Deviant OllamOct 16

hmm.... anyone else aware of YT-DLP, the YouTube downloader tool, no longer working recently?

EDIT: Apparently, people are reporting to me that YouTube itself is struggling today. Maybe that's it.

EDIT2: YT-DLP appears to have increased some dwell time in their script recently AND there were, indeed, reports of things at YouTube being all porkchop sandwiches the other day... so between an updated version of the tool and the datacenter no longer on fire or whatever, downloading wiht YT-DLP appears to work properly again. 👍

Show threadDeviant OllamOct 16

Update: YT-DLP appears to have increased some dwell time in their script recently AND there were, indeed, reports of things at YouTube being all porkchop sandwiches the other day... so between an updated version of the tool and the datacenter no longer on fire or whatever, downloading wiht YT-DLP appears to work properly again. 👍

(i also added this text to the original toot, too)

Show threadOliver D. Reithmaier
@deviantollam im following the Freetube development recently and there seems to be a major change on yt's end going on abt how they stream vids, so devs (incl yt-dl) are currently trying to adapt.
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Show threadDec [{()}]Oct 16

@odr_k4tana @deviantollam
My yt-dlp runs today included a few that had a warning about "SABR-only or Server-Side Ad Placement experiment" for the session.

I have never seen those warnings before (and I watch all that output until the actual downloading starts, every time).

And they are probably messing with the quality of the streams that got forced to SABR.

(using version 2025.10.14 = latest)