if option.takes_value():
opts.append(' %s' % option.metavar)
- return "".join(opts)
+ return ''.join(opts)
def _comma_separated_values_options_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser):
setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value.split(','))
action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
default=False,
help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--mark-watched',
+ action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-mark-watched',
+ action='store_false', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
+ help='Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
general.add_option(
'--no-color', '--no-colors',
action='store_true', dest='no_color',
'--sub-lang', '--sub-langs', '--srt-lang',
action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
default=[], callback=_comma_separated_values_options_callback,
- help='Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use IETF language tags like \'en,pt\'')
+ help='Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use --list-subs for available language tags')
downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
downloader.add_option(
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--fragment-retries',
+ dest='fragment_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
+ help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH only)')
downloader.add_option(
'--buffer-size',
dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',
'--hls-prefer-native',
dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true',
help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--hls-use-mpegts',
+ dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_true',
+ help='Use the mpegts container for HLS videos, allowing to play the '
+ 'video while downloading (some players may not be able to play it)')
downloader.add_option(
'--external-downloader',
dest='external_downloader', metavar='COMMAND',
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-subs',
action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
- help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos)')
+ help='Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)')
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-thumbnail',
action='store_true', dest='embedthumbnail', default=False,