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On 08/01/2022 07:26, Dale wrote: |
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> This is the line from the old youtube-dl.conf that worked for it: |
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> --format 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' |
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The "--format-sort" option is much better for this. To prefer 720p video |
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or lower, but not higher: |
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--format-sort=width:1280,height:720,vcodec:av1 |
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The AV1 codec preference is nowadays default, but I like to specify it |
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anyway. AV1 has the smallest video size but at the same time the highest |
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video quality as well. If AV1 is not available, it will fall back to VP9 |
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(higher quality, bigger size,) and then to H.264 (lower quality, smaller |
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size.) |
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