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salvo

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Getting tons of these error messages youtube-dl failed

I am fairly new to this operating system, and am looking for some assistance (like three or so days in).

Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook]
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: Failed to recognize file format.
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook]
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: Failed to recognize file format.
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook]
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions
Dec 22 20:57:56 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: Failed to recognize file format.
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook]
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: Failed to recognize file format.
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init
Dec 22 20:57:57 archsalvo gnome-shell[175013]: [ytdl_hook]

I have mpv, youtube-dl and yt-dlp installed and I am still getting this error.

Its not affecting the system at all -  I was looking for something in the journalctl and saw tons and tons of these lines in there, so wanted to take a look.

uname -r
6.12.6-arch1-1

Last edited by salvo (2024-12-23 20:53:47)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Getting tons of these error messages youtube-dl failed

youtube-dl is dead and replaced by the yt-dlp fork

type -a youtube-dl
file /usr/bin/youtube-dl
stat /usr/bin/youtube-dl

No idea what in gnome-shell would use yt-dlp, but if it insists on youtube-dl I'd symlink /usr/bin/yt-dlp to /usr/bin/youtube-dl, though they're no longer really compatible.

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corpest

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Registered: 2024-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Getting tons of these error messages youtube-dl failed

I mean, if it doesn't affect anything, it's not a big problem, but you could try reinstalling mpv files.

sudo pacman -S mpv

VLC can also directly stream YouTube videos and other content.

vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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salvo

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Getting tons of these error messages youtube-dl failed

I think I figured out the offending piece of software that was generating so much noise in jounrnalctl.

It was this Gnome plugin:

https://github.com/eucaue/gnome-shell-e … quick-lofi

I reinstalled mpv and it seemed to work better. I'm going to give it a few hours while I work on a few other issues and then close this if its still "fixed'.

Thanks!

salvo

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Getting tons of these error messages youtube-dl failed

OK, that seemed to fix it. Thank you for the suggestions!