youtube-dl: Embedding thumbnail to mp3 causes a error of file not found.

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  • I’m reporting a broken site support issue
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Verbose log

Enter youtube link here
: https://youtu.be/EmuBOfurv3o
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.9.7 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-55702-g920046a, ffprobe N-55702-g920046a
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] EmuBOfurv3o: Downloading webpage
[youtube] EmuBOfurv3o: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] EmuBOfurv3o: Writing thumbnail to: C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://rr3---sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1673060111&ei=r4q4Y7XKFpL6WZHhiogJ&ip=82.20.109.132&id=o-ABJG1zZD9xhRDoI0mygZaA-sn8GKrAXQCfedDAIETFW1&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=Hl&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoz%2Csn-aigzrnld&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=24&gcr=gb&initcwndbps=1452500&vprv=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=d2TFtsH5f29GfvewFyI1bsYK&gir=yes&clen=3652610&dur=218.881&lmt=1591477016463657&mt=1673038191&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246&c=WEB&txp=5531432&n=TzRconJyS9f2typNK&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cgcr%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cns%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhAJVxiFfSM06d1_ZYmKMk6jhglWpU9-0YH_kltRReOQYcAiEA0VDOLjdBtxCK37s53cgcwHcP8-6U7UOmKJLWNIezNuc%3D&sig=AOq0QJ8wRAIgRJWXXrTtel1uWPH1zK0jIr5-zvgmAlgVaQVIj2VH7loCIEOVpuTSB_t2UQabcAHc3HT7uUPTs557ZZxfrgwh-MPk'
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[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams "file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webm"
[ffmpeg] Destination: C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).mp3
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webm" -vn -acodec libmp3lame "-b:a" 192k "file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).mp3"
Deleting original file C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webm (pass -k to keep)
[ffmpeg] Converting thumbnail "C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp" to JPEG
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp" "-bsf:v" mjpeg2jpeg "file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).jpg"
[debug] ffmpeg version N-55702-g920046a Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers

  built on Aug 21 2013 18:10:00 with gcc 4.7.3 (GCC)

  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib

  libavutil      52. 42.100 / 52. 42.100

  libavcodec     55. 29.100 / 55. 29.100

  libavformat    55. 14.101 / 55. 14.101

  libavdevice    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100

  libavfilter     3. 82.100 /  3. 82.100

  libswscale      2.  5.100 /  2.  5.100

  libswresample   0. 17.103 /  0. 17.103

  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100

[image2 @ 00000000006ecc80] Could find no file with path 'file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp' and index in the range 0-4

ERROR: file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2115, in post_process
    files_to_delete, info = pp.run(info)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\embedthumbnail.py", line 70, in run
    self.run_ffmpeg(escaped_thumbnail_filename, escaped_thumbnail_jpg_filename, ['-bsf:v', 'mjpeg2jpeg'])
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 242, in run_ffmpeg
    self.run_ffmpeg_multiple_files([path], out_path, opts)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 238, in run_ffmpeg_multiple_files
    raise FFmpegPostProcessorError(msg)
youtube_dl.postprocessor.ffmpeg.FFmpegPostProcessorError: file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp: No such file or directory

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2115, in post_process
    files_to_delete, info = pp.run(info)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\embedthumbnail.py", line 70, in run
    self.run_ffmpeg(escaped_thumbnail_filename, escaped_thumbnail_jpg_filename, ['-bsf:v', 'mjpeg2jpeg'])
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 242, in run_ffmpeg
    self.run_ffmpeg_multiple_files([path], out_path, opts)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.py", line 238, in run_ffmpeg_multiple_files
    raise FFmpegPostProcessorError(msg)
youtube_dl.postprocessor.ffmpeg.FFmpegPostProcessorError: file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp: No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\download videos.py", line 26, in <module>
    ydl.download([video])
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2068, in download
    res = self.extract_info(
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 808, in extract_info
    return self.__extract_info(url, ie, download, extra_info, process)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 847, in __extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 881, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1692, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2050, in process_info
    self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2117, in post_process
    self.report_error(e.msg)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 628, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "C:\Users\Tayga\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 598, in trouble
    raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: file:C:\Users\Tayga\Desktop\videos\Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp: No such file or directory

Description

A exception is raised when embedding the video thumbnail to the mp3 file, The program is unable to find the file despite the fact the file exists in the correct directory, The problem hasn’t occurred when working on another computer with Windows 11 but occurs here on Windows 10 both computers have the same dependencies and running the same version of python

I am not sure what has caused this bug and I am unable to propose a solution due to this

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: open
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments: 19 (11 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

It looks like @nicolaasjan is manually supplying -qmin 1 -q:v 1 -metadata synopsis=with --ppa. It’s not being added by yt-dlp

This is indeed the case.

