A download issue [discovery+]

[Axel Slingerland]

Unfortunately, it goes right back to the same problem. The format command has to include "dash-video=xxxx000", or it won't work with them at all. All I ever get with any of the things I've tried is a huge list of failed frag notices, unless that is there, with the specific four numbers that identify the file as the specific one I want to download.

It would be so much easier if I had an 8k TV. Anyone got a few thousand dollars they can spare? [Rattles tin cup with a Quarter in it.]

[Quint]

or you could use the filtering formats way (instead of sorting) to pick the best video with resolution 720p or lower and the best audio

-f "bv[height<=720],ba"

That simple? Nice to know!

[Axel Slingerland]

Yes, indeed it is. It will be quite helpful for all the other websites I go to. It bet it would work with Dash too, if you know out how to do it... Because so far, yt-dlp has been able to do everything that other programs I've used couldn't do.

[killer30]

So you really have to wait until they give yt-dlp the ability to pick the best of a specified resolution.

thats possible already with the following argument

-S "height:720"

example:

yt-dlp -S "height:720" --cookies-from-browser chrome -N 6 --output %%(title)s.%%(ext)s https://www.discoveryplus.com/video/show_title

that will sort the output formats the same as before but any id with a higher resolution than 720p will be put at the bottom of the priority list. (which is at the top when using --list-formats as its sorting worst at the top to best at the bottom of the screen)
so it "should" select the highest bitrate 720p video id.

or you could use the filtering formats way (instead of sorting) to pick the best video with resolution 720p or lower and the best audio

-f "bv[height<=720],ba"

the documentation for yt-dlp also has examples for choosing formats based on filesize but i found that to be hit or miss with anything other than youtube.

you could try this as a command to pick the best video less than 1GB and the best audio (it worked on 7plus):

-f "bv[filesize_approx<1G],ba"

you could also try limiting it by the video bitrate
example below will pick the highest bitrate video but below 3000kbps, and the best audio

-f "bv[vbr<3000],ba"

what codes do you use to choose what size format you download

[lomero]

yt-dlp -F "https://link"

this shows a list of all available formats