Why youtube-dl is converting the downloaded video to a different format

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I am downloading a video but youtube-dl is converting it to something else using ffmeg. This doesn't usually happens, what should I do ?

Here is the log,

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Edit

If I try to download same video on a different computer this is the log I get,

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Here is the link to playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF88E87B145457F95

There is 100% something different on my computer 🙁

Best Answer

youtube-dl isn't converting anything. It has separately downloaded the audio and video stream. But the audio can't be muxed into a MP4 so it's muxing them into a MKV. There's no compression involved. Use -f 133+140 to get a MP4.

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