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dvingerh / PyInstaStories

Python script to download Instagram stories from Instagram users.
MIT License
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What’s your experience regarding video quality: resolution & bitrate ? #26

Closed github-userx closed 4 years ago

github-userx commented 4 years ago

Instaloader downloaded: 640x1136 – video-bitrate: 1170kb/s

PyInstaStories with —hq-videos: 720x1280 – video-bitrate: 1088kb/s

So we get higher resolution but bitrate is tiny bit lower (110kb/s). Which one would you prefer?

dvingerh commented 4 years ago

I'll take bitrate over resolution because with a lower bitrate there is less amount of video detail available and in this case it has to be spread out over a larger "area" (as far as my understanding of video compression goes)

So from a technical standpoint the --hq-videos flag is somewhat misleading

github-userx commented 4 years ago

@notcammy thanks. Interesting, so in this case (stories) the app-api actually isn’t superior to the web-api. It is definitely the case when it comes to regular instagram posts videos. (Once again many thanks for your script to get true HD videos of posts!).