[ronnel0918]

  Known methods are ClipConverter.cc & Freemake Downloader. Download the entire 720p video with no converting. Typicaly default with no extra settings.

 
Thanks! Already found keepvid. 

 

[ronnel0918]

  How to capture YouTube at Max Quality. (This is educational and not meant for "copyright Infringement")
The Goal of any qudio recording is Purity. This is my method for preserving bit perfect from the small limited audio quality from YouTube.
Things NOT to do As in 2013:
1. Do not Use YouTube to MP3 converted, or any convertion.
2. Do not use any other codec than H.264 AAC as the others codecs the audio is very poor on youtube servers.
3. Do Not capture from YouTube's browser player.
These are my rough steps:
1. Download the entire H.264 video at MAX quality, lucky best if you get 720p or "Original" which is AAC LC VBR 192kbs plus. This can be done through many methods & software, main thing directly capture the video file from youtube with no convertion.
2. DEMUX (demultiplexing not convert) the AAC LC audio track from the H.264 video file, this can be done through many method MP4Box being the most well known.
3. Repack the AAC LC file into a ".M4A" file which will provide compatibility and metadata.
4. Add Meta Data & album art into .M4A file, Finnished.
In my method at no point was the audio file from the Youtube Video converted thus no corruption occured. From my experience even using the best H.264 hardware converting the ACC LC still is degraded from the original. Remember Purity.

 
Hi again,
 
Tried your method (I used ffmpeg, though) and got the AAC file. The thing is, I am not sure how to repack the AAC. How'd you do that? I converted the AAC to M4A using dBpoweramp.

 

[neojhun]

Oh woops, i should of mentioned YAMB GUI for MB4Box. That is the tool that will Demux (Split) & Mux (Pack) the mp4 files. After you Mux the mp4 files just change the file extention to .m4a

 

[kylezo]

  Oh woops, i should of mentioned YAMB GUI for MB4Box. That is the tool that will Demux (Split) & Mux (Pack) the mp4 files. After you Mux the mp4 files just change the file extention to .m4a

 
I am unable to mux aac into mp4 or m4a with yamb. Just says, "muxing failed".

 

[serman005]

  Oh woops, i should of mentioned YAMB GUI for MB4Box. That is the tool that will Demux (Split) & Mux (Pack) the mp4 files. After you Mux the mp4 files just change the file extention to .m4a

My ipod thanks you.

 

[Stuart Deyes]

You're totally correct there. Before I started my first YouTube channel,I wanted to find out whether or not the sound was a better bit rate depending on the video quality. So I downloaded several different videos in 480,720 & 1080p & found that the audio track for all 3 was 126kbps. It did used to be 192kbps so I'm guessing they stepped the bit rate down to save a bit of space. As a result,apart from video files that I upload in 720p,all music only files are upped in 480p