YouTube Live #80

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opened 2026-02-20 21:01:43 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

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2026-02-20 21:01:43 -05:00

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Originally created by @joshtriplett on GitHub (Apr 12, 2011).

YouTube Live streams work with URLs that look like regular YouTube videos, complete with a video ID, but youtube-dl produces this error: "no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info".

The video info probably contains the information on the stream rather than the usual video URL. Given the nature of a live stream, it would probably make sense to provide a URL to pass to an external player, assuming that the YouTube player doesn't do anything magic that a local video player can't replicate. However, downloading would also make sense in some cases, and hopefully old URLs continue to work and support downloading.

Originally created by @joshtriplett on GitHub (Apr 12, 2011). YouTube Live streams work with URLs that look like regular YouTube videos, complete with a video ID, but youtube-dl produces this error: "no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info". The video info probably contains the information on the stream rather than the usual video URL. Given the nature of a live stream, it would probably make sense to provide a URL to pass to an external player, assuming that the YouTube player doesn't do anything magic that a local video player can't replicate. However, downloading would also make sense in some cases, and hopefully old URLs continue to work and support downloading.