yt-dlg video resolution, and audio frequency and bitrate

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How do you specify a video resolution (720p), and audio frequency (44,100 hz) and bitrate (128 kbps) to use when downloading an mp4 file? Is there a tutorial available for that anwhere?

[oleksis]

You can use the --audio-quality option to specify the audio quality in yt-dlp. For example, to specify an audio bitrate of 128 kbps, you can use --audio-quality 128K³. To set the audio frequency, you can use the --postprocessor-args option with the -ar argument for ffmpeg. For example, to set the audio frequency to 44,100 Hz, you can use --postprocessor-args "-ar 44100"⁴.

As for the video resolution, you can use the -F option to list the available formats and then use the -f option followed by the format code to download the desired resolution². For example, to download a video in 720p resolution, you can first list the available formats using yt-dlp -F [video-url], find the format code for 720p resolution in the output, and then use yt-dlp -f [format-code] [video-url] to download the video in 720p resolution.

To download a video using yt-dlp with the specified video resolution, audio frequency, and audio bitrate, you can use the following command:

yt-dlp --audio-quality 128K --postprocessor-args "-ar 44100" -f [format-code] [video-url]

Make sure to replace [format-code] with the format code for the desired video resolution and [video-url] with the URL of the video you want to download. You can find the format code for the desired video resolution by first listing the available formats using yt-dlp -F [video-url].

You can check Video selection for yt-dlp

Using yt-dlg yourou can also use the options in the Extra tab to specify a custom format string, similar to how you would do it with youtube-dl or yt-dlp.

(1) Can't use YouTube-dl to download specified bitrate [closed]
(2) windows - youtube-dl set sample rate on mp3? - Super User.
(3) How to select video quality from youtube-dl? - Ask Ubuntu.
(4) GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features
(5) Choose live encoder settings, bitrates, and resolutions.

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