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Confused on how to get the best compatable format

Open snab43 opened this issue 8 months ago • 1 comments

Love this software, but I'm a bit confused on how it works. What I'm trying to achieve is the highest quality video format that is also compatible with Premiere Pro. So ideally H.264 codec. I wouldn't mind using ffmpeg to convert but I can't tell how to do.

I set my preferred video container to mp4 and my preferred video codec to h264 in the settings. But if I just select "Let yt-dlp choose the best format" it will download a webm with a weird codec (I think vp9) that Premiere can't read.

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If I go to "Select formats" I usually only get 1 option above "Audio only" and "Video only" and it's 360p. Not HD.

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I wouldn't be surprised if YouTube just uses vp9 now for everything HD and the only way to get a compatible HD format is to use ffmpeg, but I'm not understanding how to do that. I thought putting prefer h264 in the settings would mean that it would try to get me the highest quality video in h264 even if it needed to convert with ffmpeg to do so.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks again for this software! It's probably the best yt-dlp wrapper I've used.

snab43 avatar Jun 02 '24 15:06 snab43