>>1211508>Is there any tool that will download a complete 4K video that has both audio and video intact?There are two mentioned in this thread. These are:
Youtube Video and Audio Downloader (webex) downloadable via
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YT-DLP via
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlpYoutube Dowloader (WEBEX):
This is the GUI tool which is an extension installs in your Firefox browser. It gives you a convenient point and click listing of downloadable media files from 4K to the smallest available. It's one problem is that google/youtube is easily able to detect its use since it operates in your browser. Once detected, google/youtube throttles the download speed to be agonizingly slow. Because you didn't want a beating from 50 Shades of Gray, so google/youtube decided to give you a stronger beating from 900 Shades of Gray instead.
YT-DLP:
This one is a command line tool, so elitists love it as it reduces the number of non-elite people that can use it. It doesn't install in the browser, so youtube/google can't easily stop it (unless they write malware). You need to download and install it such that it's seen in your O/S environment variables. You also need to install FFMPEG (and its associate ffprobe) or else you'll end up with separate video and audio files.
One everything is properly installed, open a command line window and go to the directory you want the youtube file to appear after downloading. Then to get the best video and best audio version of the file at the youtube URL, use the command:
yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" youtube_URL_here
If you don't know how to install ffmpeg/ffprobe/etc then install addon "Media Conversion Tool" via
>>1207723 to get a firefox extension GUI to combine the two files (video+audio) together into one nice media file.
TLDR fastest way to download for non-elites:
download 64-bit YT-DLP.exe to c:\windows folder. Install "Media Conversion tool" extension into firefox. Run yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" URL and use media convert tool.
