--no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time
--write-description Write video description to a .description file
--write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
- --write-annotations Write video annotations to a .annotation file
+ --write-annotations Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
--load-info FILE JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)
--cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl
--recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if necessary (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv)
-k, --keep-video Keep the video file on disk after the post-processing; the video is erased by default
--no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files; the post-processed files are overwritten by default
- --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos)
+ --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos)
--embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
--add-metadata Write metadata to the video file
--metadata-from-title FORMAT Parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. The format syntax is the same as --output, the parsed