Video grabber QoL enhancement.

[S8F8ry]

My bad not noticing that latest version has improvement on that. Thanks for considering!
But there seem to be couple flaws:
- no sound is played if there is some problem while downloading(only icon blinking);
- download complete sound for some reason sometimes "gets lost"(doesn't sound).
Is there a chance to add settings for a user to pick own 2 sounds?

BTW, i couldn't check if there is a progress shown in taskbar, cause latest Cent groups all its windows = is there an option in Settings to control that grouping?

We will check this sound issue. As for windows combining together, that's the taskbar configuration in the personalization settings of the Windows system.

[rey]

As for windows combining together, that's the taskbar configuration in the personalization settings of the Windows system.

Thanks for the hint! Shame on me not remembering when/why did i change that grouping.
Now i see progress is not implemented.

BTW, most probably it has nothing to do with Cent and solely yt-dlp thing, but maybe you can advice smth too. While comparing 5.1.1130.129 and 5.2.1168.83, i noticed the new grabber sometimes works worse than old one on same sites = the old one can show estimated number of pieces to download and properly catches the desired video resolution selected in site's player; the new one on contrary shows N/A and always grabs only the top quality resolution available, not caring what was selected in site's player.
Is there a chance maybe for some settings/cookies that control that selected resolution catch?

[S8F8ry]

Thanks for the hint! Shame on me not remembering when/why did i change that grouping.
Now i see progress is not implemented.

BTW, most probably it has nothing to do with Cent and solely yt-dlp thing, but maybe you can advice smth too. While comparing 5.1.1130.129 and 5.2.1168.83, i noticed the new grabber sometimes works worse than old one on same sites = the old one can show estimated number of pieces to download and properly catches the desired video resolution selected in site's player; the new one on contrary shows N/A and always grabs only the top quality resolution available, not caring what was selected in site's player.
Is there a chance maybe for some settings/cookies that control that selected resolution catch?

According to the explanation in Does yt-dlp automatically download the highest quality audio+video or do I need to specify that?, this behavior seems to depend on whether yt-dlp detects the presence of ffmpeg. When ffmpeg is unavailable, it will download the available media; otherwise, the default is to download separate high-quality video and audio streams.

[rey]

Thanks again for hints!

this behavior seems to depend on whether yt-dlp detects the presence of ffmpeg.

Yet that's what actually strange: same site/same video but yt-dlp in Cent 5.1.1130.129 grabs it proper, while newer in 5.2.1168.83 fails and takes top quality = so it's not about ffmpeg, but either yt-dlp changed smth in it's methods between these two Cent versions, or newer Cent calls yt-dlp differently than before.

BTW, i've heard yt-dlp can actually provide variants of what it can grab - how about adding that to Cent grabber?(quality selection)
It's probably quite a lot of work, but i can't hold to ask.

[S8F8ry]

Thanks again for hints!
Yet that's what actually strange: same site/same video but yt-dlp in Cent 5.1.1130.129 grabs it proper, while newer in 5.2.1168.83 fails and takes top quality = so it's not about ffmpeg, but either yt-dlp changed smth in it's methods between these two Cent versions, or newer Cent calls yt-dlp differently than before.

BTW, i've heard yt-dlp can actually provide variants of what it can grab - how about adding that to Cent grabber?(quality selection)
It's probably quite a lot of work, but i can't hold to ask.

Does the version of yt-dlp.exe under User Data\MiscTools differ between the 5.1 and 5.2 versions in your system? Visit chrome://version in your browser and look at "Profile Path" to find the user data directory.

[rey]

Does the version of yt-dlp.exe under User Data\MiscTools differ between the 5.1 and 5.2 versions in your system?

Nope, same 2026.3.18.53738. In fact, both MiscTools folders are totally the same.(sizes and versions )

That makes it even more interesting, cause as i noticed in 5.1 videos were downloaded via creating .CBTMP.TS files as a temporary, while 5.2 downloads via creating .PART files = so it's same video, same yt-dlp, but looks like different Cent approach to detecting/catching available quality.