-f '(mp4)[height=1080' ERROR: requested format not available

[QrchackOfficial]

Built in resolution setting (Max quality) probably has a typo, at least for subscriptions:

The issue appeared yesterday after I pulled the nightly Docker image to update my copy

Sample:

Error while retrieving info on video with URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ucN1ETDXTE with the following message:
Error: Command failed with exit code 1:
/app/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl -o subscriptions/channels/w2aew/%(title)s.%(ext)s
--write-info-json --print-json -f '(mp4)[height=1080'
--cookies appdata/cookies.txt --write-thumbnail --embed-subs
--mark-watched --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en -r 50K --embed-subs
 --mark-watched --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --dump-json http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ucN1ETDXTE
ERROR: requested format not available

Note the lack of closing bracket near -f '(mp4)[height=1080'. So far I've worked around this by setting Max quality to best and adding a global custom arg, but this is probably a bug so I'm reporting here.

[ghost]

I'm having this same issue and the same cause when using lower resolutions as well.

[a1ad]

Same here, I can't download any video of my subscriptions. @QrchackOfficial what custom arg do I need to add?

[QrchackOfficial]

At the moment I'm using yt-dlp downloader and added this as my global custom args:

--embed-subs,,--mark-watched,,--write-auto-sub,,--sub-lang,,en,,-f,,best[height<=1440][ext=mp4]/best[height<=1440]/best[ext=mp4]/best,,-r,,50K

All subscriptions are set to "Best" Max quality with no custom arguments.

[GlassedSilver]

Please restart your YoutubeDL-Material container. (and consider pulling the latest nightly of the docker container as well)

That will trigger an update of yt-dlp (if you use that, which I recommend!). A new release of yt-dlp dropped yesterday and it helped a LOT with my downloads succeeding! :)

Alternatively you can bash into your YTDL-M container and update the yt-dl fork binary like so (regardless of which binary you selected by the, but again, yt-dlp is the recommended one):

/app/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl -U

[GlassedSilver]

Blocked by #544 as far as I can tell. Progress on this will be tracked there from now on. Feel free to discuss there.