How to get 'youtube-dl -c -f youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]'' in your config file.

[shirishag75]

I am running youtube-dl on my Debian testing system -

Package: youtube-dl
Version: 2019.09.28-1
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'unstable-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on:
ii  python3                3.7.5-1
ii  python3-pkg-resources  41.2.0-1

Versions of packages youtube-dl recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20190110
ii  curl             7.66.0-1
ii  ffmpeg           7:4.1.4-1+b2
ii  mpv              0.29.1-1
ii  phantomjs        2.1.1+dfsg-2+b1
ii  python3-pyxattr  0.6.1-1
ii  rtmpdump         2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-2
ii  wget             1.20.3-1+b1

youtube-dl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Now I want to use the command -

youtube-dl -c -f youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]' VideoID

as default. For others which download better I use usually

youtube-dl -c -f 22 VideoID

I do have the following at my end, just need to fill stuff in, but dunno how or what.

~/.config/youtube-dl$ ls -lh config 
-rw-r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 0 Oct 10 00:38 config

[dstftw]

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#configuration

[shirishag75]

@dstftw I did see that, could you please expand on that a bit.