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Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by asdff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:41PM (#50383458)
Bitrate is irrelevant. It’s a download either way. Serving little slices is downloading.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by amiga386 on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:48AM (#50390734)
My point it that it's not the same slices firstly, and secondly the muxing of the slices and streams is an extra operation that the browser cannot do.