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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Yeah, he's a real hero [emoji23]

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Inpain:
Ahahahahahha.... holy molly i can not stop laughing at this.. i'm dying here lollollol
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Wandeta:
Kitkat ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Only Android 5.0+ are supported.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
Older version of arktube worked on my previous phone Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo, CM 11 and Stock Touchwiz. Only function that didn't worked is downloading audio to opus format. (it needs 5.0 or higher)

IDK about new version though.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Logan:
2nd post in the thread changelog at v 5.4 :
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] leoni1980:
Hi,

Love this app - I've been using it for years, but whichever device I use - be it a cheap Nokia 3 or a top of the line 8GB-RAM-toting monster - I get videos that sometimes just STOP downloading. It's not the video at fault as often if I start the video downloading again it begins and finishes as a separate thread. The problem is that if stops on the 'initialising download' notification then gets stuck in my notification area until I reboot the phone. There's no way to remove it.

I'd like to see a 'reboot all downloads' option or something similar, for instances where videos have stopped downloading or where videos have failed to even initalise.

I'm not sure if it's my fault for the way I do things but I often go through my subs on YouTube and download loads at once.

Maybe I'm pushing Arktube more than most?

Either way, amazing app - best I've ever used in terms of simplicity and convenience and the best purchase I've made in the Play Store.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
I'll usually just try again with the same video if it get stuck like you described, most of the times for me is when my phone change network automatically in the background (I have 3 wifis at home for best coverage) (-:

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] thevirgonian:
I get the same issue sometimes as well. If I stop ARKTUBE, then try to redownload the video, it will download the video where it left off. However, I agree...if there was a way within Arktube...maybe even in the notification area, where you can just "re-start download" or "re-initialize download", then it would be perfect. It is by far the best YouTube downloader available, however.

The only other thing I would love to see is, directly from the YouTube "Share" when you go to download the video...if you can have multiple resolutions. I have mine automatically set to download at 720p60fps since I download mostly video game videos...but I also download political videos and some others, and I certainly don't need that, usually just 360p or 480p, which would save space and bandwidth. If you could make it so you could have multiple resolutions directly from the Youtube share, that would be awesome. And yes, I have tried to install Arktube with cloning apps such as AppClone and Parallel Apps, but those don't read the license correctly and I end up having to reinstall Arktube from scratch.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
Yeah ! [emoji106]

Restart dl would be awesome. [emoji847]

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sieem:
What I do when arktube seems to be stuck is long press the notification, choose more settings and the notification as the least important so android removes the notification and then put it back to automatically or which level you had set before. No idea actually if this stops arktube from running, but you got rid of the notification :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Thats just hiding the Notification. Why not Force Close the whole App?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sieem:
That is what I did before, but some reason that doesn't remove the notifications anymore. I think it's because I started he use Greenify, but I'm not sure.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ChangeToTower:
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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
arter97, could you please make a color difference of icons in the share menu for audio and video in the next update? For example, make a red icon for audio? Is it possible? It would be great and helpful for usability in modern browsers.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fivefour:
Not a bad idea.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] smohanv:
I am tired of the installtion process hence why I stopped using it for a while. After seeing a lots of updates I am impressed and wanting to use again. I already bought donation pack long back. I went to play store and installed donation pack that I previously purchased and installed arkTube. When open the app after passing through all initial screen it shows up warez warning message. Is there any specific order I have to install these apps. I tried uninstall and reinstall several times.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Search the Topic. Most likely scenario, you are using something that is indeed classified as Warez like LP.

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pichai:
I have two problems. First, the app cannot be purchased in my country or region. Second, it does not support multiple languages! Unfortunately!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Good idea.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] noobhero:
thanks for the hard work sire.

came across your app while searching for a youtube audio downloader.

and since i need the audio functionality, i donated w/o trying.

awesome it is dead simple to use.

browse in main app, need anything, just share to.

one thing i can't understand is, there's a burst downloading speed. 7 - 8 MB/s

few seconds later, it drops to constant 700+ KB/s

why so?

1 GB line

home wifi 5 ghz

connection is great. and I'm using a OnePlus 5T

how can I speed things up a bit?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Deco-:
It's probably due to Google imposing bandwidth restrictions - enable Dynamic Download on the app itself.

If it's enabled, then there's nothing you can do.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] noobhero:
thanks sir! i will try
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Abdo Aldoori:
Aorry it was my mistake I had to remove some apps to get it work properly ..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KLit75:
Longtime user of arktube here. Im having trouble activating it with the donation package. Tried many different variations of installing the apk/installing donation, vice versa, reboot etc but all the features remain greyed out.

