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Not sure if bug: format string not working on Rumble and others

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Hello, 😃 I’ve been using this format string to download videos in 720p or less: -f 'bestvideo[height<="720"][ext=mp4][vcodec!*=av01]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4' It works for YouTube and some others, but now fails for Rumble and some others. The latter will always download in 1080 instead. This: -f 'mp4-720p' works for Rumble. Is there any way to make up a universal string that gets the desired behavior from all of them?

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Created 2 years ago
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pukkandancommented, Feb 11, 2022

You are right. * doesn’t help here. Do this instead

❯ yt-dlp https://rumble.com/vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p.html -f "bv[height<=720][ext=mp4][vcodec!*=?av01]+ba[ext=m4a]/mp4[height<=720][vcodec!*=?av01]"
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Downloading webpage
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Extracting information
[RumbleEmbed] vp0ax5: Downloading JSON metadata
[info] vp0ax5: Downloading 1 format(s): mp4-720p
ERROR: Interrupted by user
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

or,

❯ yt-dlp https://rumble.com/vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p.html -S res:720,ext:mp4:m4a,vcodec:h264
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Downloading webpage
[generic] vrmh11-breaking-bad-i-am-the-danger-scene-s4-e6-1080p: Extracting information
[RumbleEmbed] vp0ax5: Downloading JSON metadata
[info] vp0ax5: Downloading 1 format(s): mp4-720p
ERROR: Interrupted by user
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

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xxxLCxxxcommented, Feb 12, 2022

Thank you very much! 😃 The -S flavor is straightforward. I like it.