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Create a ZIM file from a Youtube channel/username/playlist
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Download videos in low resolution instead of ffmpeg transcode #114

Closed outusuke closed 4 years ago

outusuke commented 4 years ago

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

rgaudin commented 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.

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

Probably we should close this ticket as not fixeable (or already implemented properly).