Prefer ffmpeg over avconv by default (closes #8622)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 2a405c5ca..38ba43a97 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     http_chunk_size.
 
     The following options are used by the post processors:
-    prefer_ffmpeg:     If True, use ffmpeg instead of avconv if both are available,
-                       otherwise prefer avconv.
+    prefer_ffmpeg:     If False, use avconv instead of ffmpeg if both are available,
+                       otherwise prefer ffmpeg.
     postprocessor_args: A list of additional command-line arguments for the
                         postprocessor.