It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/idle_cat on 2024-06-17 16:11:41.

On youtube, I archive livestreams of a channel. Is the live archive recording I get by using ytarchive a higher quality then the video I would get with yt-dlp that's processed afterwards? From my understanding the video goes through youtube's compression. Is the compression really strong in your opinion? I am wondering if it's worth getting the vod to save space.

Side questions:

Why do people put --format "bv*+ba/b" or something similar to get when yt-dlp already has it set to get the individual best audio and video as the default? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#format-selection