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Shocking to see what passed as acceptable video quality back in 2007.

necovek 5y ago
Without checking, I would guess it was more related to limited upload speeds: video was probably recorded at a much higher bitrate, but then uploading that...
chrismorgan 5y ago
$ yt-dlp -F 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ' [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading android player API JSON [info] Available formats for xC5uEe5OzNQ: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── sb2 mhtml 48x27 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb1 mhtml 60x45 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb0 mhtml 120x90 │ mhtml │ images storyboard 139 m4a │ 1.55MiB 47k https │ audio only mp4a.40.5 47k 22050Hz low, m4a_dash 140 m4a │ 4.13MiB 127k https │ audio only mp4a.40.2 127k 44100Hz medium, m4a_dash 251 webm │ 4.11MiB 126k https │ audio only opus 126k 48000Hz medium, webm_dash 17 3gp 176x144 8 │ 2.67MiB 82k https │ mp4v.20.3 82k mp4a.40.2 0k 22050Hz 144p 160 mp4 192x144 25 │ 1006.62KiB 30k https │ avc1.4d400b 30k video only 144p, mp4_dash 278 webm 192x144 25 │ 1.70MiB 52k https │ vp9 52k video only 144p, webm_dash 133 mp4 320x240 25 │ 2.01MiB 61k https │ avc1.4d400d 61k video only 240p, mp4_dash 18 mp4 320x240 25 │ 9.42MiB 290k https │ avc1.42001E 290k mp4a.40.2 0k 44100Hz 240p 242 webm 320x240 25 │ 2.81MiB 86k https │ vp9 86k video only 240p, webm_dash None of these will be the format it was originally uploaded in, but I’d guess format 133 (~61 kbps) to be the closest for the video part, at 2MB. Judging by the sound of it, the original audio bit rate was probably higher than the video bit rate!
- ComodoHacker 5y ago
  I've been looking for youtube-dl with saner and parsable -F output. Thanks for suggestion!

Without checking, I would guess it was more related to limited upload speeds: video was probably recorded at a much higher bitrate, but then uploading that...

chrismorgan 5y ago

$ yt-dlp -F 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ' [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] xC5uEe5OzNQ: Downloading android player API JSON [info] Available formats for xC5uEe5OzNQ: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── sb2 mhtml 48x27 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb1 mhtml 60x45 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb0 mhtml 120x90 │ mhtml │ images storyboard 139 m4a │ 1.55MiB 47k https │ audio only mp4a.40.5 47k 22050Hz low, m4a_dash 140 m4a │ 4.13MiB 127k https │ audio only mp4a.40.2 127k 44100Hz medium, m4a_dash 251 webm │ 4.11MiB 126k https │ audio only opus 126k 48000Hz medium, webm_dash 17 3gp 176x144 8 │ 2.67MiB 82k https │ mp4v.20.3 82k mp4a.40.2 0k 22050Hz 144p 160 mp4 192x144 25 │ 1006.62KiB 30k https │ avc1.4d400b 30k video only 144p, mp4_dash 278 webm 192x144 25 │ 1.70MiB 52k https │ vp9 52k video only 144p, webm_dash 133 mp4 320x240 25 │ 2.01MiB 61k https │ avc1.4d400d 61k video only 240p, mp4_dash 18 mp4 320x240 25 │ 9.42MiB 290k https │ avc1.42001E 290k mp4a.40.2 0k 44100Hz 240p 242 webm 320x240 25 │ 2.81MiB 86k https │ vp9 86k video only 240p, webm_dash None of these will be the format it was originally uploaded in, but I’d guess format 133 (~61 kbps) to be the closest for the video part, at 2MB. Judging by the sound of it, the original audio bit rate was probably higher than the video bit rate!

ComodoHacker 5y ago
I've been looking for youtube-dl with saner and parsable -F output. Thanks for suggestion!