YouTube's VP9 to h264

[DonSeenu]

I downloaded a video from YouTube with VP9/Opus codecs.
But its not well play in VLC and Windows Media Player. I tried Handbrake to encode Vp9 to H.264, but it waste more time and lose quality.
Is any way to i convert Vp9/MKV to H.264/MP4 without re-encoding ?

[poisondeathray]

I downloaded a video from YouTube with VP9/Opus codecs.
But its not well play in VLC and Windows Media Player. I tried Handbrake to encode Vp9 to H.264, but it waste more time and lose quality.
Is any way to i convert Vp9/MKV to H.264/MP4 without re-encoding ?

No.

You should just download the h264/aac/mp4 version directly from youtube

[Vidd]

Why convert it when you can just download the H.264 mp4 from YouTube? Programs like jdownloader and youtube-dl let you select the format to download. There are also websites like keepvid that download the video in mp4.

[DonSeenu]

I purchased a movie on YouTube, which is not downloadable in YouTube -dl /savefrom ��,
When i play YouTube from my account, just IDM capture option appears. IDM can download it but not in h.264 /aac, it is download in VP9 which not play well in some other device like TV , also VLC.
Pls. Anyone have a right way to change only codecs ? I don't want to compress it.

[poisondeathray]

not possible without re-encoding

Figure out another way to download the h264/aac version. For example, you can enter authentication credentials (login/pw)with youtube-dl , did you try that ?

[hydra3333]

Check if it is also HDR (you can tell if it is vp9.2).
If it is then you have other problems too like converting HDR->SDR, there's threads around the place lamenting hdr->sdr at the moment.

[DonSeenu]

not possible without re-encoding

Figure out another way to download the h264/aac version. For example, you can enter authentication credentials (login/pw)with youtube-dl , did you try that ?

i want to try your idea, please tell me how to do it ?

[poisondeathray]

not possible without re-encoding

Figure out another way to download the h264/aac version. For example, you can enter authentication credentials (login/pw)with youtube-dl , did you try that ?

i want to try your idea, please tell me how to do it ?

look at the help for switches , under authentication options

youtube-dl -h

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  Authentication Options:
    -u, --username USERNAME          Login with this account ID
    -p, --password PASSWORD          Account password. If this option is left
                                     out, youtube-dl will ask interactively.
    -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR        Two-factor authentication code
    -n, --netrc                      Use .netrc authentication data
    --video-password PASSWORD        Video password (vimeo, smotri, youku)
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