[Gettr] Wrong default format

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Description

I guess this falls more in the “misfunctioning” category as opposed to “broken.” At the risk of confusion (this usually doesn’t end well), I see two separate issues here. First, without a format type, yt-dlp retrieves a lower quality video (1,627,575 bytes with a video bit rate of 178 kb/s and an audio bitrate of 160 kb/s) than the best available. Second, when I specify the best quality video (hls-1936), I don’t get anything near the filesize or bitrate indicated (3,734,051 bytes with a video bitrate of 793 kb/s).

Verbose log

$ yt-dlp-2022.01.21 -F 'https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87'
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading webpage
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading JSON metadata
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for ppbjz4da87:
ID                      EXT RESOLUTION │ FILESIZE   TBR PROTO  │ VCODEC        VBR ACODEC     MORE INFO
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
hls-group_audio-audio_0 mp4 audio only │                m3u8_n │ audio only        unknown    [ZH] audio_0
hls-616                 mp4 480x222    │ ~2.83MiB  616k m3u8_n │ avc1.4d401e  616k video only
hls-1056                mp4 640x296    │ ~4.85MiB 1056k m3u8_n │ avc1.4d401f 1056k video only
hls-1936                mp4 960x444    │ ~8.89MiB 1936k m3u8_n │ avc1.4d401f 1936k video only
ovid                    mp4 960x444    │                https  │ unknown           unknown

$ yt-dlp -v 'https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87'
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.01.21 [f20d607b0] (zip)
[debug] Python version 3.9.9 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.15.11-with-glibc2.33
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.1 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Crypto
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [Gettr] Extracting URL: https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading webpage
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading JSON metadata
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, lang, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best
[info] ppbjz4da87: Downloading 1 format(s): ovid
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://media.gettr.com/group21/origin/2022/01/19/14/0f15706b-40b8-cb7a-6bf4-34e0a77b3198/out.mp4"
[download] Destination: Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].mp4
[download] 100% of 1.55MiB in 00:08

$ yt-dlp -v -f hls-1936 'https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87'
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', '-f', 'hls-1936', 'https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.01.21 [f20d607b0] (zip)
[debug] Python version 3.9.9 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.15.11-with-glibc2.33
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.1 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Crypto
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [Gettr] Extracting URL: https://gettr.com/post/ppbjz4da87
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading webpage
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading JSON metadata
[Gettr] ppbjz4da87: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, lang, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[info] ppbjz4da87: Downloading 1 format(s): hls-1936
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://media.gettr.com/group21/origin/2022/01/19/14/0f15706b-40b8-cb7a-6bf4-34e0a77b3198/720p_v.m3u8"
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 5
[download] Destination: Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].mp4
[download] 100% of 3.76MiB in 00:45
[debug] ffprobe command line: ffprobe -hide_banner -show_format -show_streams -print_format json 'file:Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].mp4'
[FixupM3u8] Fixing MPEG-TS in MP4 container of "Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].mp4' -map 0 -dn -ignore_unknown -c copy -f mp4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -movflags +faststart 'file:Daniel Lemire - Must-watch video. This is what is happening in Quebec. Help! [ppbjz4da87].temp.mp4'

[pukkandan]

Thanks for checking

Should I remove the preference of ovid format for now?

Yes

[pukkandan]

Could you also check if there is a way to extract the bitrate of this format? Without that, the inverse of this situation may occur in the future (ie, ovid is actually better, but hls is selected)