I'm trying to download entire seasons of a particular show I can't find quality torrents of all 26 seasons anymore. I'm using a tool called yt-dlg which is simply a GUI for yt-dlp which is a fork of YouTube-dl.exe. Now, with that out of the way.

So, I right click the channel off the iPlayer page with my trusty VPN on and select copy clean link. I paste it into the GUI, it begins parsing and off we go. Depending on the season, it's through in about 30mins. BTW, it pulls the files down and reassembles them into an MP4 container with a MPEG-TS video and AAC audio stream.

All good, right? Wrong! Although the videos play fine in VLC, I receive an error at the end of the batch process stating "Possible MPEG-TS in MP4 container or malformed AAC timestamps. Install ffmpeg to fix this automatically". Greek to me so I proceed to my converter of choice, FastFlix and drop the file in for cropping/conversion to HEVC/AC3 and when I start the conversion I get the error message "Invalid Timestamps..." over and over while the file attempts to render.

Any mateys out there with more brains than me, HELP! I'm lucky I could even remember all this. LOL

All positive support appreciated!!!

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried ffmpeg? If anything's able to fix this, its ffmpeg.

[–] Rodrigo_de_Mendoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Yup, it was an ffmpeg issue. I tried ffmpeg-batch to download and didn't have any problems at all. However, I only just noticed the resolution on iPlayer SUCKS! I mean it's 720p when the originals were 480p and it's worse than the Xvid copies I have now. Ugh! LOL Oh well.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I usually use Stacher as my gui for yt-dlp, a fork of the original youtube-dl.

This gui has all of the settings and conversions and stuff built-in, including ffmpeg.

If you're on Windows, it's worth giving a shot.

[–] Rodrigo_de_Mendoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I liked Stacher but it didn't want to seem to parse out all the videos from the Playlist. Probably a settings or something I missed. Might try it again. Thanks for the input though!

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 23 hours ago

https://redlib.minihoot.site/r/youtubedl/comments/qzqzaz/can_someone_please_post_a_simple_guide_on_making/