On 11Dec2020 14:17, home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >bash.6[~]: youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX9hOfz5A >I put the output in the attached text file "output.txt". >If I understood things correctly, >"youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX9hOfz5A"; >will give me 1280x720 video and 22050Hz audio as "best". How is that >"best"? It seems that "best" would be 1920x1080 video and 48000Hz >audio. How do I get that in one file that VLC can play properly? Note that VLC isn't your only choice. I use mpv a lot myself. youtube-dl looks for a config in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. Mine says: --cache-dir '~/.cache/youtube-dl' --add-metadata --xattrs --no-mtime -o '%(title)s--%(uploader)s@youtube--%(upload_date)s--%(resolution)s--id=%(id)s.%(ext)s' -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio/best[ext=mp4]/best' The -f option is what you want for control. It doesn't always seem to do what I want, but that is the section of the manual you want. The above often chooses a MKV download for me, maybe because of audio formats? For purposes of my DVR I convert MKVs to MP4s with: ffmpeg -i blah.mkv blah.mp4 >Another question: If I want to know what resolution was used to make >the original video and audio, and download with the result being that, >how do I do it? I don't know if the "original" format is a knowable thing, I just presume youtube itself doesn't upscale and that therefore the highest res should be the original. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
