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Hello Community!

I am trying to convert / stream a youtube video into a file. It worked exactly one time two days ago and now any new tries ends up in tiny file containing just a second of streaming. In principle I create a playlist first from the media information, that displays the location of the video. Then I open this location and save it as playlist, to select that same playlist for the convert / stream. // This indirect methods sounds wired, but it seems the recommended method for youtube videos.

Then my problem starts. Once the streaming is started, I need to confirm a row of overwrite warnings. I tried overwrite or keep, but ultimately my output stream file just contains a second of streaming. The streaming itself takes a very long time, but the file remains tiny and small. At the end of the streaming another overwrite warning pops up, but the file remains tiny. No idea where the output is ending up.

Any suggestion what could be going wrong?

Thanks a lot!
Mark

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1lUP- ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14aU_Qk ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qn_Tr1 ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hJsbM3 ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nTAP41 ... sp=sharing

Maybe I found a work-around for myself.

I accept all overwrite warnings at the beginning of the stream, two in total. - Once the stream is at the end, another third overwrite warning appears. I made a duplicate of the output file, before accepting this third overwrite again. The duplicate contains the whole stream, while the original output file becomes again tiny and empty after this last overwrite.

For me those overwrite warnings are like a flaw and buggy behavior in the stream feature.

I gave up using vlc to download from youtube, after I found youtube-dl. Much smoother and lean method via terminal.