[fireant]

RESOLVED - Thank you PSPZOCKERSCENE.

It took some kludging but I got FFMPEG downloaded and JDownloader2 to focus on my fresh copy.

That copy was only visible in my User/Downloads directory though, no other location could SEE the folder. I'm guessing I'm noobing hard on Linux, I doubt keeping it there is proper, but my youtube files are downloading, completing, and watchable.

Thank you again!

[dvmoo]

Hi all experts,

Often I wish to download a youtube clip (for instance a document that does not need 4K) but saving with its smallest size (to save disk space) for a given resolution (i.e. 1080 for the clarity).

By default, JD will choose MP4 at this resolution (set limit to 1080 in the plugin), it seems due to parameter "Youtube: Quality Sort Identifier Order Filetype" (correct?).

The problem is, while MP4 might give the best quality (the plugin was set to choose the best video), sometime its size is smaller than MKV and WEBM, but most of time it isn't, sometime has almost double size. (No idea of the cause of it, maybe depending on the original version of the uploader then youtube tries to convert to other format which increases the size?). We can set the plugin to choose MKV instead, but then it happens that there are some MP4 that have smaller size!

So is there anyway to set the plugin choosing the smallest size among MP4 MKV WEBM etc, for a give resolution? Or do we need a script for that?

Thanks!

[dvmoo]

Hello all,

When we add a youtube list, or a video in the list:
a) if only a video is chosen: the link appears in Download from and Show URL is clear, like what we see in https line, fine.
b) if we choose to download the whole list, then ALL the entries of the list are shown with the same line v= list= index= ... all with 1 same line.
Open in browser (either from LinkGrabber or Downloads) will open the SAME video, for all entries of the list added!
Strange, JD has been changed with this bug? Because previously I saw it open the right video despite its index is the same for all!
c) If we paste a link such as youtube.... playlist?list=... (from View full playlist), then all entries will have the same as pasted. Result: Open in browser will all jump to View full playlist, will not play anything of course.

Now, what is interesting is, when downloading, JD still choose the right video to download, not wrongly like Open in browser. That means JD saves the real link in its list .zip, but why does not display clearly the link with v=... in LinkGrabber or Downloads?

Also, if we load container .dlc, the "Download from" will display "file:/...", why not the original link? And so, if we had deleted the source of this .dlc, we won't be able to see the original link again (!?)

Do I miss something in Advanced Settings for this?

Note: JD is newly installed, today, with its latest version.

Thanks all!

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by dvmoo

So is there anyway to set the plugin choosing the smallest size among MP4 MKV WEBM etc, for a give resolution? Or do we need a script for that?

No - if at all, you need to write a script.

Regarding the size: What about codec and FPS?
Did you check that/play around with the settings?

Originally Posted by dvmoo

b) if we choose to download the whole list, then ALL the entries of the list are shown with the same line v= list= index= ... all with 1 same line.
...
Open in browser (either from LinkGrabber or Downloads) will open the SAME video, for all entries of the list added!
Strange, JD has been changed with this bug? Because previously I saw it open the right video despite its index is the same for all!

Please provide example URLs.

Originally Posted by dvmoo

Now, what is interesting is, when downloading, JD still choose the right video to download, not wrongly like Open in browser. That means JD saves the real link in its list .zip, but why does not display clearly the link with v=... in LinkGrabber or Downloads?

Most likely your "Display URL" setting is not how you'd like it to be and the URL you see is the source/container URL.
See:
https://support.jdownloader.org/Know...iew-added-urls

Originally Posted by dvmoo

Also, if we load container .dlc, the "Download from" will display "file:/...", why not the original link? And so, if we had deleted the source of this .dlc, we won't be able to see the original link again (!?)

That is explained in the article I linked above, see "I cannot view/copy any URL at all - why?".

[YNN]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

Wrong!

Read-access does not need credentials.

Looks like you'Ve tried to open SVN links in your browser. Using the SVN protocol in Eclise, it will work just fine and you can obtain the source code.

Quite correct. I remembered that SVN could serve an HTML view of the repository and figured I would use that since I didn't have an SVN client installed here. I didn't notice that the links used the SVN protocol rather than HTTP.

Anyway, I actually figured that out pretty soon after I posted and did install the toolchain intending to try to figure it out, but ran out of time. I got into it again now, but ran out of time again. I'm guessing it's somewhere inside the playerresponse data, but didn't get to look through it.

