video format with yt-dlp --list-formats

[blanc]

Hi,

with „yt-dlp --list-formats” I’ve got a video format with the following parameters:

EXT = mp4, PROTO = https

1. What does HTTPS mean? Or are there streaming transfers that don’t use https?
2. Do I have to save the file as mp4?

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Hi,

with „yt-dlp --list-formats” I’ve got a video format with the following parameters:

EXT = mp4, PROTO = https

1. What does HTTPS mean? Or are there streaming transfers that don’t use https?
2. Do I have to save the file as mp4?

1. HTTPS
   HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (You did try Google first did you?) Https stops anyone spying on the web traffic as it passes from source to you - as such it is in widespread use. Browsers routinely refuse to use the older http protocol.
2. Save As MP4
   yt-dlp will save to the format that the stream already has. If you do not like mp4 format you can use ffmpeg to change it to, say, mkv. How to do that is a google search way no doubt.

You can help yourself, primarily from Google, for these baby-steps. yt-dlp also has 'help' try yt-dlp --help

[blanc]

To PROTO: there are also formats that PROTO = m3u8_n. What’s the difference to https?

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

To PROTO: there are also formats that PROTO = m3u8_n. What’s the difference to https?

If I tell you that proto is short for protocol and if I tell you that Google says "M3U8 are playlist files used by video and audio players to store the location of media files. The stored information is in plain text in M3U8 files, which helps the user to play media files quickly. These files may use URLs or absolute paths to refer to a specific media file or a folder.". And if I tell you that Https is a transfer protocol does that help.

I cannot imagine what you're up to though.