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Gennaro Arguzzi
Gennaro Arguzzi

Reputation: 858

Best audio and video quality not working in youtube-dl

I tried the following command in order to get the best video and audio quality (I can also avoid to write --format best because from the documentation I read that this is the default setting):

youtube-dl.exe --format best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfUUZvybPY

and I got a video.mp4 with the following characteristics:

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I downloaded the same video by using 4k Video Downloader and I got:

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How can I get the same result also by using youtube-dl?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4332

Answers (2)

Neo Mn
Neo Mn

Reputation: 587

use

yt-dlp

insted . its a new fork of youtube-dl with new features and fixes and you should use this option >>

yt-dlp --merge-output-format webm http://youtube-url

this will download the best audio and video quality and fixes no audio issue

Upvotes: 3

pierpy
pierpy

Reputation: 1310

You can parse all formats available with:
youtube-dl.exe -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfUUZvybPY
Look at first column, "format code". For this video, best option is:
youtube-dl --format 315 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfUUZvybPY for 3440x1440 video, and
youtube-dl --format 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfUUZvybPY for 129kbit audio.
Then, with ffmpeg, you can merge that two streams in your preferred container (you can find many answers here in Stackoverflow).
For very high bitrates there isn't a file already merged available on YouTube, ffmpeg is a crucial tool for this type of conversions!

Upvotes: 3

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