Helper Presets

Common presets are not usable by themselves- setting one of these as the sole preset of your subscription and attempting to download will not work. But you can add these presets to quickly modify an existing preset to better suit your needs.

Best A/V Quality

Add the following preset to download the best available video and audio quality, and remux it into an MP4 container:

best_video_quality

Max 1080p Video

Add the following preset to download the best available audio and video quality, with the video not greater than 1080p, and remux it into an MP4 container:

max_1080p

Chunk Initial Download

If you are archiving a large channel, ytdl-sub will try pulling each video’s metadata from newest to oldest before starting any downloads. It is a long process and not ideal. A better method is to chunk the process by using the following preset:

chunk_initial_download

It will download videos starting from the oldest one, and only download 20 at a time. You can change this number by setting:

ytdl_options:
  max_downloads: 30  # Desired number to download per invocation

Once the entire channel is downloaded, remove this preset. Then it will pull metadata from newest to oldest again, and stop pulling additional metadata once it reaches a video that has already been downloaded.