format selection by bitrate (vbr>123) appears to be broken #33054
Description
Checklist
- I'm reporting a broken site support issue
- I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
- I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
- I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
- I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
- I've read bugs section in FAQ
Verbose log
D:\ffmpeg-bin>youtube-dl -F eU4NVFsnhg8
[youtube] eU4NVFsnhg8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] eU4NVFsnhg8: Downloading TVHTML5 API JSON
[info] Available formats for eU4NVFsnhg8:
format code extension resolution note
251-drc webm audio only audio_quality_medium 118k , webm_dash container, opus (48000Hz), 507.27MiB
251 webm audio only audio_quality_medium 118k , webm_dash container, opus (48000Hz), 509.79MiB
140 m4a audio only audio_quality_medium 129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz), 555.63MiB
140-drc m4a audio only audio_quality_medium 129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz), 555.63MiB
160 mp4 256x144 144p 120k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 516.86MiB
243 webm 640x360 360p 440k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 1.84GiB
134 mp4 640x360 360p 584k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 2.45GiB
136 mp4 1280x720 720p 2187k , mp4_dash container, avc1.64001f, 30fps, video only, 9.17GiB
18 mp4 640x360 360p 712k , avc1.42001E, 30fps, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz) (best)
D:\ffmpeg-bin>youtube-dl -v -f "136[vbr>800]+140" eU4NVFsnhg8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', '136[vbr>800]+140', 'eU4NVFsnhg8']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2025.02.07 [711e72c29] (single file build)
[debug] ** This version was built from the latest master code at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.
[debug] ** For support, visit the main site.
[debug] Python 3.4.4 (CPython AMD64 32bit) - Windows-10-10.0.22621 - OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n5.1.6-9-gdcdfd7fb62-20241109, ffprobe n5.1.6-9-gdcdfd7fb62-20241109
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] eU4NVFsnhg8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] eU4NVFsnhg8: Downloading TVHTML5 API JSON
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig OkcttjHjr5dCOAIQ => hZR2vNaM02p0Mg
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig t4nZTSgjVyqH7cDm => SClZOjSMp7mEHw
ERROR: requested format not available
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 879, in wrapper
File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 986, in __extract_info
File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1020, in process_ie_result
File "D:\a\ytdl-nightly\ytdl-nightly\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1856, in process_video_result
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: requested format not available
Description
-f 136[vbr>800]+140 should match the available video format (it is 2187 kbps), shouldn't it? Yet it doesn't. 136[vbr<800] doesn't give a match either.
The same command-line works in yt-dlp, it seems.