Support for Live Videos

[xxcodianxx]

Support for Live Videos

[xxcodianxx]

Alright, I will look into this, it seems yt-dlp supports live videos, so I'll get back to you soon.

[DavidBerdik]

@xxcodianxx Thanks for looking in to this! If time permits, perhaps I will mess around with trying to make it work myself, but for now, I'll just accept that I can't handle live streams for my use case. No big deal. 🙂

As for the API endpoint, thanks for pointing that out! I don't know if anyone has any use for it aside from me, but I have made a stripped-down version of the code available here. It's pretty much identical except for the removal of the web UI.

[DavidBerdik]

That would be great! Thank you!

[xxcodianxx]

@DavidBerdik I tested various things with live videos, and they generally behave weird.

• yt-dlp does not actually provide distinct audio & video streams, it just labels everything as "video only", though there is sound...
• all "video only" streams (which actually contain audio as well) are unnamed
• neither of the "bestaudio" and "bestvideo" formats work, though "best" works properly!

Now, there was a bug in the metadata getting API that should be fixed by 3ce6a24.

Since bestaudio won't work, I suggest pulling the whole thing and just stripping the video off of it. Sorry there is no easy way to get audio-only. I'm considering reworking this project majorly with better organization & support for live videos, though I can't promise anything.

Hope this helps!

PS. I see you're referencing the /api/dl endpoint instead of just talking to the server directly. Note that /api passes through nginx, you can reference the API server's /dl endpoint directly to skip some overhead!