Merge remote-tracking branch 'alphapapa/master'

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / __init__.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 5248a92c7d09c0b2d6eb8a59c39ecc694afb3336..472ae9c0c7ef6a1f3aa5e122e8ad31778113c570 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             help='languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use IETF language tags like \'en,pt\'')
 
     downloader.add_option('-r', '--rate-limit',
-            dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT', help='maximum download rate (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
+            dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT', help='maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
     downloader.add_option('-R', '--retries',
             dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', help='number of retries (default is %default)', default=10)
     downloader.add_option('--buffer-size',