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=webm][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<=?1920]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?1100][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?800][width<=?1024]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?800][width<=?1024]+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=webm][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width>?400][width<=?580]+bestaudio/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][width>?200][width<=?400]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=webm][width>?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 :)
