m4a processed audio through webm gives weird file sizes - Githubissues

MrS0m30n3 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

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m4a processed audio through webm gives weird file sizes #424

Open philipzae opened 4 years ago

philipzae commented 4 years ago

[X] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
[X] I've verified and i assure that I'm running youtube-dl-gui 0.4
[X] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
[X] Searched bugtracker
[X] I've read the FAQs file

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[X] Bug report
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Bug report

What operating system do you use ?

Linux

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

Open GUI
Paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq77Atk5v-c
Set it to download m4a
Download the file three times and each time change the audio quality options setting in the options dialog to high, medium or low

What is the expected behaviour ?

That higher quality audio files would have larger sizes

What happens instead ?

low quality file is 11.8mb, medium quality file is 11.5mb and high quality file is 5.4mb