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How do I use --max-quality correctly? #4028

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esamo opened this issue Oct 25, 2014 · 2 comments
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How do I use --max-quality correctly? #4028

esamo opened this issue Oct 25, 2014 · 2 comments

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@esamo
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@esamo esamo commented Oct 25, 2014

Hello again and thanks for a great tool.

Why for example "youtube-dl --max-quality=480p Hd27MHRwnMI" will download video 720p while Youtube shows smaller versions / worse quality available? How should I use the option?

Regards & respect.

@clampak
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@clampak clampak commented Nov 3, 2014

You use it by specifying a numeric format code. You can get a list of all the formats available and their corresponding codes by using the -F or --list-formats option.

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@jaimeMF jaimeMF commented Jan 26, 2015

With the last version of youtube-dl you can use -f best[height<=480]. As @clampak said --max-quality is intended to work with the format codes.

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