'--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',
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')
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,