[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olH7Au9YGA', '--ignore-config', '--verbose', '--no-warnings', '--progress', '--newline', '--progress-template', '[Parabolic] Progress;%(progress.status)s;%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes_estimate)s;%(progress.speed)s;%(progress.eta)s', '--progress-delta', '.75', '-t', 'sleep', '--no-mtime', '--no-embed-info-json', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe', '--js-runtimes', 'deno:C:\\Users\\Slitter\\AppData\\Local\\deno.exe', '--paths', 'D:\\Slitter\\5 Komischer kram\\Album - Amaeru - EP', '--paths', 'temp:D:\\Slitter\\5 Komischer kram\\Album - Amaeru - EP', '--output', 'Karma (Anime).%(ext)s', '--output', 'chapter:%(section_number)03d - Karma (Anime).%(ext)s', '--print', 'after_move:filepath', '--plugin-dir', 'C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\plugins', '--force-overwrites', '--windows-filenames', '--format-sort', '+vcodec:av01,res,+acodec:opus,quality', '--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', '--embed-metadata', '--postprocessor-args', 'Metadata+ffmpeg:-metadata track=7', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--exec', 'before_dl:"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"', '--exec', 'before_dl:del %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q', '--exec', 'before_dl:move "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg" %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q', '--embed-chapters', '--extract-audio', '--audio-quality', '0', '--audio-format', 'opus', '--format', 'bestaudio', '--postprocessor-args', 'ffmpeg:-threads 20']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No ANSI), error cp1252 (No ANSI), screen cp1252 (No ANSI)
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2026.06.09.230517 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [821bef0f0] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.26200-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524 (setts), ffprobe n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.05.20, curl_cffi-0.15.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.34.2, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.7.0, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.8.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Extracting cookies from firefox
[debug] Extracting cookies from: "C:\Users\Slitter\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1sua1afe.default-release\cookies.sqlite"
[debug] Firefox cookies database version: 17
Extracted 2706 cookies from firefox
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
[debug] Post-Processor Plugins: srt_fixPP
[debug] Plugin directories: C:\Program Files\Nickvision Parabolic\Release\plugins\srt_fix\yt_dlp_plugins
[debug] Loaded 1739 extractors
ERROR: Unsafe conversion(s) in exec command: '"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"'
Conversions such as %()s are too dangerous to be used in --exec command templates; use %()q instead. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-69qj-pvh9-c5wg for details
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 833, in __init__
File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\exec.py", line 10, in __init__
File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\common.py", line 58, in __init__
File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\exec.py", line 18, in set_downloader
File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1514, in prepare_outtmpl
File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1444, in create_key
yt_dlp.utils.UnsafeExecExpansionError: Unsafe conversion(s) in exec command: '"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"'
Conversions such as %()s are too dangerous to be used in --exec command templates; use %()q instead. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-69qj-pvh9-c5wg for detailsApp: Nickvision Parabolic
Version: 2026.5.0
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10.0.26200
Deployment Mode: Local
Locale: de-DE
Running From: C:\Program Files\Nickvision Parabolic\Release
NativeAOT: True
Database encrypted: True
Log path: C:\Users\Slitter\AppData\Local\Nickvision Parabolic\app.log
yt-dlp: 2026.6.9.230517
deno: 2.8.2
ffmpeg: n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524
aria2: 1.37.0
AllowPreviewUpdates = True
AriaMaxConnectionsPerServer = 16
AriaMinSplitSize = 20
AudioBitrate = 1,7976931348623157E+308
AudioFormatIds = {
"Video": "BEST_AUDIO",
"MP4": "BEST_AUDIO",
"MKV": "BEST_AUDIO",
"WEBM": "BEST_AUDIO",
"MOV": "BEST_AUDIO",
"AVI": "BEST_AUDIO",
"Audio": "BEST_AUDIO",
"MP3": "BEST_AUDIO",
"M4A": "BEST_AUDIO",
"OPUS": "BEST_AUDIO",
"FLAC": "BEST_AUDIO",
"WAV": "BEST_AUDIO",
"OGG": "BEST_AUDIO"
}
AudioOnlyFileType = 9
CookiesBrowser = 5
CookiesPath = ""
CropAudioThumbnails = True
DownloadImmediatelyAsAudio = True
DownloadImmediatelyAsVideo = False
EmbedChapters = True
EmbedMetadata = True
EmbedSubtitles = True
EmbedThumbnails = True
ExportDescription = False
ExportM3U = False
FullFileType = 9
HistoryLength = -1
IncludeAutoGeneratedSubtitles = True
IncludeMediaIdInTitle = False
IncludeSuperResolutions = True
installed_deno_appversion = {
"BaseVersion": "2.8.2",
"PreviewLabel": ""
}
installed_yt-dlp_appversion = {
"BaseVersion": "2026.6.9.230517",
"PreviewLabel": ""
}
MaxNumberOfActiveDownloads = 10
NumberTitles = False
OverwriteExistingFiles = True
PostprocessingThreads = 20
PostProcessorArgumentName = ""
PreferredAudioCodec = 3
PreferredFrameRate = 0
PreferredSubtitleFormat = 0
PreferredVideoCodec = 2
PreventSuspend = False
ProxyUrl = ""
RemoveSourceData = False
ReverseDownloadOrder = False
SaveFolder = D:\Slitter\5 Komischer kram
ShowDisclaimerOnStartup = False
SpeedLimit = ""
SplitChapters = False
SubtitleLanguages = []
Theme = 2
TranslateMetadataAndChapters = False
TranslationLanguage = ""
UseAria = False
UsePartFiles = True
VideoFormatIds = {
"Video": "BEST_VIDEO",
"MP4": "BEST_VIDEO",
"MKV": "BEST_VIDEO",
"WEBM": "BEST_VIDEO",
"MOV": "BEST_VIDEO",
"AVI": "BEST_VIDEO",
"Audio": "NONE_VIDEO",
"MP3": "NONE_VIDEO",
"M4A": "NONE_VIDEO",
"OPUS": "NONE_VIDEO",
"FLAC": "NONE_VIDEO",
"WAV": "NONE_VIDEO",
"OGG": "NONE_VIDEO"
}
VideoResolution = {
"Width": 2147483647,
"Height": 2147483647
}
WindowGeometry = {
"Height": 700,
"IsMaximized": false,
"Width": 1169,
"X": -1170,
"Y": 8
}
YouTubeSponsorBlock = False
YtdlpDiscoveryArgs = ""
YtdlpDownloadArgs = ""basically, i want to have albumcovers embedded in my music downloads from youtube.
