gnknXbbpConhhwaMyLOgCw/ip/46.126.78.23/id/496ca67e72354872/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/playback_host/r4---sn-1gieen7e.googlevideo.com/mm/31%2C26/mn/sn-1gieen7e%2Csn-4g5ednsd/ms/au%2Conr/mv/m/mvi/3/pl/16/hfr/all/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/initcwndbps/1842500/mt/1562868021/fvip/4/itag/0/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Chfr%2Cas%2Citag/sig/ALgxI2wwQwIfZzdVJdv9QWzedHj-WHXIn68pQ9vEYw0ipBc7mJT3bwIgSocTN3uBT4Tal7Spugjiy8KNexZztOWnJCnT38SdJso%3D/lsparams/playback_host%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps/lsig/AHylml4wRQIgGnZ16fWmZL8oEU4qLoS2AY4dKGwF9FXEMHNGROn3PZ8CIQDMtmYPg9pTsOY4nah-dIiq84cf2XH-98CTJXMFO6MYXg%3D%3D'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 25
[download] Destination: The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f140.m4a
[download] 100% of 3.70MiB in 00:10
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel 'repeat+info' -i 'file:The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f137.mp4' -i 'file:The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f140.m4a' -c copy -map '0:v:0' -map '1:a:0' 'file:The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.temp.mp4'
Deleting original file The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file The Rachmaninoff Diet-SWymfnI1SHI.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep)
any clues as to why this happens?
Thank you for your kind help.
Possibly related to https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14814
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Thanks, I read the documentation all over again, line by line and I realized that filters are separated using their own brackets. I went ahead and corrected my example but I still end up with the same result. I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong at this point:
I also attempted using --match-filter (which I guess is not the right way to do it) and I didn’t get any results either:
I know I might be very frustrating at this point, but would you mind giving me a pointer so that I can achieve what I’m trying to do? Thank you and best regards
That was the culprit! Thank you very much for your patience with me tonight.
Best regards