Node-ytdl-core: Live streams

[dan-online]

I can't seem to load live YouTube videos. Other videos all work but live streams just fail instantly but doesn't throw any errors. I can fetch info but not load the stream.

[Parcanss]

Same issue here, however in my case the stream will play for about 5 seconds and then will stop. After outputting the audio to a file instead of a Discord voice channel I also found that it stopped outputting after 5 seconds. (I'm on the latest version - v0.29.0)

[HcgRandon]

Also seeing this. having some other strange issues with resolved urls as well (even non livestreams) (fixed) More info later as I get it @fent

[conver4y]

Same issue here. It's strange. When we play the music, then the bot is joined. Playing the music, then 5 seconds just stop without any error.

[sharplol]

Same. Normal(non livestream) links play for about 1 minute or so, and end. Livestreams don't even start to play. That's when using .playStream with discord.js. However when outputting audio stream into a file with fs, it outputs correctly, and you can hear whole stream. Strange. I'm on latest version, there are also no errors in console whatsoever.

[FireController1847]

Reopening because of #407 claiming this issue is still apparent.

[dan-online]

So there are no errors but here is what's happening

1. Search for video
2. Find video
3. The video returns all its info
4. Get the video URL
5. Play the URL but it doesn't load but also doesn't throw any errors

[dan-online]

Update: Sometimes it plays for about 10-30 seconds becomes very glitchy and stops streaming

[dan-online]

Here is a video:
https://cdn.glitch.com/fa6aa6ac-9c39-4c5d-a548-fae5a48c6580%2FScreen%20Recording%202019-02-02%20at%202.03.49%20PM.mov?1549112980848

[silvinator]

Im having the same issue

[BrunoMoreira99]

I also use ytdl-core to play YouTube videos on a Discord Bot, I'm using Eris lib.

So, before I was doing something like this:

// info is a youtube video info gotten from ytdl.getInfo()
const stream = () => ytdl.downloadFromInfo(info, { filter: 'audioonly' });
connection.play(stream());

With this setup, I noticed through stream().on("info", (info, format) => { console.log(format) }) that the format itag ytdl was picking was 140. This is not a livestream itag, so this will likely be a small audio file with just a few seconds, which is proven by how the Discord bot proceeded to play the livestream for just a few seconds, much like @MayorChano demonstrated in this video.

Then, I changed to something like this:

const stream = () => ytdl.downloadFromInfo(info, info.livestream ? { quality: [128,127,120,96,95,94,93] } : { filter: 'audioonly' });
connection.play(stream());

With this I check if the video is a livestream and if so I make ytdl pick a format itag from [128,127,120,96,95,94,93] which are a few livestream "compatible" itags. This time ytdl picked the format with itag 94. Unfortunately, the bot did not play the livestream at all, not even a few seconds, it stopped immediately. Then I got the url of this format (again through .on("info")) which was

https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/expire/1557566613/ei/NUDWXPnmJ8OAhAfGuYSgBw/ip/188.37.241.72/id/OkwonUHvJf4.0/itag/94/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/cmbypass/yes/goi/160/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/sgovp/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D135/hls_chunk_host/r1---sn-8vq54vox2u-v2ve.googlevideo.com/gcr/pt/playlist_type/LIVE/initcwndbps/9900/mm/32/mn/sn-8vq54vox2u-v2ve/ms/lv/mv/m/pl/18/dover/11/keepalive/yes/mt/1557544941/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,cmbypass,goi,sgoap,sgovp,gcr,playlist_type/sig/ALgxI2wwRgIhAMnsPURHKD3s6d-sU0lgVDjboOn6Lt-dX1AmwdcqMNoPAiEA06zQ7GeThaEWbmBMu3_gfpvE7joel52dBLGjr6A5CjE%3D/lsparams/hls_chunk_host,initcwndbps,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl/lsig/AHylml4wRQIhAIQw32VP8zAYPVNAlcu69N4A5ItlnDMnoi_WRNKbr1GzAiBBdxe3ulN6SpUQ77YvSVzL75w2C_tDpmX3SJRF8NnlAQ%3D%3D/playlist/index.m3u8

I tried to play directly from this url, which I know Eris can do, so... something like this:

connection.play("insert that huge url here");
// Edit: the code below is now my "workaround" until the issue is fixed.
const stream = () => {
    if (info.livestream) {
        const format = ytdl.chooseFormat(info.formats, { quality: [128,127,120,96,95,94,93] });
        return format.url;
    } else return ytdl.downloadFromInfo(info, { filter: 'audioonly' });
}
connection.play(stream());

And with this the bot proceeded to play the livestream properly, it played it fine and did not stop until I told it to stop ~ 1 hour-ish later. It did play with a few sound "glitches" sometimes, but I'll consider that a win. 👍

I hope this piece of info is useful in finding a solution for this issue. 👍

[Roki100]

its not ytdl issue, its your code issue, because works fine for me :>

[fent]

is this still happening for people? i'm not able to replicate using ytdl and the command

ytdl [video_id] | mpv -

[dan-online]

Its back to working for me so I think it might have been a youtube error. I'll close this.