Looks like the issue is worse than we thought. See post 48 and 49.
Looks like we have a video that has eluded all youtube-dl and yt-dlp bugtrackers. Nothing can download this video right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSj6-HxozXc
What’s curious is it has been encoded in AV1. The browser can decode it after a certain time, (it does not startup immediately) but this could be signs of server side youtube-dl or yt-dlp blocking.
BTW, wondering why youtube-dl is noticeably behind in development? The main dev moved house and has life to deal with:
There’s no way you can speed up that process so we have to move on to use yt-dlp.
Trooper_Ish@Ubu2004Red:~/Downloads$ youtube-dlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSj6-HxozXc
[youtube] xSj6-HxozXc: Downloading webpage
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: NICE AND EASY _ Ben and Ed #8-xSj6-HxozXc.f299.mp4
[download] 100% of 554.39MiB in 01:54
[download] Destination: NICE AND EASY _ Ben and Ed #8-xSj6-HxozXc.f251.webm
[download] 100% of 14.03MiB in 00:03
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "NICE AND EASY _ Ben and Ed #8-xSj6-HxozXc.mkv"
Deleting original file NICE AND EASY _ Ben and Ed #8-xSj6-HxozXc.f299.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file NICE AND EASY _ Ben and Ed #8-xSj6-HxozXc.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
my VPN is not god at evading geoblocking (I can’t use it for foreign Netflix etc…)
So I would say give -dlc a go (but it’s your life. You do you)