On 13/04/2019 14:44, Mick wrote:
It still insists on downloading the largest file.
It is doing this because you're asking it to download a video of [height<=?
1280], and also download potentially separately an audio file - then mux them
into one container file. A *height* of <=1280 means a resolution of more than
1080p. So, no wonder it wants to download a much larger video file. In
addition, the question mark is used to download videos up to 1280 or videos
where the height is not known. Therefore it could potentially download a
bigger file if its height is somehow not declared in its web metadata.
He forgot to change "height" to "width". Dale needs to improve his
copy&paste skills :-)
Specifying a width of 1280 is better than specifying a height of 720
when using youtube-dl, because a height of 720 might fail for videos
with an aspect ratio different than 16:9. But a width of 1280 is always
going to be what we call "720p" (even if the height is not actually 720
pixels.)
