Why force to download something which has a worse image quality and larger size? Also, YouTube has long stopped encoding >=4K videos into AVC/H.264 and they are now provided using VP9/AV1 codecs exclusively:

Youtube's WEBM videos are usually encoded using the VP9 codec which is a much more efficient and newer codec which allows to compress video better (which means a smaller file size) while providing a perceptually better image quality.Ĭan we force download 4k videos as mp4 instead of webm? If the author uploaded it in 1080p, YouTube videos. Rip YouTube content in any format, including MP3, MP4, MKV, M4A, FLV, 3GP and others. The quality depends on the uploaded file. Designed to provide conversion to a large variety of different formats, this versatile YouTube Converter allows to convert YouTube links to both audio and video files. ago I have been using 4K Video Downloader for quite a while. 4k video downloader program You can 'buy' both on pirate bay.

Youtube's MP4 videos are encoded using the H.264/AVC codec. Most videos are in MP4 format and as SD, HD, FullHD, 2K, 4K. Internet Download Manager program with chrome extension works pretty good. Which makes me wonder that either there is some quality loss or compression in webm. I have observed that the size of mp4 videos are larger than webm for a same resolution video.

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