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Quality Differential from Browser Viewing #24620
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I'm looking at the quality of the video in browser vs quality of downloaded video (best)
Source in this particular instance is Wistia
Browser sample: https://www.screencast.com/t/SF7gNC2s
Download sample: https://www.screencast.com/t/xYtSV2DFf
youtube-dl version: 2020.03.24
youtube-ld -F yields:
iphone-360p mp4 640x360 280k , mp4 container, h264, 2.67MiB
md_mp4-720p mp4 1280x720 532k , mp4 container, h264, 5.07MiB
original bin 1280x720 427k , 4.07MiB (best)
Both:
tube --cookie cookies.txt -f md_mp4-720p URL
and
tube --cookie cookies.txt -f original URL
produce similar result shown in "Download sample" provided above
Ultimately any text is effectively unreadable
Are sites like Wistia becoming smarter and feeding two different quality streams, one higher quality to browser, the other to download, or is a conversion happening over fmtp that results in poor lossy quality?
Am I missing something?
Is there a solution within reach?
thanx