Is there any way to get the 1080p stream?

[elektro]

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/121417-004-A/st-vincent/

I can only get the 720p stream and there is no video quality selection. Any ideas?

[Obo]

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYudJVGi2i8

[elektro]

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYudJVGi2i8

I know. The bitrate is too low on Youtube livestreams.

[Obo]

Well, then ...

(Bitrate is not everything, more important imo is the combination of codec and bitrate. The video from ARTE is encoded with H264, whereas the video on Youtube is VP9 encoded. Youtube has the following 1080p formats for this video:

ID  EXT   RESOLUTION FPS CH │   FILESIZE   TBR PROTO │ VCODEC          VBR ACODEC      ABR ASR MORE INFO
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
251 webm  audio only      2 │   83.49MiB  127k https │ audio only          opus       127k 48k [en] medium, webm_dash
140 m4a   audio only      2 │   85.35MiB  129k https │ audio only          mp4a.40.2  129k 44k [en] medium, m4a_dash
270 mp4   1920x1080   30    │ ~  3.39GiB 5268k m3u8  │ avc1.640028   5268k video only
137 mp4   1920x1080   30    │    1.55GiB 2415k https │ avc1.640028   2415k video only          1080p, mp4_dash
614 mp4   1920x1080   30    │ ~  1.94GiB 3015k m3u8  │ vp09.00.40.08 3015k video only
248 webm  1920x1080   30    │  742.67MiB 1127k https │ vp09.00.40.08 1127k video only          1080p, webm_dash

The "mp4" formats are probably en par with what you can download from ARTE. VP9 is much more efficient than H264.

If you insist on H264, download format "270". Try

yt-dlp -S 'res:1080,tbr,codec:avc:m4a' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYudJVGi2i8'

which downloads formats "270+140")

[elektro]

Well, then ...

(Bitrate is not everything, more important imo is the combination of codec and bitrate. The video from ARTE is encoded with H264, whereas the video on Youtube is VP9 encoded. Youtube has the following 1080p formats for this video:

ID  EXT   RESOLUTION FPS CH │   FILESIZE   TBR PROTO │ VCODEC          VBR ACODEC      ABR ASR MORE INFO
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
251 webm  audio only      2 │   83.49MiB  127k https │ audio only          opus       127k 48k [en] medium, webm_dash
140 m4a   audio only      2 │   85.35MiB  129k https │ audio only          mp4a.40.2  129k 44k [en] medium, m4a_dash
270 mp4   1920x1080   30    │ ~  3.39GiB 5268k m3u8  │ avc1.640028   5268k video only
137 mp4   1920x1080   30    │    1.55GiB 2415k https │ avc1.640028   2415k video only          1080p, mp4_dash
614 mp4   1920x1080   30    │ ~  1.94GiB 3015k m3u8  │ vp09.00.40.08 3015k video only
248 webm  1920x1080   30    │  742.67MiB 1127k https │ vp09.00.40.08 1127k video only          1080p, webm_dash

The "mp4" formats are probably en par with what you can download from ARTE. VP9 is much more efficient than H264.

If you insist on H264, download format "270". Try

yt-dlp -S 'res:1080,tbr,codec:avc:m4a' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYudJVGi2i8'

which downloads formats "270+140")

Thanks. I'll get the H264 one. I know very well that bitrate matters in the context of the codec used (e.g. a MPEG2 needs much more bitrate than H264 for the same quality). But many times Youtube don't use enough bitrate for VP9 for 1080p streams and the H264 stream actually looks better. It depends from video to video.