With bestvideo you are specifically asking to download anything lower than 2160px, lower than 4k, so yt-dlp downloads smaller videos (1440p for example). Many of new recent 4k videos are also 1080p only even thought they are already processed and available in 1440p/4k in browser.are they moving to AV1 or something? Verbose log So I investigate and by listing formats with -F I see that only 1 4k format is available for some reason when there is usually 2-3? Whats going on with YT where did all formats go suddenly? It happens with almost every 4k video I see now and saw before I download batch file from txt and use bestvideo and merge to mkv later onīut if I insert into cmd yt-dlp it will download 4k

I've read the guidelines for opening an issueįor some reason yt-dlp won't download higher res than 1080p (in some rare occasions It may grab 1440p) even thought ALL videos are 100% available in 4k or higher.I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones.

I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped.

I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser.

I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.1.

I'm reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site.

Yt to mp4 1080p