video_format.add_option(
'--prefer-free-formats',
action='store_true', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False,
- help='Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested')
+ help='Prefer free video formats over non-free formats of same quality')
video_format.add_option(
'-F', '--list-formats',
action='store_true', dest='listformats',
verbosity.add_option(
'-C', '--call-home',
dest='call_home', action='store_true', default=False,
- help='Contact the youtube-dlc server for debugging')
+ help='[Broken] Contact the youtube-dlc server for debugging')
verbosity.add_option(
'--no-call-home',
dest='call_home', action='store_false',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='recodevideo', default=None,
help='Re-encode the video into another format if re-encoding is 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')
+ '--postprocessor-args', metavar='NAME:ARGS',
+ dest='postprocessor_args', action='append',
+ help=(
+ 'Give these arguments to the postprocessors. '
+ "Specify the postprocessor name and the arguments separated by a colon ':' "
+ 'to give the argument to only the specified postprocessor. Supported names are '
+ 'ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor, EmbedSubtitle, Metadata, Merger, FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, SubtitlesConvertor, SponSkrub and Default'
+ '. You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different postprocessors'))
postproc.add_option(
'-k', '--keep-video',
action='store_true', dest='keepvideo', default=False,
help='Location of the sponskrub binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory.')
sponskrub.add_option(
'--sponskrub-args', dest='sponskrub_args', metavar='ARGS',
- help='Give these arguments to sponskrub')
+ help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
extractor = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Extractor Options')
extractor.add_option(