How to download single file having specific resolution without ffmpeg

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I'm using youtube-dl in an Android app and want to be able to specify the resolution of the video which should be downloaded from youtube. I know it's possible using e.g. format=bestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio however I don't have ffmpeg available on Android thus the video and audio files won't get merged. I tried to use format=best[height=360] but this only shows ERROR: requested format not available.

My question now is: Is it possible to filter by resolution only of the available single files (the files I get when I use -F)?

The example video I use:

> youtube-dl.exe -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c
[youtube] C0DPdy98e4c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] C0DPdy98e4c: Downloading video info webpage
[info] Available formats for C0DPdy98e4c:
format code  extension  resolution note
249          webm       audio only tiny   25k , opus @ 50k (48000Hz), 43.28KiB
250          webm       audio only tiny   38k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 59.42KiB
251          webm       audio only tiny   54k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 85.16KiB
140          m4a        audio only tiny  127k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 274.02KiB
278          webm       192x144    144p   27k , webm container, vp9, 13fps, video only, 52.21KiB
160          mp4        192x144    144p   37k , avc1.4d400b, 25fps, video only, 62.40KiB
133          mp4        320x240    240p   51k , avc1.4d400d, 25fps, video only, 85.11KiB
242          webm       320x240    240p   69k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 131.47KiB
134          mp4        480x360    360p   84k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 138.98KiB
243          webm       480x360    360p  106k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 200.87KiB
135          mp4        640x480    480p  121k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 197.65KiB
244          webm       640x480    480p  153k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 287.41KiB
43           webm       640x360    360p , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 280.86KiB
18           mp4        480x360    360p  267k , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 540.04KiB (best)

[remitamine]

this command works fine:
youtube-dl -f 'best[height=360]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c

[lprc]

Whoops, I used single quotes on Windows for the format specifier. Apparently a bad idea, using double quotes works indeed. Maybe youtube-dl should include some check whether single quotes are used if the os is Windows instead of replying with a false error message.