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pytube erroneously labels 4320p (8K) streams 2160p (4K)

See original GitHub issue

YouTube seems to support 8K resolution videos (e.g. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1La4QzGeaaQ).

Nonetheless, pytube only outputs the following highest resolution streams:

[<Stream: itag="272" mime_type="video/webm" res="2160p" fps="30fps" vcodec="vp9">,
 <Stream: itag="313" mime_type="video/webm" res="2160p" fps="30fps" vcodec="vp9">,
 <Stream: itag="315" mime_type="video/webm" res="2160p" fps="60fps" vcodec="vp9">,
 <Stream: itag="337" mime_type="video/webm" res="2160p" fps="60fps" vcodec="vp9.2">,...

Note how the 2160p30 stream exists twice, though itag 272 is actually an 8K video. The resolution should rather be 4320p in this case.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:24 (1 by maintainers)

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RONNCCcommented, Dec 7, 2020

@tfdahlin

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Raprodentcommented, Jan 24, 2022

Sure, I’ll try to contribute if I find anything, same goes for you with that 2160p with audio. 😃

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