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		justinclift on Jan 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos Maybe it's sending the same bitstream for both?

c1ncy28 on Jan 1, 2024 [–]

He's just downloading both the aac audio and h264 video stream, and then renaming the resulting mp4 file to .mp3

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