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Question regarding the youtube block. Currently I am using no config file and I have selected video+audio quality as 1080. I know this block acts as a front-end for youtube-dl.exe. Recently I have run into problems where someone will drop in a playlist URL and this seems to stall and then fail. I see that there is a youtube-dl command switch "--no-playlist; Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist". My question is if I create a config file will that override the audio+video 1080 selection I've made in the block? In truth the only reason I added 1080 was because I didn't want youtube-dl to download anything higher than that (2k/4k) and waste the time/bandwidth.

Opinions on how to accomplish my --no-playlist and 1080 or lower wish??

Hey crispyjones,
i see you seem to be aware about the used tool youtube-dl. This is also where the answer lies. What ffastrans code does is to just apply the parameter to your config additionally to all other paramters --config-location XXX
So from ffastrans perspective, just providing the config should not override any other settings of the processor.

Thanks @emcodem. A follow up question, how does the youtube block behave if the video isn't available in 1080?

Sure, no problem.
If my interpretation is correctly, n case the list of available formats does not contain the required quality, the default value "bestvideo" is applied. Additional info, the -f parameter is set to the youtube command in any case.

For anyone who is interested. Adding a youtube config file with a --no-playlist line fixed my issues with youtube urls that started with "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list="

As of version 1.2.0 the --no-playlist option is now sent by default in the YouTube processor. If you've upgraded to 1.2 and the only line in your youtube.conf file is --no-playlist you can delete it and remove the config file option from the processor.

Mr jones, good to hear from you!
Actually the stuff was just added thanks to @taner: https://ffastrans.com/frm/forum/viewtop ... f=4&t=1195

The thing for him was just, that his playlist was containing like 2500 videos, this made the whole problem more obvious.
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Hah, who makes a playlist with 2500 videos? Just wanted to update this topic so anybody searching would have the latest info. I love the new UI for the website, it's a great new look BTW.

crispyjones wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:47 pm Hah, who makes a playlist with 2500 videos?

Some influencer posting news about his sunday morning?