Don't download vp9

README.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ A mobile friendly tool for downloading videos from social media.
 The backend is is a Golang server that will take a URL (YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, etc),
 download the video file, and return a URL to download the video. The video will be transcoced as needed to produce a single mp4 file.
 
+Note: This is for home use only. There's no auth.
+
 ![GitHub Logo](static/images/screenshot1.png)
 
 ![GitHub Logo](static/images/screenshot2.png)

src/media/fetch.go

@@ -118,10 +118,11 @@ func downloadMedia(url string) (string, error) {
 	log.Info().Msgf("Downloading %s to %s", url, id)
 
 	cmd := exec.Command("youtube-dl",
-		"--format", "bestvideo+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best",
+		"--format", "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best",
 		"--merge-output-format", "mp4",
 		"--restrict-filenames",
 		"--write-info-json",
+		"--verbose",
 		"--output", name,
 		url)
 

src/media/serve.go

@@ -78,9 +78,5 @@ func streamFileToClient(writer http.ResponseWriter, filename string) {
 	}
 
 	// Copy the file to the client
-	if _, err = io.Copy(writer, Openfile); err != nil {
-		log.Error().Msgf("Error copying file %s %v", filename, err)
-		http.Error(writer, "Couldn't copy file", 404)
-		return
-	}
+	_, _ = io.Copy(writer, Openfile)
 }