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Unable to download enhanced bitrate videos (format ID 616) even with YouTube premium #6786
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The logs say otherwise. Why do you think it's not? |
when i run the command with -F it says the file should be 66mb |
The If you download format
It seems that youtube is exaggerating the bitrate somewhat for these 1080p HLS formats:
which explains the discrepancy between the approx filesize and actual filesize. Note that this actual bitrate is still higher than any other available format's bitrate |
Per RFC 8216 the YouTube does not provide the Edit: Per a YouTube blog post from a few days ago they plan to roll out this "enhanced" quality on the web player soon. So from then on the rendition should be available as a DASH variant and the size displayed should be correct. |
I just downloaded it and it seems to be working. and it seems like it doesn't even need a premium account. Might be changed later ?? Here is the command i used to download the premium version yt-dlp -f "616+251" --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=all" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuAcdIqcanA" I used all so i can try 251 which is the highest audio in opus codec. I compared the one with 614+251 and 616+251 and it does seem to be bigger. and this is without any account used. Might be needed in the future tho |
Yeah, this, alongside the wrong filesize reported, appears to have been the cause of so much confusion |
Yeah true. It is weird how we can download it without a premium account. is it the same for premium audio or the 320kbps or something audio? also, it is weird how "premium" 1080p is not on all videos. It is only on some videos, and the average bitrate ranges from 1.5x of the original or sometimes 2x. So far haven't seen it on any gameplay streams so i can't judge that well. Would be nice if they applied it on some gameplay streams so we can actually see if it is worth the size etc |
Seems like it is available here |
Nevermind, just had to use --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=all" |
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I checked that the video does indeed have an enhanced encode beforehand by using -F -cookies-from-browser chromium --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=ios" but it does not download ID 616 when running yt-dlp -f 616 --cookies-from-browser chromium --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=ios" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuAcdIqcanA
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>
)'verbose': True
toYoutubeDL
params instead[debug] Command-line config
) and insert it belowComplete Verbose Output
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