youtube-dl - select quality?
Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 08:08
According to the help info, there is no way of telling youtube-dl which audio and video quality it should download. [1]
Maybe one wants just to watch a silly clip (and later delete it) offline and one not needs the full-HD quality for that, so being able to e.g. choose 360, 480, 720 or 1080 would be a neat feature.
For now, it seems all that youtube-dl is able to do is always download the largest file / best quality.
Is there maybe a hidden parameter that would enable youtube-dl doing so?
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[1] The only hit for quality is this:
Maybe one wants just to watch a silly clip (and later delete it) offline and one not needs the full-HD quality for that, so being able to e.g. choose 360, 480, 720 or 1080 would be a neat feature.
For now, it seems all that youtube-dl is able to do is always download the largest file / best quality.
Is there maybe a hidden parameter that would enable youtube-dl doing so?
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[1] The only hit for quality is this:
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--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert
a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse)
for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K
(default 5)