webm

[semprom]

Is there a way NOT TO download videos in webm format? If yes how, and if no can the dev add a option for this?

Thanks.

[phihag]

You can choose the desired format with -f, although there's currently no fallback. youtube-dl will only choose webm when it's the best quality available.

[phihag]

Ok, format fallback is included in 2011.09.16, released just now. If you don't want webm videos (from youtube), use

youtube-dl --format 38/37/22/35/34/18/6/5/17/13

This is assuming you still want youtube-dl to pick the highest-quality video of the remaining ones, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube#Quality_and_codecs for details about what each number means.

Also, we'd love to hear why you don't want webm videos in the first place. Did you have problems downloading those with youtube-dl?

[semprom]

First thank you.
I own a website for converting videos from youtube to mp3 and i can't get ffmpeg to convert webm.

Thank you very much for the help.

[phihag]

@semprom With ffmpeg 0.8.3, the following works just fine for me:

youtube-dl --format 45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHlDtZ6Oc3s --extract-audio --audio-format mp3

[semprom]

Everything is working perfectly now. Thanks!
Just one think. Why when i type "youtube-dl -U" the respond is "Updated youtube-dl. Restart to use the new version."
I rebooted the server but this message is still there.

[semprom]

@phihag i use the ffmpeg from debian-multimedia.org so ... but thanks. it works now :)

[phihag]

@semprom restart means just restarting youtube-dl. There is no need to restart the server, ever. But that is indeed a bug, I'll fix it.