youtube-dl --quiet is anything but

[Jonathan Kamens]

When I run "youtube-dl --quiet" on a Youtube URL, rather than it being silent when it works properly, which is what I would expect, it spews a huge amount of noise generated by ffmpeg.

When --quiet is passed to youtube-dl, it should pass the appropriate arguments to ffmpeg to tell it to be quiet as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: youtube-dl 2016.02.22-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Oct 30 16:19:26 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (288 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: youtube-dl
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-28 (185 days ago)

[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

Hmm. I'm having trouble reproducing this issue now that I've reported it. :-/

I think it may have something to do with the fact that I'm running youtube-dl in a cron job. It doesn't seem to happen when I run it from the command line.

[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

More info about this...

1) I'm actually specifying one additional argument to youtube-dl, "-f 95", to select the specific video format that I want to download.

2) Unfortunately, I can't give you a Youtube URL that exhibits this issue, because the video that I'm downloading is a live Youtube stream that is only accessible for viewing while it's streaming, and I can't find a persistent, i.e., non-live video on Youtube which has format 95.

3) I can't reproduce this with persistent videos with other -f arguments.

4) As I mentioned above, the command is being run out of a cron job, but that doesn't seem to be the entire issue either, because I just ran youtube-dl --quiet -f # URL out of a cron job and couldn't reproduce this.

I'm pretty stumped here. I definitely see this behavior when recording the specific video mentioned above, but I just can't figure out how to reproduce it to demonstrate it to you.

[Pander (pander)]

If this is still an issue, better report it upstream at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues

Best to close it here as Ubuntu doesn't do more than build and package this and this is not package or build related.

[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

Reported upstream as https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/13183 .

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Unit 193 (unit193)]

Howdy,

This bug was subsequently fixed in https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/a609e61a90ad8f3b472e2e221f9f75c8408b65f2 which is in release 2017.05.23 and on.