Merge pull request #5523 from jaimeMF/remove-format-limit

[youtube-dl] / README.md

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@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     -f, --format FORMAT              Video format code, see the "FORMAT SELECTION" for all the info
     --all-formats                    Download all available video formats
     --prefer-free-formats            Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested
-    --max-quality FORMAT             Highest quality format to download
     -F, --list-formats               List all available formats
     --youtube-skip-dash-manifest     Do not download the DASH manifest on YouTube videos
     --merge-output-format FORMAT     If a merge is required (e.g. bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg, webm, flv.Ignored if no
@@ -324,9 +323,9 @@ YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need
 
 If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to [report bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to the [Ubuntu packaging guys](mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl) - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update.
 
-### Do I always have to pass in `--max-quality FORMAT`, or `-citw`?
+### Do I always have to pass `-citw`?
 
-By default, youtube-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally, if you have a convincing case that these should be different, [please file an issue where you explain that](https://yt-dl.org/bug)). Therefore, it is unnecessary and sometimes harmful to copy long option strings from webpages. In particular, `--max-quality` *limits* the video quality (so if you want the best quality, do NOT pass it in), and the only option out of `-citw` that is regularly useful is `-i`.
+By default, youtube-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally, if you have a convincing case that these should be different, [please file an issue where you explain that](https://yt-dl.org/bug)). Therefore, it is unnecessary and sometimes harmful to copy long option strings from webpages. In particular, the only option out of `-citw` that is regularly useful is `-i`.
 
 ### Can you please put the -b option back?
 
@@ -362,17 +361,17 @@ YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not suppo
 
 That's actually the output from your shell. Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it's interpreted by shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your shell).
 
-For example if your URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw you should end up with following command:
+For example if your URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc you should end up with following command:
 
-```youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw'```
+```youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc'```
 
 or
 
-```youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48\&v=e2CXaJv0cMw```
+```youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4\&v=BaW_jenozKc```
 
 For Windows you have to use the double quotes:
 
-```youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw"```
+```youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=BaW_jenozKc"```
 
 ### ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'OF'