Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

It's specific to Firefox playing the video.

Are you able to download a problem video and play it through something
else, just for comparison?

 
Yes. But the way youtube works, I don't know if the downloaded one is
same file, and it probably isn't. yt-dlp tries to get the best file
it can,

You can tweak that via the yt-dlp config file to select preferred file
versions.

Or, with -F, you can see every option that can be downloaded, and then
pick what you want to download using -f (lower case vs upper is part of
yt-dlp's CLI syntax).