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MrS0m30n3 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
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Need help; quality #190

Closed Sonicpromo closed 7 years ago

Sonicpromo commented 7 years ago

Hello I can use a little help over here 1) I want to know if its possible to convert video with the settings I like after its downloaded 2) I don't understand how to download 720p or 480p (not the best quality) with audio, limiting it in extra panel by command (-f "best[height=720]") wont work and the log will say that the format is not available

nodiscc commented 7 years ago
  1. Yes. https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html https://www.google.com/search?q=ffmpeg+re-encode https://stackexchange.com/search?q=ffmpeg http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/ffmpeg https://qwinff.github.io/
  2. You can not limit the quality this way as far as I know. Please read https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/168. You have to specify which formats you accept (numeric value like 38, 43...). See the youtube-dl manual and direct your question there since this not related to youtube-dl-gui.
Sonicpromo commented 7 years ago

-f [height<480] is working for me but kinda strange it won't download better files instead some 640x360 while 720 and 800x480 are available

nodiscc commented 7 years ago

Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use -f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'.

This allows you to download formats stricly inferior to 480px height.

If you want to only download some DASH formats (for example if you are not interested in getting videos with a resolution higher than 1080p), you can add -f bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best to your configuration file

You might need to try other operators like [height<=?480]