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Choosing video quality to download #6926

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danvass opened this issue Sep 23, 2015 · 3 comments
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Choosing video quality to download #6926

danvass opened this issue Sep 23, 2015 · 3 comments

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@danvass danvass commented Sep 23, 2015

Hello,

Is it possible to select the a certain video quality (such as, 240p or 480p) and if they don't exist let the program choose which one to download as per usual?

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Daniel
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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Sep 23, 2015

You need complicated format filters. Here's an example:

youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height==480]+bestaudio/bestvideo+bestaudio/best' URL
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@danvass danvass commented Sep 23, 2015

@yan12125 Does that perform the functionality I described? My goal is to minimise the download time of the video so if the video is lower quality I presume it will download quicker.
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@yan12125 yan12125 commented Sep 23, 2015

If you're downloading the lowest quality video, -f "worstvideo+worstaudio" may be what you need.
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