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i3arnon
Some videos ignore encoding= option for an unknown reason causing larger download size.
Sample video: xaerlUIavxo actual download size reported by yt-dlp format 18 266.91MiB format 22 392.82MiB actual download size reported by curl via YouCast encoding=MP4_320 392M encoding=MP4_720 392M no encoding 392M
I don't know what provided screen tells users but actual download via youcast from above sample video is still 392M as of right now:
$ curl -L -o dummy 'http://my-youcast:22703/FeedService/Video.mp4?videoId=xaerlUIavxo&encoding=MP4_360'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
1 392M 1 4933k 0 0 81657 0 1:24:04 0:01:01 1:23:03 88544
other download tool size matches the screen you provided.
$ python2.7 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f 18 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=xaerlUIavxo'
[download] 0.8% of 266.91MiB at 84.00KiB/s ETA 53:49
File acquired via YouCast is 47% larger.
I don't know what provided screen tells
It shows the description of the stream YoutubeExplode returns from YouTube. Where the quality is 360p and the size is 266MB.
Despite YoutubeExplode, youtube-dl and yt-dlp all report and download 266MB this particular video actual download via YouCast 360p is 47% larger.
I found several more examples. yt-dlp downloads format 22 in 14 seconds: [download] 100% of 422.66MiB in 00:14 However, both curl and podcast player show download ETA about two hours for the same 422MiB of video: 2 422M 2 9283k 0 0 62231 0 1:58:41 0:02:32 1:56:09 62147
Any updates on possible causes? I have more sample videos with the same behavior. Comparing video download URL with one used by youtube-dl and yt-dlp I see significant differences.
Any updates on possible causes?
As I said, these are the streams YoutubeExplode returns from YouTube.
I don't see what can be done about it.
Checking v2.21 on a video mentioned in https://github.com/i3arnon/YouCast/issues/72#issue-1039107230 Speed throttling is gone but size is still 392M for both 360 and 720 formats. Could anyone check download size by using just YoutubeExplode?
I did more testing and looks like MP4_360 option is ignored. Download URL always lists itag=22 regardless. Tag 22 corresponds 720 format. Here is another random video I tried SKNCTXEYi48. The simplest way to reproduce it is to use curl -v or wget on download video URL, e.g.:
wget 'http://youcast-host:22703/FeedService/Video.mp4?videoId=SKNCTXEYi48&encoding=MP4_360'
and observe final download URL with itag=22 instead of itag=18
I don't know what provided screen tells users but actual download via youcast from above sample video is still 392M as of right now:
$ curl -L -o dummy 'http://my-youcast:22703/FeedService/Video.mp4?videoId=xaerlUIavxo&encoding=MP4_360' % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 1 392M 1 4933k 0 0 81657 0 1:24:04 0:01:01 1:23:03 88544other download tool size matches the screen you provided.
$ python2.7 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f 18 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=xaerlUIavxo' [download] 0.8% of 266.91MiB at 84.00KiB/s ETA 53:49File acquired via YouCast is 47% larger.
I found the problem. Nobody noticed that a p is missing after 360. Code on https://github.com/i3arnon/YouCast/blob/fbdd11b3e9325771fc82a9e670293f5fc4fe919d/src/Service/YoutubeFeed.cs#L146 expect a char after resolution.
If anyone is looking for saving a bandwidth, resolution MP4_144p is also valid. Lastly I would like to see a 360 instead of 720 as a default resolution on line https://github.com/i3arnon/YouCast/blob/fbdd11b3e9325771fc82a9e670293f5fc4fe919d/src/Service/YoutubeFeed.cs#L143 Thank you.
Hi @i3arnon any chance you can set default video resolution to 360 and close this request?