YouTube videos producing .WebM files.

peter nelson

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Jul 2, 2018, 3:08:47 PM7/2/18

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When I use Video Download Helper 7.3.1 on Firefox with YouTube I'm now getting .WebM format files, which are useless to me because I can't natively import them into Premiere Pro. This appears to be new behavior in recent months.

If I use XetoWare Free YouTube Downloader on the exact same YouTube files e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OemqVWi_R0k , I get an MP4 file.

What's going on?

Thanks in advance for explaining this.

mig

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Jul 2, 2018, 4:01:01 PM7/2/18

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When i play the video at this URL, the page plays a video stream in VP9 encoding and audio in Vorbis (it's YouTube choice not ours). Those encodings cannot be used in a MP4 file format (the only choices are WEBM or MKV). Still, you can use the embedded encoder (or an external one) to encode to H264/AAC in MP4 format.

eric nyame

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Jul 6, 2018, 1:37:07 PM7/6/18

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I need a you tube downloader that can download very faster for me

mig

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Jul 7, 2018, 4:53:32 AM7/7/18

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On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 7:37:07 PM UTC+2, eric nyame wrote:

I need a you tube downloader that can download very faster for me

VDH for Firefox ?

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