# -*- pod -*-
=head1 NAME
-youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com
+youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube.com.
+youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube.com or any other of
+the supported video platforms.
+
+Currently supported sites are: CollegeHumor, Comedy Central, Dailymotion,
+Facebook, Metacafe, MyVideo, Photobucket, The Escapist, Vimeo, Yahoo!,
+YouTube, blip.tv, depositfiles.com, video.google.com, xvideos, Soundcloud,
+InfoQ, Mixcloud, OpenClassRoom.
Once it is installed in your system, you should be able to call it from
the command line. Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed
=back
-Note that not all videos are available in all formats.
+Note that not all videos are available in all formats and that other
+sites supported by B<youtube-dl> may have different conventions for
+their video formats.
+
+By default, youtube-dl will download the best available format; if you want
+to download the worst format to save bandwidth and time, use C<-f> I<worst>.
=item --all-formats
Do not use the I<Last-modified> header to set the file modification time.
+=item --extract-audio
+
+Create an audio-only file extracted from the video downloaded. Requires that
+ffmpeg and ffprobe be installed.
+
+=item --audio-format=B<FORMAT>
+
+Set the audio format to be used for the extraction. Possible values are
+I<best>, I<aac>, I<mp3>, with I<best> being the default.
+
=back
=head1 OUTPUT TEMPLATE