Dale wrote: > Arve Barsnes wrote: >> I have not updated to yesterday's version yet, but using this format >> string on the command line on a HD video downloaded a 720p video, as >> expected. >> >> Immediate thought is that there's a stray config file somewhere still. >> Why do you get the 'ytdl-format' thing? As far as the internet can >> tell me, this is a mpv command line option. >> >> Regards, >> Arve >> >> > > That idea turned into something. I recently started running the command > as my user instead of root. I was trying to fix permissions issues > since it sets them as root:root when run as root plus it shouldn't be > run as root. Anyway, I thought I'd better look in /home/dale and see if > there was a config file in there. Yep, there it was. I think the > problem may be that they was a leading space at the beginning of the > relevant line. That space may have confused youtube-dl. > > It didn't hit me that this started when I started switching to my user > instead of running as root. I don't recall setting up that user config > file either. That said, it was likely many years ago. Will update > later when I test it again. > > Oh, it was grabbing the right format despite the error. It never went > above 720P or 1280 wide. It was working, just complaining about it. lol > > Thanks much. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Just to confirm. I been using the old version still but the error message is gone. Me starting to use my user account and it having a bad config I forgot about was the problem. Thanks for the help. :-D Dale :-) :-)
