Live Videos

[timomal]

Hello,

thank you for that awesome library. For normal youtube videos, everything works fine, it goes like a clockwork. But streaming live videos from youtube produces many audio artifacts. Frequently, there are hearable interruptions in the stream.

Can anyone reproduce that problem?

Thanks

[erwijet]

Hello.

Yes, I found that to be the case as well.

The following code produces a stream that will consistently play 3 seconds of audio, but then stop abruptly.

const stream = require('youtube-audio-stream');
const app = require('express')();

app.get('/audio/:id', (req, res) => {
  const youtubeUrl = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=' + req.params.id;
  try {
    youtubeStream(youtubeUrl).pipe(res);
  } catch (ex) {
    res.status(500).send(ex);
  }
});

// etc...

When the youtube ID is a live video, this issue occurs. With normal videos, it works fine.

[XLPhere]

Can confirm live also ends abruptly after 4 seconds of audio for me Streaming YouTube live would be great feature though +1

[JamesKyburz]

It's probably related to me not having time to update ytdl-core manually... (This has now been automated).

Can you test again with the latest version please?

[FedericoRivero]

It's probably related to me not having time to update ytdl-core manually... (This has now been automated).

Can you test again with the latest version please?

Hello, I have installed the latest version, with live videos it stops after 3 seconds of playback. Amazing library!

[Felipe-Caldeira]

Is there a workaround to this?

[Felipe-Caldeira]

Apparently the root of the problem is related to the configs passed to ytdl-core, which has a lot of similar reported issues of livestreams not working properly. A solution posted there that worked for me was this:

https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1015#issuecomment-1037889998

These settings need to be set directly as the opt object in the index.js file of the youtube-audio-stream package:

// youtube-audio-stream/index.js

function streamify (uri, opt) {
//   opt = {
//     ...opt,
//     videoFormat: 'mp4',
//     quality: 'lowest',
//     audioFormat: 'mp3',
//     filter (format) {
//       return format.container === opt.videoFormat && format.audioBitrate
//     }
//   }

  opt = {
    videoFormat: 'mp4',
    audioFormat: 'mp3',
    quality: [91, 92, 93, 94, 95],
    liveBuffer: 4900,
  }

  const video = ytdl(uri, opt)
  .
  .
  .