I think that rather than implementing the UI I suggested, it might be best to just start with finding the default audio track and using that. That seems to be what the web player does and it would be better than the current situation, where it looks like the first audio track in the list is used.

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by YNN

I remembered that SVN could serve an HTML view of the repository and figured I would use that since I didn't have an SVN client installed here.

Correct but that has been turned off for now for internal reasons.
There is an unofficial(!) github mirror of the source code:
github.com/mirror/jdownloader

Originally Posted by YNN

I'm guessing it's somewhere inside the playerresponse data, but didn't get to look through it.

As explained the problem is not finding the audio track itself.
What takes up much more time will be implementing audio track selection into the existing GUI/settings/variants-system and at the same time keeping the duplicate-check backward compatibility to items added to downloadlist before audio track support.

Originally Posted by YNN

I think that rather than implementing the UI I suggested, it might be best to just start with finding the default audio track and using that. That seems to be what the web player does and it would be better than the current situation, where it looks like the first audio track in the list is used.

I do agree with that.

[dvmoo]

Many thanks for your support. It is interesting to learn that there are still many points in this software to discover

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

No - if at all, you need to write a script.
Regarding the size: What about codec and FPS?
Did you check that/play around with the settings?

Yes I did and did so many time to adjust each time with various resolutions, (normally I set to limit to 30 fps and bitrate 128, 160 or 192 kbits). And after many time repeating such "search and select", and after many updates of JD, I see the same point does not seem to interest anyone to point this out, so I put the question here to find a solution.

Examples: for a video
- "v = QTR2S0jx1FQ", **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**, JD will chooses mp4 as default, which has a file size of 136 MB, the biggest, while the one for mkv is 65 MB, and webm is 68 MB, keeping the same equivalent of resolution 1080 (no matter if it is H264 or VP9 since they link with mp4 or mkv webm)
- "v = aBzQ5KV4glE" is opposite, its mp4 has 98 MB, the smallest, as its mkv or webm, even for 48 or 64 kbits, have 138 - 145 MB.
- "v = IpnJDg8CVOs" is different, all formats have almost the same size.

So I don't know the rule or the logic behind it. If I would write a script, I will have to get the size of each entry for a filter set, then compare, sort and select the one with smallest size. This means I need to dig heavily into the code, do I? The Youtube plugin gives to choose the "best" video "best" audio... but not the "best" file size though (for a given filter such as resolution).

Concerning the script, I am very new for that, do you have a/some link(s) that I can have a look? I had also seen the youtube plugins folder, which has so many json files that I don't have any idea how to customize it.

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

Please provide example URLs.

In fact, the link you provide has solved the problem, thanks a lot. But I still can point out that if we do not change there, then there seems to have an error, here is an example:

For a list = PLx5i827-FDqPiLPjGxlUv3gjq7uCEVVfl, if we paste the link seen from "View full list" (**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**), then all entries in LinkGrabbler will be the same, the line we see from http, which is just **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**.
Linkgrabber still lists out individual video's title, differently for each video. But if we Open in browser to ANY of these videos, it will just open the playlist without playing the video we thought to open. This is what I meant.

The same think if we paste a link from within the opened playlist, i.e. **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**

Then LinkGrabber will list ALL entries with the same link **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**. While the titles are also correct, but open each "correct" title will just jumps to play index 8 only, the one we pasted, and this, for all entries of the list.

Until now, I try to solve this by using Link Gopher plugin, reworking externally a bit before pasting to JD.

But now, with your link, this is solved: In my case the order was Custom Referrer Source Container Data, althought I never came or changed anything there though. But this seems to be the source of problem.
I move the Data-address to the top, and it seems that both the link display with exact link and open in browser work.
I will try later with .dlc to see.

Thanks again, sorry for the long explaination

[raztoki]

If you want default url display behaviour you can still have the video id output for each video with advanced setting Youtube.setcustomurlenabled .

[dvmoo]

Originally Posted by raztoki

If you want default url display behaviour you can still have the video id output for each video with advanced setting Youtube.setcustomurlenabled .

Thanks for the info, I check that Youtube.setcustomurlenabled, it is a boolean value, how does it act later then? I paste a link then where to customize it? Thanks again.

[Jebarkas]

Hi, I've uploaded (streamed) a video with OBS to youtube in resolution 3840x1080px and the highest available resolution to download this video in JDownloader is 2560x720px.

Is it a known limitation?

Is there no other way to download it in original resolution? Downloading it from youtube's Channel content (via browser) is even worse, downloads the video in 360p

Edit:
This is so weird. This video is indeed 2560x720px on youtube:


And yet I can select a resolution higher than 720p:


What's going on here?

