[MrDream]

Originally Posted by synopeas

You can't just change the number. There are other bits that are different as well.

Just change the quality in the player and wait for it to start playing. As soon as it does you can change it straight back to low quality. The link you want should be the one at the bottom of the list.

It may be possible to stop the YouTube player altogether and just use vlc to watch the stream from the file as it's downloading. I think that should work. That way you would be using all your bandwidth to download and still be able to watch it more or less as it's happening.

i understand from your descriptions that i should play the stream in hd & catch the url & back to low quality again ? yes or not
but how i can watch the stream on vlc ?! by the url.m3u8 catched or by the ts file that ffmpeg creating during download
note that the file creating by ffmpeg is still 0 kb during downloading & when i stop the downloading or close cmd window it compress the millions of small files in cmd in video.ts & become a big video that i can watch
& i have another note : the player doesn't show the time remaing of the video, it show 00:00 during watching video downloded