Priority over qualities?

[aidinzolghadr]

Hi,

Is it possible to set several qualities in order of importance so if youtube-dl cannot find first specified quality for that file, would fall back to other ones like 720p->480p->360p ?

Thanks

[dstftw]

Provide concrete examples.

[aidinzolghadr]

For example when you want to download a file, instead of passing one quality setting via -f switch, add several in order of importance like -f 720p,480p,240p so when youtube-dl wants to download the file with 720p, if it encounters with error that such quality is not available for that file, it would got for the next requested quality which is 480p in this case.

[dstftw]

This is already supported. Bother to read FAQ.

[aidinzolghadr]

I can't find it in the FAQ.

[r13s]

It's here.

Try something like this:
-f "best[height=720]/best[height=480]/best[height=240]"

Or for any available quality up to 720p:
-f "best[height<=?720]"