Ok, I cannot get the video I used as an example to play its audio. The .webm file I downloaded played fine. Thus far I have not found a way to make it work. I tried brew install ffmpeg to no avail. Crap.
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I haven't run into this issue with
youtube-dl. But I also don't think I've encountered any.webmfrom youtube. Did you pass--recode-video?I did not try that. Frankly, I suspect it was an unfortunate edge case. I downloaded a few others to test and they all worked. I downloaded several using Linux and all of them worked. I still believe it it is a solid tool, and dead easy.
Yeah, I think YouTube still has some old codex formats that they have yet to update.
It is so solid that it often works well with non-YouTube urls. I grabbed a few Facebook videos with it. And I think it even works with sites that aren’t officially supported if they do standard embeds.