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diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 740458e51..9016e3498 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
action='store_true', dest='list_extractor_descriptions', default=False,
help='Output descriptions of all supported extractors')
general.add_option(
+ '--force-generic-extractor',
+ action='store_true', dest='force_generic_extractor', default=False,
+ help='Force extraction to use the generic extractor')
+ general.add_option(
'--default-search',
dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching.')
@@ -215,7 +219,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
selection.add_option(
'--playlist-items',
dest='playlist_items', metavar='ITEM_SPEC', default=None,
- help='Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist seperated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.')
+ help='Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist separated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.')
selection.add_option(
'--match-title',
dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',
@@ -342,12 +346,13 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
video_format.add_option(
'--youtube-skip-dash-manifest',
action='store_false', dest='youtube_include_dash_manifest',
- help='Do not download the DASH manifest on YouTube videos')
+ help='Do not download the DASH manifests and related data on YouTube videos')
video_format.add_option(
'--merge-output-format',
action='store', dest='merge_output_format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
help=(
- 'If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv.'
+ 'If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), '
+ 'output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv. '
'Ignored if no merge is required'))
subtitles = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Subtitle Options')
@@ -686,7 +691,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
postproc.add_option(
'--recode-video',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='recodevideo', default=None,
- help='Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv)')
+ help='Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi)')
+ postproc.add_option(
+ '--postprocessor-args',
+ dest='postprocessor_args', metavar='ARGS',
+ help='Give these arguments to the postprocessor')
postproc.add_option(
'-k', '--keep-video',
action='store_true', dest='keepvideo', default=False,