160k audio download disappeared (YouTube)

[I21b]

After 3.6.1

Originally posted by @InfinityLoop1308 in #346 (comment)

2024/11/3:

#460 #480 Fixed

[I21b]

[faustaahmad]

Use YTDLnis to download youtube video/audio
I stopped relying on Newpipe & it's fork to download videos, they are not bad
yt-dlp just have better stability and faster update incase something broken.

Well that's just a suggestion, it wont help to fix the main problem.

[InfinityLoop1308]

To address the 403 error we have to use the ios extractor instead of the web extractor, but some qualities doesn't exist on ios ...
You can use yt-dlp if you need those qualities.

[whistlingwoods]

To address the 403 error we have to use the ios extractor instead of the web extractor, but some qualities doesn't exist on ios..

@InfinityLoop1308 sorry for the ping , NewPipe downloads 160k opus audio streams fine in latest version.

Test Link for screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbrPldr0g8

[whistlingwoods]

This YT channel's videos have high quality uploads with actual dolby 5.1 surround audio Eac3.
Test Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYqLKu4UFaA

NewPipe shows more quality options to download from but except AC3 & eAC3 which of course NewPipe extractor does not provide/support yet, Apps like YTDLnis or Seal may be the best for such 5.1 audio files as they use yt-dlp, but for opus & m4a audio files with various bitrate options, PipePipe should do the job as it is upto the clients to fetch them from extractor as NewPipe does it.

[whistlingwoods]

I think PipePipe needs to cherry pic commits from these downloader methods/fixes containing PRs

1. Add whitelist to only retrieve supported YouTube itags/streams TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#9748
2. Improve audio stream selection for video-only streams in the downloader TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10446
3. Download fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10912
4. Fix downloads of streams with missing MediaFormat TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10165

Edited 20-10-2024:
No, I was wrong to mention above PRs(they surely enhance experience) but PipePipe Extractor actually is not fetching webm audio streams since YouTube broke fetching of streams with 403 responses code twice on 25July & again early August 2024 I think it was fixed here but webm audio misses being parsed , but how NewPipe Extractor seemingly parses webm audio remains to be investigated.

[I21b]

Looks like it appears again

[whistlingwoods]

Looks like it appears again
Test Link for screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbrPldr0g8

No, opus doesn't appear as audio option, I checked again on test link given above and other YouTube videos.

Problem is compounded further Webm downloads are without audio so can't download videos in webm format either.

[whistlingwoods]

@I21b would you reopen it & adjust name of the issue to reflect latest findings that webm video downloads are also not available

[I21b]

@I21b would you reopen it & adjust name of the issue to reflect latest findings that webm video downloads are also not available

I think it will be better if you open a new issue

[InfinityLoop1308]

Our extractor is a little bit outdated, so YouTube only return us limited formats, which cause many issues including #460,
#315, #480, etc.
I have updated it and a new version with the patch will be release soon. Before that you can test using apk from the latest CI.