Yt-Dlp Reduced Quality?

Question

Hi HN!I maintain a playlist of youtube clips for offline use in case I run out of internet, and recently I noticed something strange.I was listening to this clip on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4TqqM5TGs , I then downloaded it with `yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4TqqM5TGs` and listened locally with intention to loop until end of my day. And I noticed when I play this clip on youtube the sound is much more vibrant and the clip sounds much better than the downloaded version.Is there any magic switch I'm missing? I already tried `-f bestvideo+bestaudio`

qbrass · Accepted Answer

It might be pulling an audio format that either youtube resampled, or that ffmpeg had to resample when merging the video because it's not compatible with the video format.There's a way to pick preferred audio and video formats it will choose over what's simply the best bitrate, but you'll have to look in the manual for more details.

8chanAnon · Answer

The highest quality audio is generally tag 251 (webm/opus). You can stream or download through an Invidious instance:https://vid.puffyan.us/latest_version?itag=251&id=Ry4TqqM5TG...