YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month

Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by jdminhbg on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:52PM (#22678888)

You can use youtube-dl to pull down audio-only tracks. I do this frequently for talks without much in the way of visual presentation that I then listen to as podcasts.

    youtube-dl -F https://youtube.com/video-url

That will give you a list of formats, pick an audio-only one, and use the -f flag to download that format.

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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by James_STT on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:42PM (#22679347)

the 'bestaudio' format is particularly useful, you can't be certain of the container it serves you but it avoids having to check '-F'

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