• Sunrosa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i’m too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.

    Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary (“-f 22”) if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.

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      1 year ago

      I use -f 22 to set a lower quality actually, because most videos on youtube are needlessly larger than my 5K monitor.

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        1 year ago

        Higher resolution videos actually have better bitrates on youtube. Like if you select 4k even if your monitor is just 1080p, the video will look much better.