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Yeah I was onboard until the re-encoding part: yt-dlp maintains the exact bits, why on earth would someone want to waste encoding time just to trash the quality?

On top of that... seriously, of all the formats one could choose, MOV?! Might as well choose DivX or RealVideo.



I downscale all of the videos I download to 480p to save space. I also convert my FLACs to MP3. Suck it!


> Suck it!

How old are you?


it's because on a mac I want to be able to open them in quicktime and final cut pro. The mp4 format youtube uses isn't something quicktime can open.

But I gave you a cli param of --format

Default is mov but you can pass in mkv




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