specifying video-format(s) for downloading playlist
I'm trying to download youtube playlist in bestaudo+bestvideo quality. It downloaded the first video but for second video it throwing error ERROR: requested format not available.
QUESTION:
How to make youtube-dl to fetch the 2nd video in some other quality if the passed quality is not available?
First I've issued this command
youtube-dl -f bestaudio+bestvideo ""
[youtube:playlist] PLvwB65U8V0HHCEyW2UTyOJym5FsdqfbHQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: OpenCV Tutorials
[youtube:playlist] playlist OpenCV Tutorials: Downloading 11 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 11
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Extracting video information
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: The first format must contain the video, try using "-f 136+141"Then
OpenCV Tutorials [Kyle Hounslow] youtube-dl -f 136+141 ""
[youtube:playlist] PLvwB65U8V0HHCEyW2UTyOJym5FsdqfbHQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: OpenCV Tutorials
[youtube:playlist] playlist OpenCV Tutorials: Downloading 11 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 11
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Extracting video information
[youtube] cgo0UitHfp8: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] OpenCV (All Versions) - Easy Installation Guide and Sample Project (VS 2010 C++)-cgo0UitHfp8.mp4 has already been downloaded and merged
[download] Downloading video 2 of 11
[youtube] OjNClUIDgt8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] OjNClUIDgt8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] OjNClUIDgt8: Extracting video information
[youtube] OjNClUIDgt8: Downloading MPD manifest
ERROR: requested format not available1 Answer
As stated in the first error message:
ERROR: The first format must contain the video
So it should be -f bestvideo+bestaudio not -f bestaudio+bestvideo. Moreover you don't need to specify any format at all - best possible quality will be downloaded by default automatically.
