Merge branch 'lecture2go' of https://github.com/nichdu/youtube-dl into nichdu-lecture2go

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / postprocessor / common.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/common.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/common.py
index ef9fdfa19a5562b6b85840ce129b632967b30326..4191d040bb1da468e248d57b78df1afdacf64cd0 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/common.py
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
 
     PostProcessor objects follow a "mutual registration" process similar
     to InfoExtractor objects.
+
+    Optionally PostProcessor can use a list of additional command-line arguments
+    with self._configuration_args.
     """
 
     _downloader = None
@@ -42,14 +45,14 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
         one has an extra field called "filepath" that points to the
         downloaded file.
 
-        This method returns a tuple, the first element of which describes
-        whether the original file should be kept (i.e. not deleted - None for
-        no preference), and the second of which is the updated information.
+        This method returns a tuple, the first element is a list of the files
+        that can be deleted, and the second of which is the updated
+        information.
 
         In addition, this method may raise a PostProcessingError
         exception if post processing fails.
         """
-        return None, information  # by default, keep file and do nothing
+        return [], information  # by default, keep file and do nothing
 
     def try_utime(self, path, atime, mtime, errnote='Cannot update utime of file'):
         try:
@@ -57,6 +60,13 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
         except Exception:
             self._downloader.report_warning(errnote)
 
+    def _configuration_args(self, default=[]):
+        pp_args = self._downloader.params.get('postprocessor_args')
+        if pp_args is None:
+            return default
+        assert isinstance(pp_args, list)
+        return pp_args
+
 
 class AudioConversionError(PostProcessingError):
     pass