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  • Your first command listing the formats is “useless”, depending on what you define the best quality is. yt-dlp orders the output by it’s format selection (-f argument) which is bestvideo*+bestaudio/best by default which also gets affected by the format sorting (-S / --formart-sort). By default av1 use is discouraged over vp9 so I’d highly recommend you look into them if you really want to make sure it’ll downlad the best quality ones. In my experience the default settings are really good, except some fringe cases (for example if you’d rather download av1 encoded videos). Keep in mind though most digital stuff still runs h264/h265 for compatibility reasons

    Have fun learning and don’t forget to look over the yt-dlp ReadMe on github! It has all the information you’ll ever need and much more :)