>>/17217/ I thought I would recode it, but later I realized YouTube has multiple streams with differing quality. You can do something like: $ youtube-dl 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=m7XZmugtLv4‘ -F (output compressed manually here for brevity, there are even more streams and you should match audio and video stream of the same type - either webm+webm or m4a+mp4, otherwise the resulting file will be unplayable in web browsers) format code extension resolution note 250 webm audio only tiny 73k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 8.38MiB 251 webm audio only tiny 142k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 15.14MiB 243 webm 640x360 360p 450k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 34.46MiB 244 webm 854x480 480p 867k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 61.47MiB 247 webm 1280x720 720p 1866k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 128.83MiB 248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2887k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 226.14MiB I chose audio "251" and video "244", so I executed the following command: $ youtube-dl 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=m7XZmugtLv4‘ -f 244+251 Moments later: [ffmpeg] Merging formats into "PART 1 - CNN Insider Blows Whistle on Network President Jeff Zucker’s Personal Vendetta Against POTUS-m7XZmugtLv4.webm" ...and I uploaded the 77M file. Anyone who is interested to learn about youtube-dl: https://youtube-dl.org/ Btw. it supports much more than youtube.