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CyberShadow on July 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: YouTube Filesystem – YTFS

I think these monolithic files are provided only for up to 720p quality, mainly for compatibility with older Flash players. To download the maximum quality with youtube-dl, you have to use "-f bestvideo+bestaudio" - then, youtube-dl will download both streams, and merge them for you with an ffmpeg invocation.

agumonkey on July 6, 2015 [–]

Ha, I never paid much attention to higher bitrates, and most of the time I only see resolution up to 720p (maybe because of my tastes).

I'm sure there are ways to merge streams on the fly though.

daxelrod on July 7, 2015 | [–]

There has to be some way, the player on the YouTube website does it. :)

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