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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user] Re: youtube-dl has been very slow
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-11-08 16:31:10
Message-ID: smbjcf$rb0$1 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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On 08/11/2021 17:57, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> What was the reasoning/motivation behind the fork?  I see the yt-dl
> subreddit recommending yt-dlp as you have here, but not explanation
> other than the throttling being experienced and described here.

It was a fork that added things youtube-dl didn't want to add. They are 
described on their github page:

   https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

One thing they added in particular that I find great is the ability to 
specify which codec to prefer. I want AV1, which is the highest quality 
codec on youtube. Before, I had to do this:

--format=bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?2500][width<=?2560]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=we \
bm][width>?2500][width<=?2560]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?2500][width<=?2560] \
+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?1800][width<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext= \
webm][width>?1800][width<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?1800][width<=?192 \
0]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ex \
t=webm][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?1100][width<=?1 \
280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[e \
xt=webm][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?800][width<=?10 \
24]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?600][width<=?800]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext \
=webm][width>?600][width<=?800]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?600][width<=?800]+ \
bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=web \
m][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?400][width<=?580]+best \
audio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][w \
idth>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/best


But with yt-dlp I only have to do this:

   --format-sort=width:2560,height:1440,vcodec:av1

If that's not a win, I don't what is :)


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