nicolaasjan

@pukkandan Thank you very much for your effort! As a matter of fact, I've compiled binaries (both Linux and Windows) from the [merge-ytdl2](https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlc/tree/merge-ytdl2) branch for my own use for quite...

YouTube said: > Video not found

And when you leave out the `&feature=youtu.be` part of the URL? Works here: ``` youtube-dlc -v --ignore-config --merge-output-format mp4 -f 278+249 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDDgrM6bIo [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: []...

> how to merge and convert to mp4 without temp.mp4 Don't know if that's possible... What's the problem with having a temporary file created? Maybe that's part of the process;...

> and `ERROR: Stream #1:0 -> #0:1 (copy)`? Maybe your ffmpeg version is too old and lacks support for some codec YouTube uses (wild guess).

You can at least try with a [new ffmpeg version](https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/) and see if the problem persists. 4.3.1 is the latest stable version. But you can safely use the git master...

> how to use git master version for windows? Here you go: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ You can use the `git essentials` version. Direct link: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-essentials.7z Put `ffmpeg.exe` and `ffprobe.exe` (from the `\bin`...

> yes Good! I think that you can close the issue now. :)

It only works here _without_ `--merge-output-format mp4`. Then it will be saved as `.mkv` `WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.` With `--merge-output-format mp4`...

This however works: `youtube-dlc --ignore-config -v -f worstvideo[ext=mp4]+worstaudio --merge-output-format mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbNEvuaUabY`