Format unavailable cause a error

[vgrimmer]

IMHO, the preferable format not found should jump to the default format if they are available, otherwise return with en error info.

$ youtube-dl -f 22 --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zut2NLMVL_k
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '22', '--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zut2NLMVL_k']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.07.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64-1.7.18-0.263-5-3-i686-32bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] zut2NLMVL_k: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] zut2NLMVL_k: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] zut2NLMVL_k: Extracting video information
ERROR: requested format not available; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbo se flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 92, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 601, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'requested format not available')
ExtractorError: requested format not available; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with th e --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[alphapapa]

Yes please, and a good way to handle this is with -i, --ignore-errors. Using that in combination with -f should get the next-best format if the requested one is not available. As it is now, to make sure a download works without having to babysit it, I have to do, e.g.:

$ youtube-dl -t -f 22 URL || youtube-dl -t URL

[vgrimmer]

That does work. Thanks!

[dstftw]

Format preference can now be specified with slash in order to jump to first available format, e.g. -f 22/best. See format selection.