New upstream version 2018.04.25

[youtubedl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 4c04550444308832862517d881539ebe1b417bfe..3e4ac03a240844ef3b69fd21dbedcc441a46e5c7 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--no-resize-buffer',
         action='store_true', dest='noresizebuffer', default=False,
         help='Do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of SIZE.')
+    downloader.add_option(
+        '--http-chunk-size',
+        dest='http_chunk_size', metavar='SIZE', default=None,
+        help='Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default is disabled). '
+             'May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--test',
         action='store_true', dest='test', default=False,
@@ -671,7 +676,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option(
         '-a', '--batch-file',
         dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
-        help='File containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+        help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
+             "Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.")
     filesystem.add_option(
         '--id', default=False,
         action='store_true', dest='useid', help='Use only video ID in file name')