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Re: YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you are looking for -S res:720 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sorting-formats

Also want to save it in .mp4 format, trying it saves it formats in .webm

Well, that's

  --remux-video mp4
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options

Re: YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

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post #2

The reason to continue the project and not focus together on the more maintained fork [1] is to keep support for python 2.6 and 3.2? In 2022? For a thing that is made to talk to the internet? Python 2.6.7 was released in 2011. Python 2.x overdue EOL was in 2020. Python 3.2.6 was released in 2014. That's has to be one of the worst reasons for duplicating efforts ever. [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Maybe. But who cares? It's an open source project, if someone wants to maintain support for older software, good for them. If people don't like it they can fork and move on (and they have).

I don't understand the complaints and attacks in the github comments. It seems bizarre and egotistical to me to yell at a stranger who is providing you their work for free because you don't agree with their specific use case.

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