On 23/09/2020 10:51, VeniVidiVideo wrote: > On Sep 22, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Jim web <w...@audiomisc.co.uk> wrote: >> I've never looked at uploading anything for YT. The question in my mind is >> as follows: >> >> Yes, it generally offers a range of download formats. But what format was >> *uploaded* in the first place? I wonder if getting the 'best' audio from YT >> simply may mean the least harm from a transcode YT has done. Or are >> uploaders expected to provide multiple versions? I suspect not. >> >> If my suspicion is correct, the 'best' would be to find the version as >> uploaded, I assume. > > That's incorrect. Especially since youtube-dl targets YouTube, there are > usually multiple versions available to be downloaded. YouTube routinely > maintains multiple resolutions of the video at least. There may be multiple > bitrates or formats for the audio as well, but I'm not sure about that. The > uploader doesn't have to worry about the multiple video resolutions. YouTube > takes care of the downcovert automatically. They do that so people can > stream videos with very different bandwidths, from 3G phone connections to > Gigabit fiber connections. > > youtube-dl even offers a -f "bestvideo+bestaudio" option that will separately > download the highest quality video and the highest quality audio and combine > them. I don't use youtube-dl all that often, but when I do I typically use > something like this: > > youtube-dl -f "bestvideo+bestaudio/best" --merge-output-format "mkv" > --prefer-ffmpeg --sub-lang 'en' --write-sub --convert-subtitles 'srt' > --embed-subs -o "Output File" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx > > Actually, I define most of those in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config, so the > actual command can look like just > > youtube-dl -o "Output File" http://... > > But those are the options that yield the best quality all around from YouTube > using youtube-dl. > > -vvv > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer >
So all is now OK for audio. I have settled on the most appropriate approach for my purposes and have been able to download and save the missing tracks I was looking for so many thanks for all the guidance and supporting info from everybody. By way of a footnote in my search I found some beautiful videos of Bach Cantatas from the J.S. Bach Foundation which I was able to watch on TV with audio through fibre to my amplifier/speaker system. So pleased was I that I thought I would go for a video download and this worked OK until YouTube stopped me. I must have exceeded some limit but it was good while it lasted! Budge _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
