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I am trying to download a 4k video from weibo, but I am running into issues. Once downloaded the quality is terrible and blurry, despite looking good on the website.

https://m.weibo.cn/status/4800376257119180

it also has issues pulling the various formats, possibly b/c videos on weibo are embedded on the webpage, even though there are several formats available when watching the video yourself.

yt-dlp.exe --verbose -F https://m.weibo.cn/status/4800376257119180
[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', '-F', 'https://m.weibo.cn/status/4800376257119180']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.08.08 [3157158] (win32_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2022-07-28-git-6f7d3bde11-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 2022-07-28-git-6f7d3bde11-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [WeiboMobile] Extracting URL: https://m.weibo.cn/status/4800376257119180
[WeiboMobile] 4800376257119180: visit the page
[info] Available formats for 4800376257119180:
ID EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC
───────────────────────────────────────────
0  mp4 unknown    │ https │ unknown unknown

i see that yt-dlp supports weibo, but i haven’t seen many posts about it. i am wondering if something changed recently and the extractor is out of date, or if there was some trick to downloading videos from the site.

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