Howdy, I'm hearing bad things about youtube-dl. It seems the RIAA is punishing people who use it legally for those who don't. Funny how the people who don't do anything wrong pays for the ones who do while the ones who do bad things get away. Anyway.
A good while back this list helped me set up the conf file for youtube-dl so that it grabs the best resolution up to 720P or 1280 resolution videos. I have no need for a 4K video. lol It seems something changed a while back and the options in the conf file produce a error. From the error, I can't figure out what to change. This is the error. ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to search YouTube I'm using the normal youtube-dl <link to video> command. No options or anything. This is what I have in the conf file. --format bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best --merge-output-format mp4 Those options worked for a long time so I guess something changed with youtube-dl. I don't get why it says the options are a URL either. When I google, I can't find where anyone is getting this error or using different options either, at least not to accomplish the same goal. I might add, my googling turned up the RIAA mess. May have to donate to help fund lawyers. :/ Anyone know what to do to fix it? I can't make heads or tails of it. Dale :-) :-)
