Clarify that --dump-pages encodes the pages using base64 (#5781)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index dd07266b7b5e726ab568cb49a152ad702935db51..5a2315bd96ce0c6abfdf4a8bea65aa68e6fa370b 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     verbosity.add_option(
         '--dump-pages', '--dump-intermediate-pages',
         action='store_true', dest='dump_intermediate_pages', default=False,
-        help='Print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)')
+        help='Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)')
     verbosity.add_option(
         '--write-pages',
         action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,