Now --all-sub is a modifier to --write-sub and --write-auto-sub (closes #1412)

For keeping backwards compatibility --all-sub sets --write-sub if --write-auto-sub is not given

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 696e54f49..0022a4e7a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -533,6 +533,11 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
     else:
         date = DateRange(opts.dateafter, opts.datebefore)
 
+    # --all-sub automatically sets --write-sub if --write-auto-sub is not given
+    # this was the old behaviour if only --all-sub was given.
+    if opts.allsubtitles and (opts.writeautomaticsub == False):
+        opts.writesubtitles = True
+
     if sys.version_info < (3,):
         # In Python 2, sys.argv is a bytestring (also note http://bugs.python.org/issue2128 for Windows systems)
         if opts.outtmpl is not None: