general.add_option(
'--list-extractors',
action='store_true', dest='list_extractors', default=False,
- help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle')
+ help='List all supported extractors')
general.add_option(
'--extractor-descriptions',
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',
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',
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')
verbosity.add_option(
'--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
action='store_true', dest='dump_intermediate_pages', default=False,
- help='Print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)')
+ help='Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)')
verbosity.add_option(
'--write-pages',
action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,
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,
help='Parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. '
'The format syntax is the same as --output, '
'the parsed parameters replace existing values. '
- 'Additional templates: %(album), %(artist). '
+ 'Additional templates: %(album)s, %(artist)s. '
'Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title like '
'"Coldplay - Paradise"')
postproc.add_option(
metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
help='Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
- 'detect_or_warn(the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
+ 'detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise)')
postproc.add_option(
'--prefer-avconv',
action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',