Youtube-dl downloading webpage insted of mp4

youtube-dl -f . It will begin generating on the working directory bltadwin.ru4.part which is the partially downloaded file, let it go and just press to stop the capture. The file will still be bltadwin.ru, Reviews: 2. and WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. some codecs provided by youtube are not compatiable with mp4. when you just download bestvideo+bestaudio you sometimes gets those. you can specify -f "bestvideo [ext=mp4]+bestaudio [ext=m4a]/best" and you will always get mp4.  · YouTube seldom gives correct numbers in those fields. opus compression is more effective than m4a, so transcoding opus to m4a with higher bitrate than original opus makes sence. Got it. This should work: youtube-dl -v lL7vgDRZxfo -f "bestvideo [ext=mp4]+bestaudio [acodec=opus]" --recode-video mp4 --keep-video --postprocessor-args "-vcodec copy.

[youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Extracting video information [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading MPD manifest [download] Destination: Bad Style - Time back-jwD4AEVBL6Q.m4a [download] % of MiB in [ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Bad Style - Time. your command does not work on GNU/Linux: we use youtube-dl instead of bltadwin.ru And ffmpeg told me Invalid duration specification for ss: , it should be -ss with colons instead of periods except for the last one. -. [youtube] Setting language [youtube] P9pzm5b6FFY: Downloading webpage [youtube] P9pzm5b6FFY: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] P9pzm5b6FFY: Extracting video information [info] Available formats for P9pzm5b6FFY: format code extension resolution note m4a audio only DASH audio, audio@k (worst) mp4 p DASH video, video only.

I know I can use youtube-dl -F to see all available formats, choose one and then run another command, but I want to download videos automatically through a script. The furthest I've got is: youtube-dl -f mp4 But this chooses the best mp4 option which has audio also, and so usually isn't the best video quality (p instead of p). [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Extracting video information [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading MPD manifest [download] Destination: Bad Style - Time back-jwD4AEVBL6Q.m4a [download] % of MiB in [ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Bad Style - Time. youtube-dl -f . It will begin generating on the working directory bltadwin.ru4.part which is the partially downloaded file, let it go and just press to stop the capture. The file will still be bltadwin.ru, rename it bltadwin.ru4 and there it is.