# When the link refers to a video on a playlist, download only the video by default
--no-playlist

# Limit the number of simultaneous downloads
--concurrent-fragments 10

# Select best video up to 720p and best available audio
--format "bestvideo[height<=?720][fps<=?45][vbr<=?3000]+bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestvideo[height<=?720]+bestaudio/bestvideo+bestaudio"

# Prefer formats that use free and open-source codecs
--prefer-free-formats

# Disable post-processing to save CPU resources
--no-post-overwrites
--no-mtime

# Set a download speed limit to reduce CPU load
--limit-rate 500K

# Disable embed thumbnails to save CPU
--no-embed-thumbnail

# Adjust logging verbosity to minimal to save CPU
--quiet

# Set user-agent if required (sometimes helps with certain sites)
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"

# Set the output file template (adjust the path as needed)
--output "%(title)s.%(ext)s"