> 2016-10-28 5:22 GMT+02:00 jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>: > > A new strange behavior of this util. > > When downloading a format of the file that is pure video (i.e. no > > audio) I end up with tens of small files each one labeled by the > > name of the listed movie > > appended with .part-FragN where N ranges from 0 to more than 200 > > sometimes. > > I updated youtube-dl by running youtube-dl -U and retried. It does > > the same thing. > > After it finished getting all the fragments, it does not catenate > > them into a single > > video file. > > How can I get around this problem? You could try to cat the fragments together into a new file. Whether this works depends on whether youtube puts some glue on the end for their browser video player. I think the issue is that web video servers like youtube have begun to serve videos in small chunks. My theory is that this is a response to mobile processing. If someone is streaming and moving between access points, if the whole file is being sent, it's lost. If a small chunk, just the small chunk is lost. And, it keeps resource usage minimal (memory and disk). I notice that the firefox downloaders (ant, dlhelper) have adjusted to this. They download the video chunks, and then knit them together and write them at completion. No longer are there any partial files. It's all or nothing. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
