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- # set sane defaults to ensure video and audio are saved as intended
- #
- # Unfortunately yt-dlp lacks sane behaviors with regards to controlling
- # both video and audio formats from `~/.config/yt-dlp/config`.
- #
- # If I add `--recode-video=webm` then it will also recode audio only downloads
- # to webm even if I specified `--audio-format=opus`.
- #
- # I then tried using `-f` to control the downloaded file, but this is exposed
- # other strange and undesirable behaviors.
- #
- # If I use `ba[ext=opus]` it will often fail because `opus` is not a commonly
- # available extension.
- #
- # If I use `ba[ext=webm]`even if I want both audio and video it will never
- # download the full video file.
- #
- # If I use `bv[ext=webm]+ba[ext=webm]` with `-x` it will download the entire
- # video file, which is often an order of magnitude larger wasting both time and
- # disk space, before converting to the desired audio-only format.
- #
- # In conclusion there does not seem to be intelligent design around the `-x`
- # flag. It ignores this flag when picking the file to download, and it ignores
- # this flag when asked to recode video even though I only want audio.
- #
- # The end result is that I have to pick between only controlling audio or video
- # and if I control video I am forced to download entire video files when smaller
- # audio-only downloads would suffice.
- # sane stream download setting
- --wait-for-video=1
- # optimal quality
- --audio-quality=0
- # save audio as opus and video as webm
- --prefer-free-formats
- -S ext:webm:webm
- --audio-format=opus
- --recode-video="opus>opus/webm"
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