How can I avoid the DASH format?

[montanaflynn]

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We have ran into problems with the DASH format served by youtube and would like to avoid that format. I couldn't find out how to do this with the format selectors. I did find a somewhat related issue (#1808) which would allow us to avoid them but that is a super old and unclosed issue.

Here's the video and all it's formats:

youtube-dl -F  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6dgtBU6Gs"
[youtube] lC6dgtBU6Gs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] lC6dgtBU6Gs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] lC6dgtBU6Gs: Extracting video information
[youtube] lC6dgtBU6Gs: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for lC6dgtBU6Gs:
format code  extension  resolution note
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 2.80MiB
171          webm       audio only DASH audio  135k , 1fps, vorbis@128k, 2.54MiB
160          mp4        256x144    DASH video  110k , avc1.4d400c, 15fps, video only, 2.37MiB
242          webm       426x238    240p  184k , vp9, 1fps, video only, 3.37MiB
133          mp4        426x238    DASH video  249k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only, 5.32MiB
243          webm       640x358    360p  355k , vp9, 1fps, video only, 6.27MiB
134          mp4        640x358    DASH video  375k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 6.07MiB
244          webm       854x478    480p  664k , vp9, 1fps, video only, 11.78MiB
135          mp4        854x478    DASH video  716k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 12.19MiB
17           3gp        176x144    small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36           3gp        320x180    small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18           mp4        640x358    medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43           webm       640x360    medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k (best)

[dstftw]

-f bestvideo[protocol!=http_dash_segments].

[montanaflynn]

Thanks!

[4goettma]

I didn't had success with the solution given by @dstftw . Also the --youtube-skip-dash-manifest flag just works for videos on Youtube.
The solution I came up with was using -f best. To cite the README.md/Format Selection: "best: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio." Since dash format is often composed of a seperate audio and video track, this parameter forced youtube-dl to choose the conventional video file.