Merge pull request #5376 from PeteHemery/ffmpeg-postproc-utime-bug

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 68193a27141ed8949bdfb69d81ce1a46422ac373..5720fb424ff44ac3e659a797ee2bef8a5a1529b1 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from .compat import (
     compat_kwargs,
 )
 from .utils import (
+    preferredencoding,
     write_string,
 )
 from .version import __version__
@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     video_format.add_option(
         '--max-quality',
         action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT',
-        help='Specify highest quality format to download')
+        help='Highest quality format to download')
     video_format.add_option(
         '-F', '--list-formats',
         action='store_true', dest='listformats',
@@ -398,7 +399,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     subtitles.add_option(
         '--sub-format',
         action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
-        help='Specify subtitle format preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
+        help='Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
     subtitles.add_option(
         '--sub-lang', '--sub-langs', '--srt-lang',
         action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
@@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
               '%(format)s for the format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or "HD"), '
               '%(format_id)s for the unique id of the format (like YouTube\'s itags: "137"), '
               '%(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), '
-              '%(extractor)s for the provider (YouTube, metacafe, etc), '
+              '%(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), '
               '%(id)s for the video id, '
               '%(playlist_title)s, %(playlist_id)s, or %(playlist)s (=title if present, ID otherwise) for the playlist the video is in, '
               '%(playlist_index)s for the position in the playlist. '
@@ -625,7 +626,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option(
         '-A', '--auto-number',
         action='store_true', dest='autonumber', default=False,
-        help='[deprecated; use  -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" ] Number of downloaded files starting from 00000')
+        help='[deprecated; use  -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" ] Number downloaded files starting from 00000')
     filesystem.add_option(
         '-t', '--title',
         action='store_true', dest='usetitle', default=False,
@@ -669,7 +670,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     filesystem.add_option(
         '--load-info',
         dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
-        help='Specify JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-json" option)')
+        help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
     filesystem.add_option(
         '--cookies',
         dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE',
@@ -797,7 +798,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         # Workaround for Python 2.x, where argv is a byte list
         if sys.version_info < (3,):
             command_line_conf = [
-                a.decode('utf-8', 'replace') for a in command_line_conf]
+                a.decode(preferredencoding(), 'replace') for a in command_line_conf]
 
         if '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
             system_conf = []