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Closing due to stale

I looked into this about a year ago but was unsuccessful. Honestly, I have no clue what happened because I figured out the extra API parameter fairly quickly.

> Try with `--downloader ffmpeg` This does allow yt-dlp to download the VOD, however FFmpeg printed many warnings to the console and the resulting mp4 file does not contain a...

new yt-dlp output ``` [debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2223719525', '-f', 'worst', '--downloader', 'ffmpeg', '--download-sections', '*0:00:00-00:05:00', '-vU'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug]...

> This issue can't be tested anymore, [r0dn3y](https://www.twitch.tv/r0dn3y) channel has been terminated. Does anybody know what happened, who reported it? The channel still exists [https://www.twitch.tv/rodney/videos](https://www.twitch.tv/rodney/videos?filter=archives&sort=time)

It is the same account. If you visit the VOD link I sent previously, you can see he is the owner. On Wed., Sep. 4, 2024, 7:35 a.m. superbonaci, ***@***.***>...

> It's trying to download at 720p60. I can't attempt to access higher video quality because of Twitch's region blocking (as per this article https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/stream-quality?language=en_US#how-to-watch ). Based on the language...

> Twitch serves me English article when I click the link explaining why I can't watch 2k content but I don't live in the US. I live in Czechia, EU,...

Downloading via m3u8 links would be alright I guess. As far chats from sub/deleted vods that's not such an easy problem. I am certain that deleted vods will not have...

[Ganymede](https://github.com/Zibbp/ganymede) uses [chat-dowlodaer](https://github.com/xenova/chat-downloader) to download chats (albeit missing some events like message pins, message deletions), then converts them into TD compatible chats. Ages ago I began working on an application...