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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:38:47PM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> If you do not specify an output format for youtube-dl to transcode the |
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> video and audio into, the application will use a matroska container: |
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> [ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Double Slit Experiment explained! by Jim Al- |
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> Khalili-A9tKncAdlHQ.mkv" |
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> which will retain the best video with the size you requested as h264 |
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> *and* the best audio it could find as opus. This will adhere to your |
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> request for a best video and best audio. |
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[...deletia...] |
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> On a practical level, if the mkv container is not suitable for you, |
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> you could instead restrict the audio format to m4a and then ytdl will |
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> download the .f140 file rather than .f251 and mux video and audio into |
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> an mp4 container - but arguably this won't represent the 'best' audio. |
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Thank you, that works for me. mplayer can handle mkv. I misunderstood |
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the man page and interpreted that specifying "--merge-output-format" was |
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mandatory if I wanted a merge. I ran youtube-dl and played back with |
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mplayer... |
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[youtube] A9tKncAdlHQ: Downloading webpage |
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[youtube] A9tKncAdlHQ: Downloading video info webpage |
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[youtube] Downloading just video A9tKncAdlHQ because of --no-playlist |
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WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. |
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[download] Destination: /home/waltdnes/ytdl/Double_Slit_Experiment_explained_by_Jim_Al-Khalili.f137.mp4 |
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[download] 100% of 31.55MiB in 00:17 |
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[download] Destination: /home/waltdnes/ytdl/Double_Slit_Experiment_explained_by_Jim_Al-Khalili.f251.webm |
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[download] 100% of 6.65MiB in 00:03 |
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[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "/home/waltdnes/ytdl/Double_Slit_Experiment_explained_by_Jim_Al-Khalili.mkv" |
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Deleting original file /home/waltdnes/ytdl/Double_Slit_Experiment_explained_by_Jim_Al-Khalili.f137.mp4 (pass -k to keep) |
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Deleting original file /home/waltdnes/ytdl/Double_Slit_Experiment_explained_by_Jim_Al-Khalili.f251.webm (pass -k to keep) |
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My ~/.config/youtube-dl/config is... |
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-f bestvideo[width<=1920]+bestaudio |
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--no-mtime |
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--no-playlist |
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-o ~/ytdl/%(title)s.%(ext)s |
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--restrict-filenames |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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