junkfood

Quality or Legacy in format preference only affects the order of the formats. The `Suggested` format in the format selection page is just the first format in the list, so...

> This error, however, occurs at the start of step 3, preventing Seal from fetching that list of available audio/video formats, and me from checking and possibly adjusting any selection....

@GfEW I'll just download the video on my own every time when I notice a user posting report of this issue with related video URL attached. But **none of them**...

> Can at least confirm @GfEW's hypothesis about switching formats. Had a video that would consistently fail with the temporary directory error, not even getting to the'select formats' stage. Switching...

Thanks for all the efforts on this! Though it's difficult to reproduce this issue and get a detailed stacktrace, we're working on updating the built-in python environment for Seal recently,...

> Would it help if I provided more log excerpts like the one in https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/issues/1161#issuecomment-1863945038? I'm afraid not. The error itself does not have any relevant information reflected in the...

> Do you actually think more useful information could be retrieved on the commandline with some of yt-dlp's [verbosity options](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#verbosity-and-simulation-options) We've already enabled this with `Detailed output` on, and so...

Try enabling Download directory - Restrict filenames

Does this issue occur in `Quick download` with `Configure before download` off?

What additional information you want to know about this preference? i thought the description under the title is already enough