YouTube won't download any res higher 1080p even if 4k available

Checklist

• I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.03.08.1. (update instructions)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
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Description

Hello For 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 download batch file from txt and use bestvideo[height<2160] and merge to mkv later on For example 1440p only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqoH4uqm9XU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2trbFv8JhRw

But if I insert into cmd yt-dlp [link] it will download 4k

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 30 fps SDR of that video are also gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ 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

not sure if needed plus does not work with line

[pukkandan]

@fennectech

[fennectech]

Im an idiot. There are very similar videos that ARE 4k. https://youtu.be/VDRV6Oxea0c