youtube 4k videos highest i can choose is 1080p

[jamespoo]

on my pc ive always been able to play videos at 4k but now when i go to change it to 4k highest i can chooses is 1080p why?

does not happen on all 4k videos but i know this is one i cant play in 4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

[kenyard]

Maybe it's not in 4k? That's a very old video...

[Alwyn]

Only 1080P available here for that video.

[nimrahwt]

It's also in the description

REMASTERED IN HD! UP TO 4K!!
Check out the official music video for "Better Sweet Symphony" by The Verve

The website says 1080p only

but yt-dlp says 4k

so just download it with yt-dlp

[info] Available formats for 1lyu1KKwC74:
ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO
────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────
...
399 mp4 1920x1080 25 │ 60.61MiB 1846k https │ av01.0.08M.08 1846k video only 1080p, mp4_dash
137-dash mp4 1920x1080 25 │ 100.95MiB 4333k dash │ avc1.640028 4333k video only DASH video, mp4_dash
137 mp4 1920x1080 25 │ 100.95MiB 3074k https │ avc1.640028 3074k video only 1080p, mp4_dash
248 webm 1920x1080 25 │ ~ 88.82MiB 2646k dash │ vp9 2646k video only DASH video, webm_dash
400 mp4 2560x1440 25 │ 206.88MiB 6301k https │ av01.0.12M.08 6301k video only 1440p, mp4_dash
271-dash webm 2560x1440 25 │ 282.62MiB 8911k dash │ vp9 8911k video only DASH video, webm_dash
271 webm 2560x1440 25 │ 282.62MiB 8608k https │ vp9 8608k video only 1440p, webm_dash
401 mp4 3840x2160 25 │ 516.40MiB 15729k https │ av01.0.12M.08 15729k video only 2160p, mp4_dash
313-dash webm 3840x2160 25 │ 575.53MiB 17974k dash │ vp9 17974k video only DASH video, webm_dash
313 webm 3840x2160 25 │ 575.53MiB 17530k https │ vp9 17530k video only 2160p, webm_dash

And iirc I also downloaded a few more Music Videos in 1440p/4k which only showed 1080p on the website but had hidden the higher resolution which was only visible in youtube-dl

Maybe it's not in 4k? That's a very old video...

sometimes artists replace their old SD videos with new remastered Videos, another example is Eminem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIzD0ZfTFg
https://youtu.be/gOMhN-hfMtY

[video.baba]

I download it in 4K no problem.

[Alwyn]

I keep forgetting 4k video downloader:


[Attachment 65023 - Click to enlarge]
MP4 available at same resolutions.

I download it in 4K no problem.

That isn't very helpful. How did you do it?

[nimrahwt]

just use yt-dlp

yt-dlp -f 313+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74 --merge mp4

[[ss]vegeta]

just use yt-dlp

yt-dlp -f 313+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74 --merge mp4

Can you please upload this somewhere like wetransfer.com and post link?
Thanks

I keep getting 403 forbidden with ytdlp, maybe cuz I'm using VPN because in my country this video is unavailable.

Eh nevermind, Windscribe was the problem, with Nord VPN it downloads fine.

[nimrahwt]

sure, no problem
https://www.filemail.com/d/umardjehvywmfik

[[ss]vegeta]

sure, no problem
https://www.filemail.com/d/umardjehvywmfik

Thanks

[[ss]vegeta]

What a brilliant remaster... when was this done?

****ing geo restrictions preventing me from seeing the most awesome video along with my favorite song of all time...
Sorry for off topic.

[nimrahwt]

yeah, that sucks
most MVs were also blocked in my country for a long time, thanks to the GEMA

seems to be remastered in 2020
https://twitter.com/genuineverve/status/1296371455714787328

"'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life…
Head to YouTube to see the incredible remastered 4K version of the official 'Bittersweet Symphony' music video. "
August 20, 2020


https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1296371370683768832/pu/vid/720x720/y9Ww55nWOHBLM7T-.mp4?tag=10

[gareth41]

That video is indeed 4K, you just need to look in the manifest

[Attachment 65063 - Click to enlarge]

and don't throw you money at expensive video downloaders, you can easily write your own script to do the job.

I use the following php code for extracting the manifest. Parse it to an array, then just loop over it to get the highest available bandwidth. Once you have the video/audio url's, download them in chunks simultaneously with curl, using about 20 or more threads to get around youtubes throttling

$manifest_s = strrpos($manifest, "ytInitialPlayerResponse = {") + 26;
$manifest_e = strrpos($manifest, "}}}};var", 0);

$json_manifest = substr($manifest, $manifest_s, ($manifest_e+4) - $manifest_s);
$manifest_arr = json_decode($json_manifest, true);