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On 13/04/2019 14:44, Mick wrote: |
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>> It still insists on downloading the largest file. |
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> It is doing this because you're asking it to download a video of [height<=? |
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> 1280], and also download potentially separately an audio file - then mux them |
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> into one container file. A *height* of <=1280 means a resolution of more than |
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> 1080p. So, no wonder it wants to download a much larger video file. In |
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> addition, the question mark is used to download videos up to 1280 or videos |
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> where the height is not known. Therefore it could potentially download a |
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> bigger file if its height is somehow not declared in its web metadata. |
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He forgot to change "height" to "width". Dale needs to improve his |
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copy&paste skills :-) |
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Specifying a width of 1280 is better than specifying a height of 720 |
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when using youtube-dl, because a height of 720 might fail for videos |
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with an aspect ratio different than 16:9. But a width of 1280 is always |
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going to be what we call "720p" (even if the height is not actually 720 |
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pixels.) |
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