YouTube So is it half broken? AV1 not successful.

[MrGrackle]

Success appears to be random. Does not matter how old the video is. Latest one I cannot download, just stays on analyzing forever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJSbO8UZVY

I called it on the built in browser and requested AV1.

If you closely watch it, it downloads for 1 second then goes to analyzing. Trying it in h264 or vp9 seems to work, but that's not what I want.

The download appears to work correctly with Open Video Downloader.

[MrGrackle]

Confirmed with a bunch of other videos. AV1 no longer works, which makes no sense bc the front end is YTDLP. Almost every video I tried has AV1 options and will work with Open Video Downloader. I prefer SF as it gives a few more options including cover.jpg.

[bricks]

just downloaded all 4 seasons BlackLightning and season Warrion Nun in AV1. Netflix Austria

[Germania]

just downloaded all 4 seasons BlackLightning and season Warrion Nun in AV1. Netflix Austria

I re-dl NF series Élite (full) + Bridgerton + The Rookie.s01 in 720p AV1 => all fine
(The Decameron.s01e07 seems to be not offered in AV1)

But for YouTube I can only confirm the AV1 no analyzing problem ..

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

.. while yt-dlp works with av1 without issues

[Cats4U]

ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

.. while yt-dlp works with av1 without issues

Perhaps because StreamFab is using an old version of yt-dlp (YoutubeToMP3Process.exe)? SF uses 2024.05.27 and the latest stable is 2024.07.25. I haven't compared the changelogs to see if any improvements with AV1 occurred between those two. I do know that there were some improvements to AV1 in June to FFmpeg.

[Germania]

Perhaps because StreamFab is using an old version of yt-dlp (YoutubeToMP3Process.exe)?

This is of course obvious - and completely true

current stable works fine - Log here

yt-dlp_2024.05.27 same error message - Log here

[Cats4U]

Wilson.Wang, time to recompile YoutubeToMP3Process.exe/YoutubeToMP3Service.exe using the latest stable version yt-dlp to fix the AV1 problem. I don't understand why you guys have such an aversion to using the latest stable versions of the component programs that you use in StreamFab. I personally manually change out 7 components to their latest stable version with every new StreamFab update. If I can do it, why can't you? It's strange that you don't do this, especially with yt-dlp updates because you always seem to like to take credit for adding or fixing non-DRM websites when you do update to the latest stable version. It appears in the changelog (see below) and emails are sent out telling how hard you worked adding new sites to SF when in fact the yt-dlp developers did all the work.

• New: Some improvements on the YouTube Downloader module:
  - New: Added support to download videos from the GN NEWS.
  - New: Added support to download videos from the caffeine.tv.
  - New: Added support to download videos from the ArteTV.
  - New: Added support to download videos from the Godresource.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from youporn.com.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from afreecatv.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from BBC.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from bilibili.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from Boosty.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from Canalalpha.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from cbc.ca.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from Multimedia Centre.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading music from JioSaavn.
  - New: Some improvements on downloading videos from TF1 INFO.

[MrGrackle]

just downloaded all 4 seasons BlackLightning and season Warrion Nun in AV1. Netflix Austria

Yes, but this thread is about youtube.

[MrGrackle]

Problem still exists on 6192.

On the support channel, Rain is giving me the standard response of deleting cache and log folders.
Mona Wilson.Wang can we get someone to update the YT to properly download AV1 again?

[Germania]

SF 6193

New: Some improvements on the YouTube Downloader module

YoutubeToMP3Process --version
2024.05.27

So Youtube AV1 is still not possible

btw: I don't know why the content has to be duplicated:

%ProgramFiles%\DVDFab\StreamFab\YouTubeDL
%AppData%\DVDFab\StreamFab\YoutubeDL

That's 236 MB twice !

[Germania]

SF 6194

YoutubeToMP3Process --version
2024.08.06

Youtube AV1 Problem fixed

[Cats4U]

SF 6194

YoutubeToMP3Process --version
2024.08.06

Youtube AV1 Problem fixed

One down. Now they only have 7 other component programs to update. Eight if you add in Python which is about to be depreciated.

[MrGrackle]

SF 6194

YoutubeToMP3Process --version
2024.08.06

Youtube AV1 Problem fixed

Thanks for confirming. After using Open Video Downloader for awhile, i am not sure what to do. It downloads updates any time there is one. Only thing it doesn't really do is add a cover.jpg.