Merge remote-tracking branch 'Boris-de/wdrmaus_fix#8562'

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 7819f14ab0b36786e06a432f15cb9e0429320288..99ce4131fdfaacbbbca07805fbc86c8563ea95fe 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -188,7 +188,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     network.add_option(
         '--proxy', dest='proxy',
         default=None, metavar='URL',
-        help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection')
+        help='Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable experimental '
+             'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
+             'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
+             'for direct connection')
     network.add_option(
         '--socket-timeout',
         dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
@@ -392,8 +395,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
 
     downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
     downloader.add_option(
-        '-r', '--rate-limit',
-        dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT',
+        '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
+        dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
         help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '-R', '--retries',
@@ -425,8 +428,12 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         help='Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--hls-prefer-native',
-        dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true',
-        help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)')
+        dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_true', default=None,
+        help='Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg')
+    downloader.add_option(
+        '--hls-prefer-ffmpeg',
+        dest='hls_prefer_native', action='store_false', default=None,
+        help='Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--hls-use-mpegts',
         dest='hls_use_mpegts', action='store_true',
@@ -661,7 +668,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         action='store_true', dest='writeannotations', default=False,
         help='Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file')
     filesystem.add_option(
-        '--load-info',
+        '--load-info-json', '--load-info',
         dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
         help='JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)')
     filesystem.add_option(