Closed outusuke closed 4 years ago
No, not easily because videos each have different available formats and resolution and we want something we can rely on.
So we request best
resolution and convert-down from there.
If we were to request a particular format, it would fail on many videos because it might not be present.
We could request worst
but it's not consistent either and many are available as 3gp
which is terrible (worst than our low-quality which is already very aggressive).
I doubt there's a single setting that works best than current. We could allow people to customize the youtube-dl format request but I'm not sure how much demand there is for that.
Probably we should close this ticket as not fixeable (or already implemented properly).
Is it possible to download in low resolution instead of --low-quality? Because it takes a long time to convert and consume many resources on a common PC