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StefanLobbenmeier / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Best audio quality for youtube, Consensus is that it's m4a, when I tell your "Open Video Downloader"... #30

Open Username23453 opened 1 year ago

Username23453 commented 1 year ago

...to convert youtube videos to m4a, is it extracting the original m4a from the video/from youtube? or is it being inefficient & for example converting some other lower quality audio or OPUS to m4a? m4a is always better than OPUS when it comes to youtube.

StefanLobbenmeier commented 1 year ago

Good question, i would have to research myself. You can turn on the setting keep-unmerged-files to see which files are actually downloaded

Username23453 commented 1 year ago

When i unmerge it for music.youtube.com & youtube.com, it downloads four file types oddly, f248.webm, f248.webm, mkv & OPUS. And the audio file inside the mkv is OPUS also. How do i get ur program to obtain the original m4a file? I dont want it to convert OPUS to m4a. I want the original best quality m4a. My program "aTube Catcher" can obtain/rip the m4a, but i like your user interface/design much better.

Then again, its debated whether m4a or OPUS are different in quality. It probably depends on the bitrate? Thing is, youtubedl terminal version allows you to download either m4a or OPUS, but your program doesnt. See two links below, very helpful/educational. So here is what i think needs to be done, we need to get your program to download the m4a & the OPUS & then we need to compare the bitrate. -Thanks!

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/p6myq4/deleted_by_user/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewPipe/comments/nkhvpg/opus_vs_m4a/

StefanLobbenmeier commented 1 year ago

youtubedl terminal version allows you to download either m4a or OPUS

Yeah this App something messed up with the format selection, see also #11.

so I think we can close this is the same swoop, when the format selection allows you to actually select the formats you want we can avoid issues like this.

Username23453 commented 1 year ago

@StefanLobbenmeier , i dont understand at all what you are trying to say, can you please clarify/elaborate? -Thanks

StefanLobbenmeier commented 1 year ago

Sorry i missed your message. In https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui/issues/11#issuecomment-1374638970 I looked into the format selection.

Basically there is something already wrong with parsing the output of yt-dlp format selection. When this is fixed hopefully you can also select exactly the format you would like