Facebook live video only allowing SD download

[digitalfreaknyc]

Was trying to download the Godfather panel from tonight...

https://www.facebook.com/Tribeca/videos/10155341025099758/

Every program I use only allows the SD video feed. Can anyone see what the problem might be?

[sophisticles]

youtube-dl downloaded the 720p version just fine.

[hech54]

Edited/Deleted because of a dirtball spammer.

[digitalfreaknyc]

I'm not sure what was deleted but I know the answer that I used was definitely in there. Now I can't remember how to do this anymore. Has it gotten easier since I originally posted this? I'm still only getting SD.

[codehound]

I am running Win7 Pro with SP1 x64. I also have ffmpeg.exe for Windows - available from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ in the same directory (folder) as my youtube-dl.exe
Choose Ffmpeg version to suit your O/S. Download the Zip and extract. Inside the 'bin' folder copy ffmpeg.exe (plus the other 2 for future use if so desired) into same folder containing youtube-dl.exe

Update your youtube-dl to latest version (note uppercase U). As of today it was v.2018-08-04.

youtube-dl -U

Play the Facebook video; RIGHT click > 'Show video URL' or use the URL from the address bar. Either way its...

https://www.facebook.com/Tribeca/videos/10155341025099758/

Use the -F (note uppercase F) command to see list of available formats.

youtube-dl -F https://www.facebook.com/Tribeca/videos/10155341025099758/

[Attachment 46445 - Click to enlarge]

For the 720p video + audio use this syntax (now note lowercase f)

youtube-dl -f 266576120412641v+m4a https://www.facebook.com/Tribeca/videos/10155341025099758/

[Attachment 46446 - Click to enlarge]

Job done. You should now have a 720p combined audio/video mp4 of ~1gb runtime 01:34:34

\Join us LIVE as Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Caan, ...-10155341025099758.mp4
Format                      : MPEG-4
Format profile              : Base Media
Codec ID                    : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                   : 1 012 MiB
Duration                    : 1 h 34 min
Overall bit rate            : 1 496 kb/s
Writing application         : Lavf58.17.100

Video
ID                          : 1
Format                      : AVC
Format/Info                 : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile              : Main@L3
Format settings, CABAC      : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames   : 3 frames
Format settings, GOP        : M=5, N=30
Codec ID                    : avc1
Codec ID/Info               : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                    : 1 h 34 min
Bit rate                    : 1 421 kb/s
Width                       : 1 280 pixels
Height                      : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio        : 16:9
Frame rate mode             : Variable
Frame rate                  : 30.000 FPS
Minimum frame rate          : 29.412 FPS
Maximum frame rate          : 30.303 FPS
Color space                 : YUV
Chroma subsampling          : 4:2:0
Bit depth                   : 8 bits
Scan type                   : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)          : 0.051
Stream size                 : 961 MiB (95%)
Language                    : English

Audio
ID                          : 2
Format                      : AAC
Format/Info                 : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile              : LC
Codec ID                    : 40
Duration                    : 1 h 34 min
Bit rate mode               : Constant
Bit rate                    : 66.2 kb/s
Channel(s)                  : 2 channels
Channel(s)_Original         : 1 channel
Channel positions           : Front: C
Sampling rate               : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                  : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode            : Lossy
Stream size                 : 44.2 MiB (4%)
Language                    : English
Default                     : Yes
Alternate group             : 1