On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 21:58, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using the normal youtube-dl <link to video> command. No options or > anything. This is what I have in the conf file. > > > --format > bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best > > --merge-output-format mp4 > > > Those options worked for a long time so I guess something changed with > youtube-dl. I don't get why it says the options are a URL either. When > I google, I can't find where anyone is getting this error or using > different options either, at least not to accomplish the same goal. I
I took a quick look at the commit history, and it seems the documentation for the format options haven't changed in at least a year, so it's hard to say if it is actually youtube-dl being the culprit here. Might be a quoting problem. Have you changed or updated anything regarding your terminal emulator lately? Maybe run your command with the verbose flag (-v) and see if it tells you the full command it is trying to run. Notice in the docs the whole format string is quoted with single quotes. Regards, Arve
