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--- youtube-dl [2022/08/03 07:36] – [GUI] yt-dlg url update, tartube rjt
+++ youtube-dl [2024/12/11 19:18] (current) – [Video] auto merging streams rjt
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 ^ ''-F'' | List available formats for the video. |
-^ ''-f\_[code]'' | Format, I usually go with ''best''. |
+^ ''-f\_[code]'' | Format, use code from ''-F'' list. Default is highest quality. |
 ^ ''-i'' | Ignore errors. Sometimes comes in handy when trivial errors are holding things up. |
 ^ ''-o'' | Lets you set a template to format the filenames of the output. |
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 ==== Video ====
 YTDL will automatically grab the best-quality version, so often ''youtube-dl [url]'' is sufficient.
+If you want to choose which format with ''-f'' it likely will be ''video only'', so you have to pick an audio  stream too, you can grab them both and have them merged by using a [;us symbol, eg: ''ytdlp -f 123+456 [youtube id]''
 ==== Getting Audio from Videos ====