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Hi Admin Team,

Hope you are fine.

I have a problem.
When using Youtube decoder the step "Extracting media information" takes forever.
File will not be downloaded.
It worked until it didnt.
That makes me very sad.
As far as I can see YT-DLP within ffastrans folder is the latest release.
When I submit the same url via command line and without any additional arguments the file will be downloaded.

Following is repeatedly logged in FFAStrans, over and over:
WARNING: ffmpeg not found. The downloaded format may not be the best available. Installing ffmpeg is strongly recommended:
WARNING: [youtube] yUi_S6YWjZw: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client.
WARNING: [youtube] yUi_S6YWjZw: Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected. The current session may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client.


Im aware that it is a third party app but maybe it could be interesting for you that there may be currently a potential issue/limitation in some config.

Best
Taner

Hey @taner

woow interesting. Do you know if it works when testing locally because in this case ytdlp finds ffmpeg? E.g. can you place ffmpeg.exe in c:\windows\system32 and check again if it works then in ffastrans?
Can you give me a yt url to reproduce this?

Hi emcodem!

Thanks for reply.

I've tested a little bit more.
And as far as I can see it is related to those urls where a playlist exists.
But: in my case in FFAStrans playlist is not allowed and regardless of that it won't download those which are part of a playlist.
If there is no playlist then download in FFAStrans works.

And from command line, locally, it always works.
Regardless I set --yes-playlist or not.
Paradoxically it won't download the whole playlist even if I set --yes-playlist.
But maybe I'm missing another argument.

Anyway.
Here are 2 examples.

playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KhuVZE ... xyEVy6Ey9_

no playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0my4PAn80