pomu.app - Livestream recording fails – Incident details

This incident has been resolved by migrating hosters to fly.io, as all our Hetzner IPs have been banned from YouTube.

Livestream recording works again. The only issue is that thumbnails do not get saved correctly, however this does not impact the archiving process.

Our previous fix did not work correctly for livestreams scheduled ahead of time. We have fixed that bug and are now monitoring for further issues.

We have implemented a fix for the issue by switching from youtube-dl to yt-dlp, as the DASH client implementation is taking longer than expected.

We are now monitoring for any issues.

We have identified the issue as pomu failing to grab an appropriate playlist url using youtube-dl to pipe to ffmpeg.

However, pomu is currently being rewritten to support a new file format and at current development progress fixing the existing issue does not make sense as the fix will be replaced soon anyways.

As a workaround, some important scheduled livestreams such as unarchived karaoke streams will be recorded manually and uploaded to the pomu-manual S3 bucket. The download url for these videos will be fixed up soon after the stream has finished.