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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-08 16:14:16 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-01-08 16:14:50 +0100
commit0217c783771a6c8543046869e934f4ced56febc7 (patch)
treeaef36399d45fc86662266fe23a688e19dac87149 /youtube_dl/options.py
parentbd6b25ce0e5fabd3cb20651a1a3ed8a9cf8748e4 (diff)
[YoutubeDL] Allow selection by more extensions
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
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--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -267,10 +267,12 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
help=(
'video format code, specify the order of preference using'
- ' slashes: -f 22/17/18 . -f mp4 , -f m4a and -f flv are also'
- ' supported. You can also use the special names "best",'
- ' "bestvideo", "bestaudio", "worst", "worstvideo" and'
- ' "worstaudio". By default, youtube-dl will pick the best quality.'
+ ' 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". '
+ ' 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'