[pspzockerscene]

Merged YT threads.

Originally Posted by dvmoo

But now, with your link, this is solved: In my case the order was Custom Referrer Source Container Data, althought I never came or changed anything there though. But this seems to be the source of problem.
I move the Data-address to the top, and it seems that both the link display with exact link and open in browser work.

Yap that's all you need to do.

Originally Posted by dvmoo

how does it act later then?

It only affects items added after enabling it.
I'm currently reviewing some YT related stuff. I will update this handling so changing that setting will also work for existing items.
If you're interested in this, I will let you know once that proposed changes will go live.

Originally Posted by dvmoo

I paste a link then where to customize it?

You can't. The setting is not about that.
Please re-read the settings' description.
To put it short - if you add playlist items, here is an example how the "data" links will look:
With that setting disabled (default):

youtube.com/watch?v=videoID#variant=blabla

With that setting enabled:

youtube.com/watch?v=videoID

@Jebarkas
No there are no limitations in JDownloader.
Generally you get what YT provides.
If you think you'Ve found a bug, please provide example URLs and a log.

Please post your log-ID here | bitte poste deine Log-ID hier.

-psp-

[raztoki]

@dvmoo
as its applied on adding a link && based on a advanced setting during decrypter plugin task. It only effects links when the value is true and sets sets a watch?v=uid type of link, you can not customise it any further. I made the setting because because of the newer displays when they first came in and it used to shit me to tears having to change display order globally just for this one plugin. Believe its the only plugin which has such a setting.

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by raztoki

Believe its the only plugin which has such a setting.

Nope besides that, our twitter.com reddit.com plugin has a similar setting only that that is "applied live".

I will adjust the YT plugin accordingly [if possible] as the data needed to "display" that URL is always available so defining that value once and for all when adding links like it is done at this moment is not optimal.

I will also add proper URLs for videos added as type of a playlist to resemble the URLs used in broweser.

[pspzockerscene]

@raztoki
I've changed the mentioned setting accordingly.
You can now change the output of the URL format live.

Bitte auf das nächste CORE-Update warten!

Please wait for the next CORE-Update!

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[GeorgeCostanza]

anyone else having issues with youtube grabbing links?

i'm on build date: Wed Jun 28 17:22:26 CEST 2023

before this update, JD would grab youtube links when i copied the URL of the youtube video

this no longer occurs

using the chrome extension and selecting "Download with JDownloader" doesn't work either

clicking "Add New Links" inside JD and pasting the link directly doesn't work either

[waxweazle2001]

Hallo Leute,

ich habe eben das letzte Update von JDownloader eingespielt, irgendwie scheint es jetzt aber Probleme zu geben mit dem Download von Youtube Videos, mein Account ist aktiv und wird auch so im Accountmanager angezeigt, also liegt es schon mal nicht an irgendeiner Altersfreigabe.
Ich hatte auf verschiedenen Wegen versucht den Link des Videos einzufügen, über die URL aus der Adressleiste auch mit Tiefenanalyse und auch mit der Video URL direkt. Beides hat leider nicht zum Erfolg geführt.
Er lädt kurz aber es wird gar nichts zur Linkliste hinzugefügt. Vor dem Update gestern ging noch alles.
Haben andere diese Probleme auch bereits festgestellt?

Grüße
Wax

[pspzockerscene]

I broke it in the last minute while working on it.
Fixed.

EDIT
@waxweazle2001
Das Problem hat nichts mit altersbeschränkten Videos zu tun.
Fixed - bitte Update FAQ unterhalb dieses Satzes lesen.

Wartest du auf einen angekündigten Bugfix oder ein neues Feature?
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Updates to not necessarily get released immediately!
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[waxweazle2001]

Danke für die schnelle Reaktion und den schnellen Fix!

[waxweazle2001]

Danke für die schnelle Reaktion und den schnellen Fix!

Originally Posted by waxweazle2001

Das Problem hat nichts mit altersbeschränkten Videos zu tun.

Das Problem vielleicht nicht, aber ich hatte es halt auch schon das Videos nicht in den Linksammler überführt wurden weil ich nicht angemeldet war mit dem Account weil die Altersbeschränkung gegriffen hat.
Da wollte ich der Frage darüber nur zuvor kommen. ;-)

[GeorgeCostanza]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

I broke it in the last minute while working on it.
Fixed.

thank you sir!