Quality problem

[Feuerhamster]

Hello.

Im using the latest version of ytdl-core.
If i download a video with {quality:"highest",filter:"audioandvideo"}, i get a video with sound, but in worst video quality.
If i download a video with {quality:"highestvideo",filter:"audioandvideo"}, i get a video with sound, but in worst video quality.
If i download a video with {quality:"highestvideo"}, i get a video with no sound, but in very good quality.

Thats bad because i would like to download the video with audio in high quality.

Greetings,
Feuerhamster

[TimeForANinja]

Hey,
the problem is that YouTube does only server video & audio up to 420p, after that you have to manually pack audio and video together in a container using sth like ffmpeg (only takes seconds if u do it right).

regards
TimeForANinja

[Feuerhamster]

Oh ok. That sounds complicated, because i dont know how download video & audio seperated and use ffmpeg.
I'm surprised, because a few month ago, the same module downloaded it with high video and audio quality.

[fent]

There's an example on how to use ffmpeg to do this
https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/blob/master/example/ffmpeg.js

Doing this ourselves in this module, would mean including ffmpeg in the codebase. Which some may not agree with as it goes against the pure js approach of this library, makes it less portable, and increases dependency filesize.

I have been considering creating an additional library that would do this and other common questions we get like downloading playlists.