YouTube Download Only 360p or No Sound? Why It Happens
We listed every format of a 4K YouTube video: 37 were video-only and just 1, a 360p MP4, had sound. Why downloads drop to 360p or go silent, and the fix.
October 11, 2026
Technologies
How video encoding, keyframes, and formats work.
Sign In to Confirm You're Not a Bot: Fixes for yt-dlp
yt-dlp's maintainers tie this error to your IP and request rate. Fix order: update yt-dlp (14 releases in a year), drop the VPN, slow down, then cookies.
October 11, 2026
How to Cut Video Without Losing Quality
A stream copy cut keeps 100% of the original quality, but it can only start at a keyframe. Here is how to cut with FFmpeg or LosslessCut, and when to re-encode.
March 9, 2025