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How do I download 1080p from youtube-dl?
You can download 1080p using youtube-dl , but you need to do a little extra work. Usually it will only download 720p as its max even if you can see 1080p on youtube.com. and it will download the 1080p video and auto-merge it with the highest-quality audio. It should also auto-deleted the separate downloaded parts.
How do I change the default download location for youtube-dl?
This behavior can be modified in either of two ways:
- Use the -o option with youtube-dl to manually give a location for the downloaded files: youtube-dl -o “~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s” ‘youtube file url’
- Create a configuration file for youtube-dl as follows: touch ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf.
What do I need to know about youtube-dl?
Here is an explanation of streams/formats for anyone new to youtube-dl. Some video sites, such as youtube, offer not only different resolutions of video to download, but have options in youtube-dl called formats to download video and audio separately.
How to download YouTube playlist with youtube-dl?
With the option –download-archive FILE youtube-dl both reads and adds to a list of files not to download again. Every time a file is successfully downloaded, that video id is added to FILE. You can use it as follows: It will redownload any videos from before that you didn’t keep for one last time as it creates the list.
Can you download a 1080p video from YouTube?
You can download 1080p using youtube-dl, but you need to do a little extra work. Usually it will only download 720p as its max even if you can see 1080p on youtube.com. Run with -F to see available formats:
What happens when you download a YouTube playlist?
With the option –download-archive FILE youtube-dl both reads and adds to a list of files not to download again. Every time a file is successfully downloaded, that video id is added to FILE. It will redownload any videos from before that you didn’t keep for one last time as it creates the list. You can now delete them.
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