u/a_random_gate

Context: Everything was working prior to downloading one video (after several) with the "Highest Quality Video and Audio option", some continued to work anyway along with giving the PC some space between downloads (and re-encodes) due to it's age.

However, Unless i select an 3rd alt account, Neither my personal, nor my 2nd other account works. Even then i have to stay on that account and generate a cookie.txt file. Otherwise, nothing unusual (no symptoms) on that account. Do note that I've haven't discovered the "sleep-interval" portion (s) in time, instead assuming the default sleep values.

Note: everything was installed correctly with no oversight that ive noticed on my end. It also doesn't list an normal error code to point to (in order to search other users having this issue).

If it otherwise is a normal symptom of too many videos downloaded, what could i do to prevent it?

Log from Stacher 7 (Now has reached the point where the video doesn't matter, any subsequent videos will do this, with the videos otherwise still accessible in a browser [Firefox] as usual):

Stacher Version: 7.1.11 System Information: win32 x64 Stacher Premium Active: Yes yt-dlp: C:\Users\agte6\.stacher\yt-dlp.exe Download ID: b856c2f6-3bf0-4b37-be9a-f95f30b64b83 Using Configuration: default-configuration Starting download for [URL REDACTED] With Arguments (based on your configuration): --output C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\English\%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s --format bestvideo+bestaudio --embed-chapters --exec post_process:%userprofile%\.stacher\ffmpeg -i {} -c:v h264_qsv -c:a copy -y {}_output.mp4 && move /y {}_output.mp4 {} --sleep-interval 20 --max-sleep-interval 25 --cookies-from-browser Firefox --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --write-description --abort-on-error --recode mp4 Pre-script: None Post-script: None Download Hash: 56e747d670bbca6825d6dc2209adbcaf3d9e6c021bacbf6d458457be92e758da Extracting cookies from firefox Extracted 2722 cookies from firefox [youtube] Extracting URL: [URL REDACTED] [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading player c74cbcd6-main [youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading m3u8 information ERROR: [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats Process exited with code 1

Context: Everything was working prior to downloading one video (after several) with the "Highest Quality Video and Audio option", some continued to work anyway along with giving the PC some space between downloads (and re-encodes) due to it's age.

However, Unless i select an 3rd alt account, Neither my personal, nor my 2nd other account works. Even then i have to stay on that account and generate a cookie.txt file. Otherwise, nothing unusual (no symptoms) on that account. Do note that I've haven't discovered the "sleep-interval" portion (s) in time, instead assuming the default sleep values.

Note: everything was installed correctly with no oversight that ive noticed on my end. It also doesn't list an normal error code to point to (in order to search other users having this issue).

If it otherwise is a normal symptom of too many videos downloaded, what could i do to prevent it?

Log from Stacher 7 (Now has reached the point where the video doesn't matter, any subsequent videos will do this, with the videos otherwise still accessible in a browser [Firefox] as usual):

Stacher Version: 7.1.11 System Information: win32 x64 Stacher Premium Active: Yes yt-dlp: C:\Users\agte6.stacher\yt-dlp.exe Download ID: b856c2f6-3bf0-4b37-be9a-f95f30b64b83 Using Configuration: default-configuration Starting download for [URL REDACTED] With Arguments (based on your configuration): --output C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\English%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s --format bestvideo+bestaudio --embed-chapters --exec post_process:%userprofile%.stacher\ffmpeg -i {} -c:v h264_qsv -c:a copy -y {}_output.mp4 && move /y {}_output.mp4 {} --sleep-interval 20 --max-sleep-interval 25 --cookies-from-browser Firefox --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --write-description --abort-on-error --recode mp4 Pre-script: None Post-script: None Download Hash: 56e747d670bbca6825d6dc2209adbcaf3d9e6c021bacbf6d458457be92e758da Extracting cookies from firefox Extracted 2722 cookies from firefox [youtube] Extracting URL: [URL REDACTED] [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading player c74cbcd6-main [youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Downloading m3u8 information ERROR: [youtube] XSZ0iMP80QQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats Process exited with code 1

the day prior i was only able to DL one video on the old Stacher6 version, before attempting to DL another one. At 1st, it gave me a cookies error, so then i tried again with them on, and it didn't even try.

On this version to play back/edit 4k videos on anything other than VLC, i had to use this command: %userprofile%.stacher\ffmpeg -i {} -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -y {}_output.mp4 && move /y {}_output.mp4 {}

after that fact i tried again when opening the app again, all i get from the log is: "process cancelled". i failed to get any other prior logs.

So then i tried the newest version of Stacher7, turned on cookies, tried to reencode to mp4 under the "Re-encode Video" option (selected as mp4), That too has failed to work (it also only gets 1080p max, when i selected "best available w/ Video and audio Already combined"):

In theory i shouldn't need the command i once used for the old Stacher6 version to get 4K videos as an H264 file.

(below log from stacher7)

Stacher Version: 7.1.11 System Information: win32 x64 Stacher Premium Active: Yes yt-dlp: C:\Users\agte6.stacher\yt-dlp.exe Download ID: 352fc03a-d35b-453e-8ceb-03256a8f24a7 Using Configuration: default-configuration Starting download for [URL REDACTED] With Arguments (based on your configuration): --output C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs%(title)s.%(ext)s --format b --recode-video mp4 --cookies-from-browser Firefox --abort-on-error -S vcodec:h264 Pre-script: None Post-script: None Download Hash: 6b76a5cffcfb73a77c1c30bf55e24161799c7b8872f8ab60c2eaabf2e3950d5e Extracting cookies from firefox Extracted 2670 cookies from firefox [youtube] Extracting URL: [URL REDACTED] [youtube] KJI_3HaLtmc: Downloading webpage [youtube] KJI_3HaLtmc: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON [youtube] KJI_3HaLtmc: Downloading player b0d2d49a-main [youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [youtube] KJI_3HaLtmc: Downloading m3u8 information [info] KJI_3HaLtmc: Downloading 1 format(s): 96 [download] C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\ MORE MORE JUMP � .mp4 has already been downloaded 100.0%,Unknown B/s,NA, 99.72MiB,finished, Unknown,C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\ MORE MORE JUMP � .mp4] [VideoConvertor] Not converting media file "C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\ MORE MORE JUMP � .mp4"; already is in target format mp4 [Library] Library item persisted: C:\Users\agte6\OneDrive\Documents\YouTube Saved Videos\MVs\ MORE MORE JUMP � .mp4 [Library] Subtitle indexer finished (manual): indexed=[] skipped=[] reason="no playlist row found for hash 6b76a5cf" [Library] Subtitle indexer finished (auto): indexed=[] skipped=[] reason="no playlist row found for hash 6b76a5cf" [generic] Extracting URL: res ERROR: [generic] 'res' is not a valid URL Process exited with code 1