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 ## DESCRIPTION
 **youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from
 YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
-2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
+2.x (x being at least 6), and it is not platform specific. It should work in
 your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
 which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
                              requested
     --max-quality FORMAT     highest quality format to download
     -F, --list-formats       list all available formats (currently youtube only)
+    --write-srt              write video closed captions to a .srt file
+                             (currently youtube only)
+    --srt-lang LANG          language of the closed captions to download
+                             (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
 
 ### Authentication Options:
     -u, --username USERNAME  account username
@@ -83,10 +87,11 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 
 ### Post-processing Options:
     --extract-audio          convert video files to audio-only files (requires
-                             ffmpeg and ffprobe)
+                             ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)
     --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
                              best by default
-    --audio-quality QUALITY  ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default
+    --audio-quality QUALITY  ffmpeg/avconv audio bitrate specification, 128k by
+                             default
     -k, --keep-video         keeps the video file on disk after the post-
                              processing; the video is erased by default
 
@@ -106,7 +111,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://w
 
 ### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
 
-The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
+The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
 
 ### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info