+1
nicolaasjan on Jan 29, 2023

For the embedding, there are these two yt-dlp commits that make up the diff above:

At some point this comment applied and probably still does:

# Write id3v1 metadata also since Windows Explorer can't handle id3v2 tags

For the conversion:

ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:/dev/shm/test-ytd/Tusk (2018 Remaster).webp' ...

--qmin 1 -q:v 1 -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg 'file:/dev/shm/test-ytd/Tusk (2018 Remaster).jpg'
+-update 1 -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg -movflags +faststart -qmin 1 -q:v 1 -metadata synopsis= 'file:/dev/shm/test-dlp/Tusk (2018 Remaster).jpg'
  • -update 1 has to be added according to this issue for new ffmpeg builds.
  • -movflags +faststart is only relevant for MP4/MOV destination containers, so not for MP3 (fun fact: the + means just set faststart and don’t reset any other movflags, which was “so obvious that it went without saying” in the _ffmpeg_docs).
  • synopsis= is forcing an empty description but from the yt-dlp code I have no idea how it came to be there (would be comment= in yt-dl or, I guess, with yt-dlp compat set).

So I think -update 1 and the ID3 options have to be added.

+1
dirkf on Jan 11, 2023

Thanks for this research.

On Linux the thumbnail is shown in both cases.

What, after copying to the Windows test machine? That’s the acid test.

The postprocessor code has evolved somewhat in yt-dlp. It’s possible that there’s some subtle difference in the ffmpeg command lines used for the embedding, and/or for the MP3 extraction, such that the yt-dlp result matches Win10 Explorer’s understanding of MP3 cover art better. Use --verbose to show the ffmpeg command lines.

Windows versions may differ. In the olden days there was a separate shell extension that could be inspected separately but who knows what’s going on in the too-bad-for-open-source Windows code.

+1
dirkf on Jan 11, 2023

for the first line I receive this:

Desktop>ffmpeg -f image2 -pattern_type -i aaa.webp -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg aaa_1.jpg
ffmpeg version N-55702-g920046a Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Aug 21 2013 18:10:00 with gcc 4.7.3 (GCC)
  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
  libavutil      52. 42.100 / 52. 42.100
  libavcodec     55. 29.100 / 55. 29.100
  libavformat    55. 14.101 / 55. 14.101
  libavdevice    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100
  libavfilter     3. 82.100 /  3. 82.100
  libswscale      2.  5.100 /  2.  5.100
  libswresample   0. 17.103 /  0. 17.103
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
File 'aaa.webp' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, image2, to 'aaa.webp':
Output file #0 does not contain any stream

the second command did create a file called aaa_2.jpg which contains the nordic landscape the output was this

Desktop>ffmpeg -i aaa.webp -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg -update 1 aaa_2.jpg
ffmpeg version N-55702-g920046a Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Aug 21 2013 18:10:00 with gcc 4.7.3 (GCC)
  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
  libavutil      52. 42.100 / 52. 42.100
  libavcodec     55. 29.100 / 55. 29.100
  libavformat    55. 14.101 / 55. 14.101
  libavdevice    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100
  libavfilter     3. 82.100 /  3. 82.100
  libswscale      2.  5.100 /  2.  5.100
  libswresample   0. 17.103 /  0. 17.103
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, image2, from 'aaa.webp':
  Duration: 00:00:00.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: webp, yuv420p, 550x368, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
[swscaler @ 0000000002656260] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
Output #0, image2, to 'aaa_2.jpg':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf55.14.101
    Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 550x368, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (webp -> mjpeg)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[mjpeg @ 0000000002667f80] input is not MJPEG/AVI1
Failed to open bitstream filter mjpeg2jpeg for stream 0 with codec mjpeg: Invalid data found when processing input
frame=    1 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize=N/A time=00:00:00.04 bitrate=N/A
video:34kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead -100.062528%
+1
p3nguinmeme on Jan 8, 2023
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