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New (Additional) option #17

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opened 2026-02-20 20:59:46 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 20:59:46 -05:00

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Originally created by @rg3 on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010).

Was: http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/issue/54/

new option idea..

right now you have an option called "--best-quality" or "-b" which prints out the best quality provided by youtube

so if there's 3 qualities of the video available.. 1. (video.flv - Low Quality 320x240) 2. (video.mp4 - High Quality 480x360) 3. (video.flv - High Quality 640x480)

Option "-b" will print out the url to the "(video.flv - High Quality 640x480)"

Which is awesome.. but it might come in handy for some people to have an option that prints out all the available urls (qualities)

So for example: "--all-qualities" will print out all 3 available quality URLs: 1. the direct cache url to low quality flv 2. the direct cache url to mp4 3. the direct cache url to high quality flv

Originally created by @rg3 on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010). Was: http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/issue/54/ new option idea.. right now you have an option called "--best-quality" or "-b" which prints out the best quality provided by youtube so if there's 3 qualities of the video available.. 1. (video.flv - Low Quality 320x240) 2. (video.mp4 - High Quality 480x360) 3. (video.flv - High Quality 640x480) Option "-b" will print out the url to the "(video.flv - High Quality 640x480)" Which is awesome.. but it might come in handy for some people to have an option that prints out all the available urls (qualities) So for example: "--all-qualities" will print out all 3 available quality URLs: 1. the direct cache url to low quality flv 2. the direct cache url to mp4 3. the direct cache url to high quality flv

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deekerman commented

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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010):

This is a very specific and not very useful option for most people, but I'll implement it if it's easy enough to do it. I'll look at the code later.

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010): This is a very specific and not very useful option for most people, but I'll implement it if it's easy enough to do it. I'll look at the code later.

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 20:59:49 -05:00

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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010):

Originally by anonymous:

or instead perhaps a MP4 option (if not the one above).. cause "-b" will always print the high quality FLV instead of the MP4.. which is not useable on portable devices etc. so most people usually go for the MP4

--MP4 ? =)

all those extra options might be very useful for some

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010): Originally by anonymous: or instead perhaps a MP4 option (if not the one above).. cause "-b" will always print the high quality FLV instead of the MP4.. which is not useable on portable devices etc. so most people usually go for the MP4 --MP4 ? =) all those extra options might be very useful for some

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2026-02-20 20:59:49 -05:00

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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010):

There's an option to download the mobile version.

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010): There's an option to download the mobile version.

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 20:59:49 -05:00

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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010):

Originally by anonymous:

This seems to get close:

youtube-dl -g -s --all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXMkkRXv5o

The output can be hard to read, and no indication of missing formats is present

Maybe the output could have show whether each format is available or not and look similar to the output from:

youtube-dl -s --all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXMkkRXv5o

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2010): Originally by anonymous: This seems to get close: youtube-dl -g -s --all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXMkkRXv5o The output can be hard to read, and no indication of missing formats is present Maybe the output could have show whether each format is available or not and look similar to the output from: youtube-dl -s --all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXMkkRXv5o

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