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Hi Admin Team,

I've experienced some kind of shortcoming.
I tried to download a video by using YouTube processor.
After starting the watchfolder/submitting the lnk-file the status monitor showed only "Extracting Metadata".
I left it for about half an hour.
Tried it several times.
But the file was not downloaded.
I tried to download the file by using youtube-dl.exe and command line.
Before that I installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 because it was required.
In the beginning download of the youtube-file didn't work.
I had to set the url in double quotes.
Then it worked.

This is the url:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGh6ONU ... g&index=10

Best
Taner

EDIT: tried it again via command line. Didn't need to use double quotes for the url. Sorry for misleading.

Interim analysis report:
The problem seems to be a bug in youtube-dl. When we load the url from file (which ffastrans does) It will potentially forever outut the json information, thus filling the harddrive of the user at some time hehe...

When we load the url from commandline instead of from a file: Then we get the expected result: a json and a short-running process...

Opened a corresponding issue, i guess this should be resolved pretty quick
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28120

Thanks!

As far as I can see within the case at github it is mentioned that it won‘t run forever but ‚only’ as long as youtube-dl needs to „...browse all pages of this 2378 videos playlist“.
I‘m not quite familiar with the mechanisms of youtube-dl but it seems to me that i should have just wait a very long time?
Who the f*** creates a playlist with 2378 videos?

And why does youtube-dl needs to verify or somerhing else in order to download just the ‚main‘ file?

I know i should read the documentation or forward these questions to youtube-dl

haha ok, i guess we will need to take a deep look into the youtout-dl manuals to get out whats the issue. Anyway it seems to be "by design" regarding to our case here so it implies that we are really doing something wrong. I have to admit that i openen this case on github too fast

Thanks emcodem!

By the way: my anger was not related to you at all but to the person who thinks it is a good idea to create a vast playlist.

Never had this kind of download issue so far.