[youtube-dlp/embedding] How to download in mp4 instead of webm?

[yetanotherlogin]

Hello,

I'm trying to turn a Windows batch file using the youtube-dlp.exe binary to a Python script. They're such a pain over there in the issues section that I'd rather ask elsewhere.

Although I kept the "ext:mp4" bit, for some reason, the following script downloads the file as .webm instead of .mp4.

Any idea why?

Thank you.

import yt_dlp

yt_opts = { 'extractor-args': 'youtube:lang=fr', 'S':'width:640,ext:mp4,lang:fr-FR', 
'trim-filenames':'128',
'compat':'filename-sanitization',
'console-title':'',
'progress':'',
'progress-template':'%(progress._percent_str)s',
}

with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(yt_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHT2CtiEAhM")

[krykmoon]

Hello,

I'm trying to turn a Windows batch file using the youtube-dlp.exe binary to a Python script. They're such a pain over there in the issues section that I'd rather ask elsewhere.

Although I kept the "ext:mp4" bit, for some reason, the following script downloads the file as .webm instead of .mp4.

Any idea why?

Thank you.

import yt_dlp

yt_opts = { 'extractor-args': 'youtube:lang=fr', 'S':'width:640,ext:mp4,lang:fr-FR', 
'trim-filenames':'128',
'compat':'filename-sanitization',
'console-title':'',
'progress':'',
'progress-template':'%(progress._percent_str)s',
}

with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(yt_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHT2CtiEAhM")

Don't know about Python.. and I'm not sure if this is the YT_DLP you're talking : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

To download a video in a specific format using the command-line in YT-DLP you need to use the --format parameter (also -f ).. in your case YT_DLP.exe --format mp4 <url of the video>