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		ubercow on April 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader you can also do youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio '<url>' to skip a step, since 90% of the time that's what I want anyways.

masklinn on April 8, 2016 [–]

That's been the default since April 2015,so `youtube-dl url...` is sufficient to get either the best single-file video (if no ffmpeg installed or non-youtube video) or to get both the best video and the best audio remuxed.

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