Youtube plugin problems

Hi,

FRD Version - 0.9u4

Youtube plugin version : 2.9.16

Sample Link: [www.youtube.com]

There are 2 problems with the youtube plugin:

Problem 1: For most of the links these days, including this link, the download just does not start immediately with the error message : "ERROR - Player js url not found"
I need to press resume multiple times before the download starts.

Problem 2: For some videos, including this link, the 'Preferred Quality Level of highest available' does not seem to work.
This link is a 1080p video but on this setting - 'Preferred Quality Level of highest available', FRD is downloading a 640 x 360 video.

Please fix it.

wtf wrote:
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> Problem 2: For some videos, including this link,
> the 'Preferred Quality Level of highest available'
> does not seem to work.
> This link is a 1080p video but on this setting -
> 'Preferred Quality Level of highest available',
> FRD is downloading a 640 x 360 video.
>
> Please fix it.

Hello

Youtube have withdrawn the standalone 720p HD streams for most of their copyrighted content, only the standalone 360p variant remaining available...

The higher resolution variants (480p/720p/1080p+) are of the MPEG-DASH format, whereby two separate media streams (1 video + 1 audio) are being served to the client... You have to explicitly enable the DASH streams inside the yt plugin's options to fetch these... For instance, the following settings (see attachment) will get me a 720p MP4 file of your yt link!

@TVjunkie.

It worked, thank you a lot.

Hello.

I do need to inform again that the YouTube plugin has become virtually unusable.

In almost all of the links, I keep getting the message - "ERROR - Player js url not found" - and FRD will not download the link without resuming teh downloads 4-5 times.

Have a look please.

wtf Wrote:
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> Hello.
>
> I do need to inform again that the YouTube plugin
> has become virtually unusable.
>
> In almost all of the links, I keep getting the
> message - "ERROR - Player js url not found" - and
> FRD will not download the link without resuming
> teh downloads 4-5 times.
>
> Have a look please.



Agree

wtf Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> FRD Version - 0.9u4
>
> Youtube plugin version : 2.9.16
>
> Problem: For most of the links these days,
> including this link, the download just does not
> start immediately with the error message : "ERROR
> - Player js url not found"
> I need to press resume multiple times before the
> download starts.

I also face this problem for last 1 week.
I could able to download after several trial.

BUT today, I can't download any link from YouTube even after several attempts.

rose27 wrote:
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> BUT today, I can't download any link from YouTube even after several attempts.

... Confirmed here And, probably unrelated but, when I manually check for plugin updates (Help -> Check for new plugins), I can't connect to that server...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2018 12:53AM by TVjunkie.

plugin fixed

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Anyone can create & fix plugins

Thank you birchie.

That problem seems to be fixed.

There is a new problem that is sitll there

FRD Version - 0.9u4

Youtube plugin version : 2.9.17

Sample Link - [www.youtube.com]

Error message - ERROR - Unable to select Youtube media

This is the playlist I am downloading - [www.youtube.com]

The sample link is a video from this playlist.

Some have downloaded just fine, I have had this error in atleast 4 links -

[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]

Kindly have a look.

rose27 Wrote:
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> wtf Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hi,
> > FRD Version - 0.9u4
> > Youtube plugin version : 2.9.16
> > Problem: For most of the links these days,
> > including this link, the download just does not
> > start immediately with the error message :
> "ERROR
> > - Player js url not found"
> > I need to press resume multiple times before
> the download starts.
>
> I also face this problem for last 1 week.
> I could able to download after several trial.
>
> BUT today, I can't download any link from YouTube
> even after several attempts.
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My problem is not solved.

The new YT Plugin 2.9.17 is not automatically downloaded to my FRD.
When I tried manually download it from 'Help', I always get the message,
"Checking for new version failed. Failed to connect to remote server".