i want the albumcovers to be in 1:1 aspect ratio and the setting in parabolic to automatically crop it has stopped working since the latest yt_dlp update and it says that its because of an unsafe conversion prompt that got patched out.
URL
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mV9Mqpx7xNnu3OOmOsfeNa9rzCU0_Zwqs&si=GZmXP4aqd0vmxAd_
Download Log
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olH7Au9YGA', '--ignore-config', '--verbose', '--no-warnings', '--progress', '--newline', '--progress-template', '[Parabolic] Progress;%(progress.status)s;%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes_estimate)s;%(progress.speed)s;%(progress.eta)s', '--progress-delta', '.75', '-t', 'sleep', '--no-mtime', '--no-embed-info-json', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe', '--js-runtimes', 'deno:C:\\Users\\Slitter\\AppData\\Local\\deno.exe', '--paths', 'D:\\Slitter\\5 Komischer kram\\Album - Amaeru - EP', '--paths', 'temp:D:\\Slitter\\5 Komischer kram\\Album - Amaeru - EP', '--output', 'Karma (Anime).%(ext)s', '--output', 'chapter:%(section_number)03d - Karma (Anime).%(ext)s', '--print', 'after_move:filepath', '--plugin-dir', 'C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\plugins', '--force-overwrites', '--windows-filenames', '--format-sort', '+vcodec:av01,res,+acodec:opus,quality', '--cookies-from-browser', 'firefox', '--embed-metadata', '--postprocessor-args', 'Metadata+ffmpeg:-metadata track=7', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--exec', 'before_dl:"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"', '--exec', 'before_dl:del %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q', '--exec', 'before_dl:move "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg" %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q', '--embed-chapters', '--extract-audio', '--audio-quality', '0', '--audio-format', 'opus', '--format', 'bestaudio', '--postprocessor-args', 'ffmpeg:-threads 20'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No ANSI), error cp1252 (No ANSI), screen cp1252 (No ANSI) [debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2026.06.09.230517 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [821bef0f0] (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.26200-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524 (setts), ffprobe n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.05.20, curl_cffi-0.15.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.34.2, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.7.0, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0 [debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.8.2 [debug] Proxy map: {} Extracting cookies from firefox [debug] Extracting cookies from: "C:\Users\Slitter\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1sua1afe.default-release\cookies.sqlite" [debug] Firefox cookies database version: 17 Extracted 2706 cookies from firefox [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Post-Processor Plugins: srt_fixPP [debug] Plugin directories: C:\Program Files\Nickvision Parabolic\Release\plugins\srt_fix\yt_dlp_plugins [debug] Loaded 1739 extractors ERROR: Unsafe conversion(s) in exec command: '"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"' Conversions such as %()s are too dangerous to be used in --exec command templates; use %()q instead. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-69qj-pvh9-c5wg for details Traceback (most recent call last): File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 833, in __init__ File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\exec.py", line 10, in __init__ File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\common.py", line 58, in __init__ File "yt_dlp\postprocessor\exec.py", line 18, in set_downloader File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1514, in prepare_outtmpl File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1444, in create_key yt_dlp.utils.UnsafeExecExpansionError: Unsafe conversion(s) in exec command: '"C:\\Program Files\\Nickvision Parabolic\\Release\\ffmpeg.exe" -i %(thumbnails.-1.filepath)q -vf crop="\'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)\':\'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)\'" "%(thumbnails.-1.filepath)s.tmp.jpg"' Conversions such as %()s are too dangerous to be used in --exec command templates; use %()q instead. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-69qj-pvh9-c5wg for detailsDownload Options
OPUS
BEST QUALITY
audio only
Debugging Information
Additional context
basically, i want to have albumcovers embedded in my music downloads from youtube.
i want the albumcovers to be in 1:1 aspect ratio and the setting in parabolic to automatically crop it has stopped working since the latest yt_dlp update and it says that its because of an unsafe conversion prompt that got patched out.