[gentoo-user] Re: youtube-dl has been very slow

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/11/2021 17:57, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:

> What was the reasoning/motivation behind the fork?  I see the yt-dl
> subreddit recommending yt-dlp as you have here, but not explanation
> other than the throttling being experienced and described here.


It was a fork that added things youtube-dl didn't want to add. They are 

described on their github page:



   https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp



One thing they added in particular that I find great is the ability to 

specify which codec to prefer. I want AV1, which is the highest quality 

codec on youtube. Before, I had to do this:



--format=bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?2500][width<=?2560]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?2500][width<=?2560]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?2500][width<=?2560]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?1800][width<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?1800][width<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?1800][width<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?600][width<=?800]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?600][width<=?800]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?600][width<=?800]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/best



But with yt-dlp I only have to do this:



   --format-sort=width:2560,height:1440,vcodec:av1



If that's not a win, I don't what is :)