Turn off post processing

[a3leggeddog]

Hello -

I have a video that I'm trying to download that has a non-uniform pixel ratio. When youtube-dl (great product, btw) finishes the download, it tries to use ffmpeg to correct this problem. Unfortunately, this is resulting in the following error:

[download] Destination: test.mp4
[download] 100% of 15.44MiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Fixing aspect ratio in "test.mp4"
ERROR: Unrecognized option 'c'

Is there a way to tell youtube-dl not to worry about fixing the aspect ratio problem?

Thanks!

[dstftw]

Update ffmpeg or pass --fixup warn.

[a3leggeddog]

Thank you for such a prompt reply! I just found that switch in the docs as well - missed it on my first read through.

[dstftw]

I'd still suggest you updating ffmpeg as you may encounter similar problems further, e.g. with bestvideo+bestaudio muxing.

[a3leggeddog]

ok, will do. Thank you.

[fkbreitl]

Hello, I have the same problem. I want to keep my audio and video streams separate for audio only players. I can use the -k option to prevent deletion of the files but --fixup warn or --fixup never doesn't prevent the muxing of the stream. How can I stop this?