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		simongr3dal on Sept 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust... 1080p webm is around 450kbps and audio is 65kbps, so the estimate is of by 50x for the purposes of a hobbyist archive.

selfhoster11 on Sept 28, 2022 [–]

YouTube offers a number of codecs and nitrates. IIRC Opus goes up to 160kbps and m4a goes up to 128kbps, with lower bitrates also available. I imagine video is similar.

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