I just updated my ROM. Anyone else facing this issue?

I remember it being a little finicky in the past but nothing like this. Thanks

Bit more info--theres a persistent notification that says

Arter97

2/3 Contacting Google...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lammpat:
+1 same issue here.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Maybe you have a broken version of the Play Store?

https://www.xda-developers.com/latest-play-store-breaks-license-verification-paid-apps/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KLit75:
Thanks! That fixed it!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lammpat:
+1
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nitinji:
License failure

Hi, I have bought the license and I am continuously getting the error. Once my order is automatically cancelled. I have latest version of playstore and arktube as well. Look the images here. I really dont want refund. Can you help me in fixing the issue. I am using LOS 15.1
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nitinji:
With so many license related issues from playstore, why can you implement unique key based unlocking from within the app itself. Like paying through paypal and inserting the transaction id or something like that. It will also save the commission shared to google. You will have to think of some more methods, otherwise how many payment you will return.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SuperSandro2000:
Can you read? Read your 2nd screenshot
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nitinji:
I can read. Can you read? Read my 4th screenshot. I have purchased the app from the playstore.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
I don't think it matter if we bought it (and) have for ex, Luckypatcher installed, It will trigger Arktube anyway. Atleast I had Luckypatcher on my old phone and got the same error even tho I never had used it.

Uinstall similar apps and follow the instructions [emoji106]

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nitinji:
I already got the reply from the dev, I have removed those 2 app. Its working now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
Marvelous! :)

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SuperSandro2000:
You still can't read. He literally wrote it there.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] could you add separate preferred resolution options for 30 and 60fps? For 30fps I would like 1080p and for 60fps, 720p (this is the maximum my device can handle with vp9). Thank you!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zgi:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION], can you add timeout function for failed download attempts? Sometimes initializing download never completes...

Please see attached picture.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
This would be a great addition imho because if this happens the App needs to be Force Closed to work again.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] warmq:
could you implement the 720p video download that already has the audio merged into the file?:confused:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
On my wife's not rooted SGS7e I could abort a failed download just last week, I clicked on the notification and it asked me if I would like to abort the download, however when I tried to repeat this on my 3t, 5t, N7 or N4 it didn't work...

Maybe I'm hallucinating or there's an option I haven't figured out yet (or it depends on the device / OS), no idea but wanted to ask [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] anyway...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zelendel:
That's because Samsung touch experience that is doing that. That's is why you don't see it anywhere else on other devices.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] andre0005:
Is it possible to get pro features without installing a separate app by donating directly or something?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
No, unless dev plans to implement this. Currently he needs the unlocker in the PlayStore to be able to use the license check but can not publish arkTube directly because it is against Google's policy (download videos from YouTube)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Will do, but I can't think of an Android device that cannot handle 1080p60 VP9 video.

Which device are you rocking?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
This is a bit frustrating for me as there are multiple stages to initializing a download, and I've made an option for cancellation as much as possible for every stages.

If you can't cancel the download during initialization, that means you've ran into some pretty edge cases.

I'll go over the code again and see if I can come up with a bulletproof method for cancelling downloads.

This is especially hard for me to reproduce as it happens mostly with poor internet connections, and Korea has a stellar connection all over the place..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
I don't understand. Why exactly would you need to download a deprecated format?

YouTube serves 720p+audio formats only for extremely old internet browsers and devices.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
A generic device with MT6753 and Mali-T720

One question, the download process has differences depending on the version of Android? In stock rom 6.0 I feel that the download of arkTube works much better, more stable and resuming normally. In a custom AOSP 7.1.1, arkTube gets stuck in the process of initializing the download (when trying to resume) is more frequent.

Honestly I did not understand why he linked that article, but from what I know the only benefit would be not to need as much free space as the current implementation requires 2x the filesize (video + audio) to complete correctly. But you know about YouTube more than I do and YouTube probably only serves video with embedded audio for a few formats so it should not be too exciting to spend time implementing it
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Depends on what they're doing. If they're doing some weird background app throttling / extreme Doze mode or causes extreme stress on the memory so that arkTube can't allocate memory properly, then it may behave differently.

Other than that, network should be the only factor, which also then, a poorly made ROM can screw up on.

