From: Sergey M Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:18:25 +0000 (+0500) Subject: [README.md] Clarify unavailable sequences in output format X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c84d3a557de8eddc8e63adbd11ab40877f52c502;p=youtube-dl [README.md] Clarify unavailable sequences in output format --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7c582511f..79cd08df4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ The `-o` option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. T - `format_id`: The sequence will be replaced by the format code specified by `--format`. - `duration`: The sequence will be replaced by the length of the video in seconds. +Note that some of the aforementioned sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, such sequences will be replaced with `NA`. + The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`. In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the `--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title: