Right now I would download a small video from walkthroug from a game. so I started with
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ sudo youtube-dl -U
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$
after little bit searching I found this and this too
Is there an alternative? with my current version I am not able to download it
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ youtube-dl --version
2020.09.14
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$
Ubuntu 16.04: Verify latest youtube-dl version:
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
youtube-dl is already the newest version (2016.02.22-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
Why does video's URL fail?
$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzSCJHp0lo
[youtube] ZFzSCJHp0lo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZFzSCJHp0lo: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: Unable to extract video title
ERROR: This video is unavailable.
Python Version
$ readlink -f $(which python) | xargs -I % sh -c 'echo -n "%: "; % -V'
/usr/bin/python2.7: Python 2.7.12
So I'm trying to download an entire youtube channel using youtube-dl. I know that if you use the -F command, it gives you a list of the quality type of the videos. My question is this: how to download the best quality of all the videos so the download doesnt default to 460p or something low like that.
I want to use a format selector that is something like -f bestvideo+best audio whose extension is compatible with the video extension so that they don't need to be muxed into an mkv (WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.).
Note: I know about -f best and I don't want that. I want the best possible qualities of both audio and video while ensuring that they are compatible. How to do that?
I have downloaded youtube-dl and the video download is complete, but when I
search for the video, I can't seem to find it.
Can anyone help?