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authorJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2015-04-19 18:37:38 +0200
committerJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2015-04-19 18:53:28 +0200
commita38050925958c48175bf56a988e9714edef8f12f (patch)
tree110ab480517056ae0488071dbaf583c88f505e40 /youtube_dl/options.py
parentc0dea0a782a1035225ad25d556e398e2909f62db (diff)
Move the documentation for the `--format` option to the manpage
It's too big for beeing embedded in the help message and it's easier to edit in the markdown file.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 11603f60d..39c38c980 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -322,32 +322,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
video_format.add_option(
'-f', '--format',
action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
- help=(
- 'Video format code, specify the order of preference using'
- ' slashes, as in -f 22/17/18 . '
- ' Instead of format codes, you can select by extension for the '
- 'extensions aac, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm. '
- 'You can also use the special names "best",'
- ' "bestvideo", "bestaudio", "worst". '
- ' You can filter the video results by putting a condition in'
- ' brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]"'
- ' (or -f "[filesize>10M]"). '
- ' This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, vbr, asr, and fps'
- ' and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, !='
- ' and for ext, acodec, vcodec, container, and protocol'
- ' and the comparisons =, != .'
- ' Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you'
- ' put a question mark (?) after the operator.'
- ' You can combine format filters, so '
- '-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]" '
- 'selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not '
- 'known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s.'
- ' By default, youtube-dl will pick the best quality.'
- ' Use commas to download multiple audio formats, such as'
- ' -f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio.'
- ' You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single'
- ' file using -f <video-format>+<audio-format> (requires ffmpeg or'
- ' avconv), for example -f bestvideo+bestaudio.'))
+ help='Video format code, see the "FORMAT SELECTION" for all the info')
video_format.add_option(
'--all-formats',
action='store_const', dest='format', const='all',