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sylviiu / ezytdl

Advanced electron-based frontend for yt-dlp
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Low video quality #220

Open Kr2n opened 2 months ago

Kr2n commented 2 months ago

When trying to download a video, a huge number of video preset options are displayed, which make absolutely no sense. The "Quick Download" button downloads videos in 360p format, and this is the only one where there will be sound. The other presets presented either have only video or only audio. It would be nice to see simplification.

sylviiu commented 2 months ago

if you download FFmpeg via the settings menu in the app, the "quick download" button becomes a "full quality" button that will take the highest video and audio source, and merges them together with ffmpeg image

youtube doesn't offer high quality video files with audio, they are streamed separately - this is why ffmpeg is needed; it will take the two separate streams and combine them into a single file