X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/6777d4ce6f80809dae62f85a0c56260c50c7a1f7..b172372f4a4d0efc663968b6b10a7919f957da6a:/debian/NEWS diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index cd404f4..a82cd57 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ -youtube-dl (2010.04.04-2) unstable; urgency=low +youtube-dl (2010.07.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium - For the time being, you can play WebM files (which are VP8 for video and - Vorbis for audio, enclosed in a Matroska container) with gst123, which - was just uploaded to Debian. + The upstream author has removed support for the -b ("best format") and + the -d ("high def") command line options. - Other gstreamer-based players should support those files right away, as - long as you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad version at least 0.10.18.3-2 - installed. + The behavior now is to download the best quality for each video. + If you experience a problem with youtube-dl downloading videos that are + too large, you should consider using the --max-quality option to limit + which format to use. - Videos in those formats, where available, are taken automatically with - the use of the '-b' switch or with the specification of formats 43 (for - 360p videos) or 45 (for 720p videos). + The list of formats (in decreasing quality) can be found with: + + grep "available_formats =" /usr/bin/youtube-dl - -- Rogério Brito Sat, 29 May 2010 13:14:02 -0300 + -- Rogério Brito Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:07:03 -0300