On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 02:01:58AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > youtube-dl -f best > > This is stupid, it's the default. > And really unkind to your proxies. > > Better is something like... > --prefer-free-formats -f '[tbr<=128]'
I agree with prefer-free-formats, I usually download that way. -f best use to be the default, but actually no longer is - check the man page. -f best is simply a convenience, although doesn't add much in normal situations - I was experimenting to try to solve the audio-video sync problem I experience every now and then in VLC on Linux, and I have not yet determined if "-f best" consistently avoids the problem... Good luck,
