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FS#36087 - [youtube-dl] Encode the video to mp4 does not work

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by جاك الفضة (jacksilver) - Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 01:20 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 06 January 2014, 08:34 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Option --recode-video FORMAT allow to encode the video to another format if necessary. Mp4 is a supported format but does not work.

(btw, ffmpeg should be added as an optional dependency).

Additional info:
* package version(s)

youtube-dl 2013.07.08.1-1
ffmpeg 1:1.2.1-1


Steps to reproduce:

# youtube-dl --recode-video=mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiFWoXQPOJc
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] iiFWoXQPOJc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] iiFWoXQPOJc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] iiFWoXQPOJc: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 3330580
[download] Destination: Work Done by Isothermic Process-iiFWoXQPOJc.flv
[download] 100.0% of 21.94MiB at 1.18MiB/s ETA 00:00
[ffmpeg] Converting video from flv to mp4, Destination: Work Done by Isothermic Process-iiFWoXQPOJc.mp4
ERROR: The encoder 'aac' is experimental but experimental codecs are not enabled, add '-strict -2' if you want to use it.
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Monday, 06 January 2014, 08:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Thursday, 11 July 2013, 16:11 GMT
I've reported it upstream:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1027
Comment by جاك الفضة (jacksilver) - Monday, 26 August 2013, 01:22 GMT
Add two lines to the configure in PKGBUILD file of ffmpeg

--enable-nonfree \
--enable-libfaac \

is like a fix for the problem.
Comment by Evert Van Petegem (EvertVP) - Saturday, 02 November 2013, 16:45 GMT
I think this bug can be closed. youtube-dl autodownloads as mp4 now.

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