FFMPEG excited with code 1: pipe 0: invalid data found while processing input

[syedahmedshah2013]

Hey! Guys this bug is still present in the package. Moreover now I am also getting error very frequently from this package:

Unable to retrieve video meta data.

These two error are really pain please address these as the package is not working on 70% of the videos.

v0.7.5

Same problem

[cwienands1]

I ran into the same issue. For the time being I helped myself the following way...

1. Use the ytdl-core package to download the .mp4 file.
2. Then use ffmpeg from the command line to perform the conversion. ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 filename.mp3

Funny thing is that ffmpeg doesn't have any issue with the downloaded files, only when the data gets passed in as stream. Could it be that youtube-mp3-downloader sets certain ffmpeg options that clash with the video data? My command line conversion above uses all default settings. Or, could it be there is an OS-specific issue? Encoding? Line endings?

I'm on Windows. @syedahmedshah2013 and @EAT-CODE-KITE-REPEAT , what's your OS?

[nehoraigold]

I experienced this while trying to download a longer-than-usual video (~15 min). However, I changed the youtubeVideoQuality setting to lowestaudio (instead of highestaudio) and it didn't happen again. Obviously not an actual solution, but hopefully it helps in the meantime and/or with identifying the root cause of the problem.

[Lizard-King101]

It would be great if this unhanded error was handled and passed back to the error event.

[abozas]

Same problem on MacOS for really long videos (more than 2 hours).
Hope someone will check on this problem

[GlitchlessCode]

This issue is still happening, at least to me. In my case it seems to occur any time I try to download any video longer than about 10-11 minutes. I don't have any insights into what would be causing this problem, just pointing out that it's still happening.