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more questions about yt-dlp arguments on debian (excluding av1, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.07.21

aim: to download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 1080p, excluding av1 as well.

What works:

yt-dlp -f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] -S height:1080 --all-subs

but this command downloads, if possible, av1, which target hardware doesn't support for longer than 5 minutes.

Argument I don't know to add correctly:

[vcodec!*=av01]

I tried:

yt-dlp -f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4][vcodec!*=av01] -S height:1080 --all-subs

and other variations, but it didn't work.

second question, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down: neither ctrl+c nor ctrl+q work and opening htop to kill the process seems overkill. What I now do is to simply shut the active tab, but there must be a faster way.

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

second question, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down: neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work and opening htop to kill the process seems overkill. What I now do is to simply shut the active tab, but there must be a faster way.

Ctrl+C.

[–] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

thank you for pointing that out, corrected.

what happens on my computer: on a terminal, I press ctrl+c but the process keeps working, yt-dlp keeps downloading. As said, the only way to stop it is to shut the tab down (or htop and kill)

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