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The only thing that irritates me about youtube-dl is that by default it will try download audio and video tracks separately and then remux them on your computer
by lottin 11y ago
The only thing that irritates me about youtube-dl is that by default it will try download audio and video tracks separately and then remux them on your computer. While it's a cool feature, I don't think this is what most people want 99% of the time.
- brigade 11y agoMost of the time I've seen this come up in non-technical circles, the person wanted an MP3 to put in their library.
- pja 11y agoThat’s because the best quality streams are delivered that way by Google so if you want the higher quality video+audio you have to download them separately and remux them locally.
- asddubs 11y agoDon't know why this is being downvoted. VLC can play .part files of many formats, but not if they're seperate streams. I wish there was a way to just download the highest format that will download only one file.
- clarry 11y ago-f best It's in the documentation.
- asddubs 11y agono, that's the highest format, not the highest format that will download in one file, as opposed to two which have to be merged, meaning playing .part files is impossible
- clarry 11y agoAre you saying the documentation is wrong? And not once but twice: You can also use special names to select particular edge case format: * best: Select best quality format represented by single file with video and audio And again: > Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best as default format selection (see #5447, #5456). If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading bestvideo and bestaudio separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to best and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file
- asddubs 11y agooh duh, sorry. I thought I read somewhere that best was the default option