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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 5ffc16cf89..f0543c7275 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -837,13 +837,18 @@ Program Behavior formats like HLS and DASH, if available, allowing for video/audio selection in runtime. It's disabled ("no") by default for performance reasons. -``--ytdl-format=<best|worst|mp4|webm|...>`` +``--ytdl-format=<ytdl|best|worst|mp4|webm|...>`` Video format/quality that is directly passed to youtube-dl. The possible values are specific to the website and the video, for a given url the available formats can be found with the command ``youtube-dl --list-formats URL``. See youtube-dl's documentation for available aliases. - (Default: youtube-dl's default, currently ``bestvideo+bestaudio/best``) + (Default: ``bestvideo+bestaudio/best``) + + The ``ytdl`` value does not pass a ``--format`` option to youtube-dl at all, + and thus does not override its default. Note that sometimes youtube-dl + returns a format that mpv cannot use, and in these cases the mpv default + may work better. ``--ytdl-raw-options=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]`` Pass arbitrary options to youtube-dl. Parameter and argument should be |