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Bash alias for forced MP4 youtube-dl
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Youtube-DL MP4

Add the alias to your shell profile.

Depending on your system, shell and local/remote connection, the file sourced(loaded) may change.

For BASH and Debian, you could edit ~/.bash_profile

nano ~/.bash_profile

Force MP4

It is common to get a mkv from youtube because the streams downloaded are not compatible with mp4.

It is easy to force the best mp4 streams though.

Add this to your shell profile file

alias youtube-dl-mp4="youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4'"

OR

alias youtube-dl-mp4='youtube-dl -f '\''bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4'\'''

Then you need to reload/reconnect the shell or source the profile again.

Use

To use you can just call it

youtube-dl-mp4 <url>
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