Well unless you're downloading a multi-gig video, that shouldn't be much of a problem. Yes, current arkTube method uses 2x the space needed for the download. But if you don't have the space to cache just a couple hundred MBs, you are in a very bad shape anyways.

Filesystem performance will be devastatingly slow, alongside with caching issues from other apps, not just arkTube.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Hey Arter97,

you may have already seen this previous conversation,

https://xdaforums.com/general/paid-...mate-youtube-downloader-t3321818/post77299999

it seems to be the case that on Samsung devices and you probably know this already, (i.e. S7e and s8) the download in progress (useful especially in case the download hangs) can be aborted by a short tap on the notification, this will show a dialog which asks the user if the download should be dismissed.

I never saw this function elsewhere (OOS, lineageOS on the N4, N7 or custom ROMs on various other devices, etc.) and it also looks like this behavior is controlled by the system (i.e. Samsung's OS "Samsung Experience"), not the app.

Would it be possible to implement something like this into the app itself, for me it happens from time to time when downloading music (audio only) that a download gets stuck at home using Wi-Fi with perfect connection, this is noticed by a persistent "initialize download" notification by arkTube (which can be only dismissed by holding the notification to bring up the notification menu to and disallow notifications for arkTube altogether, then obviously the notification is gone, even if notifications for arkTube are directly enabled again this notification of the failed download won't come back. Other option is reboot of course.

Therfore it would be totally awesome if there could be something done, if I miss something obvious please let me know, I also would love to provide logs if of any help.

Thanks for the great support of arkTube, I recently had a look at alternative apps but I feel arkTube is by far the best and most convenient way to download stuff from YouTube... At least for me :o
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Deco-:
As far as i'm aware, this is due to all downloads being handled by Samsung's Download Manager which has this utility, (hence it handles all downloads), but AOSP's version does not - meaning downloads are automatically terminated after a timeout period. I suspect this is why the notification hangs, it occurs with other apps too.

A way to go around this is to have Chrome act as an intermissionary for downloads, as various chrome://flags allow for things such as automatically retrying a failed download.

Whether this is possible however is an entirely different story.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nomailx:
This App doesn't support Android Youtube versions of Videos. It just a usual youtube downloader you can find online. Still no replacement of ogyoutube which allows the download of videos meant for the App.

(It doesn't download videos exlusive to Android Youtube App, like some 4K VR 3D videos meant only for the Android Cardboard. For that you need to mod the actual Youtube App, like ogyoutube did).
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] paul70078:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] On my phone (Honor 9 Lite) when I share a youtube link to arktube the download hangs in initialisation until i share another video. The second video gets ignored by arktube but triggers the quality/format selection
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tazmaniac666:
Not working on the latest youtube update
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Great, now the Dev would have everything he needs to work out the problem. If everyone would include such detailed descriptions and Logs XDA would be perfect.

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tazmaniac666:
Just says unsupported video, how to fetch logs ?

YouTube version 13.35.51

Ark tube version 6.1.3

Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work neither did the downgrading of YouTube.

---------- Post added at 10:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:27 AM ----------

Could it be this issue?

"Earlier today, the app stopped

working as users got a "Could not decrypt video URL

signature" error. It turns out some changes in the YouTube

backend are causing the issue, and other unofficial apps are

experiencing it as well.

The good news is a workaround is already in the works. The

folks over at youtube-dl have figured out a solution and it could

potentially roll out to NewPipe later today. This is always

concern with unofficial apps. At a moment's notice, they can be

completely useless. But the developers of these apps are

usually on top of the ball when it comes to changes. A fix can

usually be found in a reasonable amount of time. It should be

noted that this does not affect YouTube Vanced since that is

mod of the official app, not a separate client."

Source : XDA Dashboard
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Yes and arter97 is already working on the fix. As far as I know, it would only be necessary to update the built-in youtube-dl, but since it is necessary to launch a new update, he may want to take advantage of and implement other changes

https://mobile.twitter.com/arter97/status/1038299356456075269
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MACHEK:
So should we be expecting an update on the app itself ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
A new update is up, addressing feedbacks since the last release

and fixing "unsupported" error.

Let me know if anything else goes wrong.

7.0

Fixed an error causing many videos to be shown as unsupported

youtube-dl engine updated to 2018.09.08

aria2c updated to 1.34.0

ffmpeg updated to 4.0.2

Python updated to 3.7.0

OpenSSL updated to 1.0.2p

Android NDK updated to r17c

Share menu icons redesigned for extra distinguishability

Improved downloads cancellation to work much more reliably

Added timeout setting of 1 minute to download initialization

Update notification will now show changelog too

Added an option for allowing or preferring 60 fps videos

Other misc bug fixes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Seems like a huge update with lots of useful additions, thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pocketjose:
Thanks for the good work.

