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  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    23·
    8 days ago

    I mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these:

    $ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

    That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Note that subtitles doesn’t include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction

    • sh00g@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Also if you just want the audio to listen to (I like to do this with TTRPGs) you can do:

      yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio

      Also works great in a pinch for getting sounds and music for FoundryVTT.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I’m pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

        goes looking at man page

           By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
   equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
   the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
   to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

        So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn’t offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it’ll sacrifice audio quality.

        EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don’t see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.