Setting lower quality with --max-quality

[antanatman]

Hi,

I'm using youtube-dl==2014.02.28 on Linux Mint in virtualenv. I am trying to set lower than best quality of download, but it does not seem to work.

For example, all of below download the best available quality:

youtube-dl --max-quality=240p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIu85WQTPRc
youtube-dl --max-quality=240 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIu85WQTPRc
youtube-dl --max-quality 240p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIu85WQTPRc
youtube-dl --max-quality 240 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIu85WQTPRc

Am I misusing the --max-quality FORMAT, or is it a bug?

[clampak]

--max-quality refers to a format code. See #4028.

[jaimeMF]

With the last version you can use -f best[height<=240]. Thanks for the report.