Could you please add 360p to the auto select resolution feature? The lowest I can choose is 480p.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
The goal of arkTube development is to keep it streamlined and simple.

Why would you even want to download such low resolution?
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[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] I am unable to download any YouTube playlist after updating to arkTube 7.0. The same works from a script I have written using youtube-dl and ffmpeg.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Author: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
# Description:
# o Script to sync youtube playlists incrementally
# o Does not delete local file yet on track removed from playlist

# Requires: 'brew install youtube-dl ffmpeg AtomicParsley'
# Play list format:
#	Name: playlist.txt
#	Format: Folder#Link_To_Playlist
#	Example:
#	Relaxing#https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi1G_ofYu0uVzWvYqzg2qSIEiL8IwUPrZ
#	Instrumental#https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi1G_ofYu0uU6S-UeWD80b2-OYRGwyMV_

TMPDIR=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}

# Common options to youtube-dl
OPTS="-q -x --ignore-errors --skip-unavailable-fragments --no-warnings --no-mtime --no-post-overwrites"
OPTS="${OPTS} --prefer-ffmpeg --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --audio-format m4a --audio-quality 3"
OPTS="${OPTS} --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --metadata-from-title \"%(title)s\""

# Cleanup leftover from previous run - doing it here allows debugging
rm -fr ${TMPDIR}/synctube.*

CACHE=`echo ${TMPDIR}/synctube.$$|tr -s '/'`
rm -fr ${CACHE}
mkdir ${CACHE}

echo "Cache folder: ${CACHE}"
echo "Options: ${OPTS}"

if [ "${ACTION}" = "echo" ] ; then
set -x
fi

# Read playlists for sync from file or argument
INPUT="$*"
if [[ -z ${INPUT} && -f playlist.txt ]] ; then
INPUT=`grep -vE "^[ \t]*#" playlist.txt|tr '[\t ]' '_'|sed 's/\&/\\&/g'`
fi

for ent in ${INPUT} ; do
dir=`echo $ent|cut -d'#' -f1`
url=`echo $ent|cut -d'#' -f2`

if [ ! -d ${dir} ] ; then
mkdir ${dir}
fi

2>/dev/null youtube-dl -i --get-id ${url} > ${CACHE}/${dir}.id.txt

for id in `cat ${CACHE}/${dir}.id.txt` ; do
compgen -G "${dir}/*-${id}.m4a" > /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "https://youtu.be/${id}" >> ${CACHE}/${dir}.playlist
fi
done

if [ -f ${CACHE}/${dir}.playlist ] ; then
echo "Processing ${dir}:"
cat ${CACHE}/${dir}.playlist | nl
${ACTION} youtube-dl ${OPTS} -o ${dir}/"%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --batch-file ${CACHE}/${dir}.playlist &
fi
done

wait
set +x
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pocketjose:
Because I watch videos in a pop-up while doing other tasks and so I don't need high resolutions. In addition, I save up bandwidth and space.

By the way, I don't think adding 360p would make the app more complex. It isn't a new feature what I'm requesting. Just adding the 360p support to the auto select resolution option.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Fair enough, will add it in the next version.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Anyone having issues with the donation APP from Play Store?

It's not being recognized by arkTube after updating, it keeps popping up the "you're using the free arkTube version" info, despite having the donation package installed...

No matter what option I chose (OK or GO TO PLAY STORE) the premium features are grayed out, rebooted several times but no dice!

Log attached:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mu-QYLQBTtstWk7s6_8KeVOfVN5vXIDT/view?usp=drivesdk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pocketjose:
Thank you.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
360p already there
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
No, there isn't.

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
Find attachmentView attachment 4592926
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
That isn't the auto feature. ;)

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
New version for fixing playlist downloads is up.

7.0.1

Fixed an error breaking playlist downloads

360p option added to auto download functionality

Playlist downloads are now queued much faster

Playlist notifications are better handled

Fixed an error causing playlist cancellation to stuck on initialization notification

Fixed a parsing error on some videos with AV1 codec

- AV1 support is planned when YouTube provides high resolution tracks with AV1
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
Okay I understood![emoji16]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cmac0351:
I no longer see the Video download option after upgrading to 7.0.1. Audio is in the share list but not video.