Yang YouTube Downloader
Yet another YouTube downloader? Most downloaders do not give the best quality as they choose the wrong streams and re-encode them.
This downloader allows you to get either the MP4 or VP9 videos, and the AAC or Opus audios, without re-encoding to preserve the best quality. While VP9 is 35% more efficient than MP4 for videos, some videos have 40-60% smaller file sizes in VP9 format! It will automatically select the best-quality video based on file sizes. It can even combine MP4 videos with Opus audios in a MKV file, although not all players will support it. I haven't seen any other downloader that can produce a MKV file with the best video and audio without re-encoding anything.
Yang YouTube Downloader also allows to re-encode audios with all the same features as 432hz Batch Converter!
Windows (Win7 SP1 or later), Linux (all distros), MacOS.
Download and extract the ZIP file to a folder (such as C:\Program Files\YangDownloader) and run "YangDownloader.exe".
On Arch-based distros, install yangdownloader-appimage from the AUR.
On other distros, download and run the AppImage.
For a better Linux experience, you can first install AppImageLauncher which will automatically move the AppImage on first run and create a start menu shortcut.
Supports: MacOS 10.15 "Catalina" or newer.
Download and extract the ZIP file to a folder such as /Applications/YangDownloader.app
To remove code-signing security warnings, run this command in the terminal
/Applications % xattr -d com.apple.quarantine YangDownloader.app
Click on the folder to run it.
From Etienne Charland aka Hanuman, by a lightworker in his free time.