[Solved] Twitch video only giving audio as download option

[Xirix]

I've been grabbing a series from this guy on twitch, this video for some reason is only giving me audio files to download, .mpa format?

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The video seems to work fine on twitch.

[Jiaz]

It is because the video part starts very very late and ffmpeg doesn't handle the video part because it doesn't exist in the beginning. I will check and look for a workaround/solution

[Xirix]

It does? It's showing the games title screen at the beginning of the video for me, at least right now anyway.

[Jiaz]

When I opened in browser and press play, the first seconds are complete black

[Xirix]

Oh weird, I'm using a way older version of firefox so, alright well I'll leave you to it, I hope you can find a solution, this guy doesn't stream much so his videos only last 2 weeks.

[Jiaz]

Thanks for the feedback for 'last 2 weeks' . I will check as soon as I can

[Xirix]

Just in case you don't find anything, I know twitch streams are made up of 5 seconds chunks of video or something? That ffmpeg puts together into the mp4, as a last resort is there a way to just download the raw parts?

Since FFmpeg is the issue here I figure there might be a way to do that? Then it can be assembled after somehow.

[Jiaz]

JDownloader does exactly that, but ffmpeg needs to know that those chunks contains video. And that is what is happening, ffmpeg doesn't realize that there is a video stream and that's why it is only processing the audio stream.

[Jiaz]

found a solution but it comes with the disadvantage that the first 2-10 seconds of audio/video are lost but I guess that is manageable

[Jiaz]

will be fixed with next update in a few minutes

[Xirix]

Oh nice, I'll test it with the video later, thanks very much. I'm sure I can deal with seconds of loss over losing the entire video. ^_^

Edit : Yup, it's recognising it as video now.

[Jiaz]

Thanks for the feedback