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authorDimitris Zlatanidis <d.zlatanidis@gmail.com>2015-12-03 04:02:39 +0200
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-12-05 07:58:39 +0700
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network/youtube-dl: Updated for version 2015.11.27.1.
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Zlatanidis <d.zlatanidis@gmail.com>
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@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested
.RE
.TP
.B \-F, \-\-list\-formats
-List all available formats
+List all available formats of specified videos
.RS
.RE
.TP
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ Write subtitle file
.RE
.TP
.B \-\-write\-auto\-sub
-Write automatic subtitle file (YouTube only)
+Write automatically generated subtitle file (YouTube only)
.RS
.RE
.TP
@@ -1132,6 +1132,20 @@ We\[aq]re considering to provide a way to let you solve the
CAPTCHA (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154), but at the
moment, your best course of action is pointing a webbrowser to the
youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube\-dl.
+.SS Do I need any other programs?
+.PP
+youtube\-dl works fine on its own on most sites.
+However, if you want to convert video/audio, you\[aq]ll need
+avconv (https://libav.org/) or ffmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/).
+On some sites \- most notably YouTube \- videos can be retrieved in a
+higher quality format without sound.
+youtube\-dl will detect whether avconv/ffmpeg is present and
+automatically pick the best option.
+.PP
+Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be
+downloaded when rtmpdump (https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) is installed.
+Downloading MMS and RTSP videos requires either
+mplayer (http://mplayerhq.hu/) or mpv (https://mpv.io/) to be installed.
.SS I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?
.PP
Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as