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Re:Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable by romwell on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:18AM (#34271875)
Why wouldn't one download something like that in 720P video/196kbps audio?

I mean, there's a time and a place for 4K, but watching the zits on the face of a guy who tells you how to play C Am F G on a guitar isn't it.

Not to mention, most of those cheap 4K cameras won't have optics to utilize those pixels; no quality will be lost in 720p.

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Re:Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable by kristianp on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:22AM (#34271895)
That depends, if the source is bright enough, those little pixels will have enough signal to work effectively.
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Re:Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:01PM (#34280161)
My downloader defaults to the highest quality, so unless I remember to specify a setting, I get gigabytes of video for something that could easily be 480 quality. In the event I forget, I reencode with ffmpeg.
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Re:Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable by romwell on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:05PM (#34293410)
It's a reasonable default, but if one has gone to the trouble of setting up a NAS and scripts, might as well tick that box.
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