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anark10n

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Registered: 2012-10-13

Posts: 211

[Resolved] Downloading separate audio track from Youtube with flashgot

Hey, not sure this is the appropriate sub-forum to ask this, but here it is any way.

Using Firefox. The FlashGot add-on allows for downloading separate audio and video tracks, (useful if you want Youtube videos in 1080p and higher). It would download both tracks just fine, until today (11/05/2015), the video track downloads fine, but the audio track fails to down. This happens with both the built-in Firefox download manager, and uGet. I have tried downgrading the browser, and uGet, and I still get the same problem. Does this happen with anyone else? Or is it just a Youtube thing now?

Firefox 37.0.2
Flashgot 1.5.6.12
uGet 2.0

Last edited by anark10n (2015-05-15 18:21:52)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 525

Re: [Resolved] Downloading separate audio track from Youtube with flashgot

Not sure what you have wrong, I don't use any of those.
I can get the audio stream from a youtube video with

youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789

and the video with

youtube-dl -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789 --stream-dump=file.m4a

Or get the URL and use ffmpeg to dump the audio

vid=$(youtube-dl -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789)
ffmpeg -i $vid -vn -c:a copy out.m4a

just like always, so youtube hasn't changed anything.

I think that this is where I am suppose to say that using downloaders violates youtube's TOS.

anark10n

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Registered: 2012-10-13

Posts: 211

Re: [Resolved] Downloading separate audio track from Youtube with flashgot

Just tested it again, and it seems to be working fine now, although i didn't change anything, so it's all right, I guess. Thanks anyway.

I think that this is where I am suppose to say that using downloaders violates youtube's TOS.

I am well aware. Need a convenient way of rewatching videos when my internet connection dies, though, so ...