ytdlp-interface oddness

[Axel Slingerland]

Hello,

A month or so ago Tom Saurus recommended ytdlp-interface to me, I tried it and it worked great on a couple of places I go, such as YouTube. I love the easy installation. But while trying to install a different program, I was trying to edit my System Path and accidentally deleted the entry for Ffmpeg. I have all of my downloader related programs in the same place, Ffmpeg/bin. All of my downloaders stopped working. I saw the problem and put the Path entry for Ffmpeg back, and all of them started working properly again, except for ytdlp-interface. The Path entry is exactly as it was before.

Now it works on other sites, but not YouTube. I copy a youtube link which is supposed to be an .mp4 file, and all it downloads is a .webp file that is just a thumbnail. I tried updating it to the latest version, along with yt-dlp and Ffmpeg, but no change. I thought that it might be YouTube, as they actively try to block downloading. But I have other YouTube downloaders, and they work fine. This isn't critical or anything, I would just like to learn about this, if it's possible.

Has anyone seen this? Have a solution, perhaps?

However, I should say that this is a quirky laptop, so it is entirely possible that has something to do with it. Stranger things have happened with it.

Thanks in advance, as always,

Ax

[videoAI]

I have ytdlp-interface,
and it works well on youtube as well as other sites.

keep in mind that you can:
1- use a local copy of ffmpeg/ffprobe in ytdlp-interface folder or
2- add the location of the bin folder to yt-dlp.conf, so ytdlp.exe knows where it is.
Ex: --ffmpeg-location "C:\\Portable\\PortableApps\\ffmpeg\\bin"

Try #2 and see if that changes things for you.

[HemLok]

Hello,

A month or so ago Tom Saurus recommended ytdlp-interface to me, I tried it and it worked great on a couple of places I go, such as YouTube. I love the easy installation. But while trying to install a different program, I was trying to edit my System Path and accidentally deleted the entry for Ffmpeg. I have all of my downloader related programs in the same place, Ffmpeg/bin. All of my downloaders stopped working. I saw the problem and put the Path entry for Ffmpeg back, and all of them started working properly again, except for ytdlp-interface. The Path entry is exactly as it was before.

Now it works on other sites, but not YouTube. I copy a youtube link which is supposed to be an .mp4 file, and all it downloads is a .webp file that is just a thumbnail. I tried updating it to the latest version, along with yt-dlp and Ffmpeg, but no change. I thought that it might be YouTube, as they actively try to block downloading. But I have other YouTube downloaders, and they work fine. This isn't critical or anything, I would just like to learn about this, if it's possible.

Has anyone seen this? Have a solution, perhaps?

However, I should say that this is a quirky laptop, so it is entirely possible that has something to do with it. Stranger things have happened with it.

Thanks in advance, as always,

Ax

I've never had an issue with yt-dlp or yt-dlp interface on Youtube but I don't grab things from Youtube very often. That said, I randomly tried grabbing a video and it failed with yt-dlp interface but was successful with yt-dlp, NickVision Parabolic which uses yt-dlp, and VCap Downloader which I don't think uses yt-dlp.

That said, the error message in the yt-dlp interface logs:

[GUI] got error executing command line: yt-dlp.exe --no-warnings -j --cookies-from-browser chrome -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -S "res:1080,vext:mkv,aext:m4a,fps,vcodec:h264,acodec :ac3" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

ERROR: Could not copy Chrome cookie database. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7271 for more info
ERROR: Could not copy Chrome cookie database. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7271 for more info

Reading that github link and looking at the yt-dlp interface settings I went to the yt-dlp tab and unchecked "load cookies from" which has the dropdown menu for selecting the browser. After disabling that setting I could now download from Youtube again.

Edit: I don't recall ever enabling the loading of cookies setting. I don't know if it's enabled by default or not.

[Axel Slingerland]

Did all that... No change. The error that stands out in the log, is ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403 Forbidden. Oh well, I guess I will just keep using 4k Video Downloader+ or 3D Youtube Downloader, as they both work fine.