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-f best It's in the documentation.

• asddubs 11y ago
  no, that's the highest format, not the highest format that will download in one file, as opposed to two which have to be merged, meaning playing .part files is impossible
  • clarry 11y ago
    Are you saying the documentation is wrong? And not once but twice: You can also use special names to select particular edge case format: * best: Select best quality format represented by single file with video and audio And again: > Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best as default format selection (see #5447, #5456). If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading bestvideo and bestaudio separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to best and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file
    • asddubs 11y ago
      oh duh, sorry. I thought I read somewhere that best was the default option