Youtube Red audio stops for downloaded videos - audio

I am uploading videos to Youtube, and on my Android phone I am downloading them using Youtube Red. I am playing these downloaded videos in the background, when the screen is off.
This works with the wast majority of the videos, except the ones that I am uploading.
I did read the recommended upload formats, I tried several codecs, but no luck. My audios stop the second I am shutting off the screen.
What I finally found using youtube-dl -F is that my videos do not have audio-only tracks with webm extension, only as m4a (after Youtube processed them).
So my question is: what makes Youtube create webm audio files for some videos, but not for the others? Is there a way to force this (I suppose not). Is there a way to suggest it? As I mentioned, I tried a wide variety of codecs - video and audio, and the combinations - when generating my files to be uplaoded.
A sample output for a file which works:
format code extension resolution note
249 webm audio only DASH audio 52k , opus # 50k, 73.58KiB
250 webm audio only DASH audio 66k , opus # 70k, 92.62KiB
251 webm audio only DASH audio 114k , opus #160k, 161.14KiB
171 webm audio only DASH audio 115k , vorbis#128k, 161.27KiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 127k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2#128k, 180.79KiB
and the output for one file which does not:
format code extension resolution note
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 49k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5# 48k (22050Hz), 1.20MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2#128k (44100Hz), 3.20MiB

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EDIT #1
I have video player which plays mp4 video files , it only support playback of a recorded mp4 file which is createtd using "-movflags faststart" , normal mp4 files does not play in that.
This is the player
https://github.com/sonysuqin/WasmVideoPlayer.
Since i am tryng to stream live video to the player, its not possible to use movflags faststart.
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