Option to always download a single media file

[Rudloff]

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It would be useful to have a way to specify that I want a single media file.
In some situations, I need to use --get-url to get the URL to a video (in order to use it in another tool) but youtube-dl detects a recent version of avconv so it outputs two separate URLs.
Would it be possible to have an option like --prefer-single that makes youtube-dl behave as if the avconv version is too old to mux separate files.

[yan12125]

-f best should work.

[Rudloff]

Oh you're right, sorry I didn't see that.