yt-dlp question

[blanc]

Hi,

With

yt-dlp --list-formats https://...

I found an audio file with the following information:

ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS | FILESIZE TBR PROTO | VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR
0 m4a audio only | ~ 3.66MiB 49k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 49k

Then I tried this command:

yt-dlp –f 0 –g https://...

but the output url is not downloadable. Why?

[LZAA]

Url?

[lomero]

try with

yt-dlp -F https://....

[ridibunda]

yt-dlp -f 0 --allow-unplayable-formats https://...mpd

[blanc]

In some cases the true url of the video can be acquired with the method above, but in other cases it doesn’t work with the second step. Maybe because video resources are implemented differently.

[ridibunda]

In some cases the true url of the video can be acquired with the method above, but in other cases it doesn’t work with the second step. Maybe because video resources are implemented differently.

DASH is a technique used by many streaming services.

In a DASH stream, you can't get "true URL"/"exact URL" of video or audio, because they are sent as lots of fragments. Not sent as single files.

What you do with yt-dlp is downloading those fragments and merging them.

Always add "--allow-unplayable-formats", to bypass protection warning.

[lomero]

mate, now is:

--allow-u

[ridibunda]

mate, now is:

--allow-u

There is not a line like that.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#general-options

[lomero]

try it mate ...

[codehound]

--allow-u

There is not line like that

Lomero is 100% correct. Since the last 4 releases of yt-dlp...

--allow-unplayable-formats

..is now able to be abbreviated to

--allow-u

And the most common usage (although not entirely) is for downloading encrypted content for offline decryption. Hence the terminology - its not playable until it has been decrypted.