Re: [gentoo-user] Re: youtube-dl and mpv.conf file

[Dale]

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


This is what I have right now.

root@fireball / # cat /etc/youtube-dl.conf
--format
bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best
root@fireball / #

When I told it to download a video as a test, it got this:

root@fireball / # exiftool
/home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Food/long-path.mp4.part | grep size
File Size                       : 2016 kB
Movie Data Size                 : 493157
Image Size                      : 1280x720
root@fireball / #

So it seems to pick out the right size this way.  If it burps one day,
I'll try removing the ? from it.  That seems to have another option I
like to, get .mp4 if available.  I think.  It did anyway.  :/  Time will
tell. 

For now, this will work, I think.  lol

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)