mkv
or webm
extensions can be played by VLC Media player in all major devices and operating systems including iPhone, Android devices.2018.11.07
4.1
--yes-playlist
-> Download multiple videos if the url is a playlist--ignore-errors
-> Ignore errors like geo resitriction of a video or deleted video in a playlist and continue with rest of the playlist--continue
-> Resume if any of the video is partially downloaded in the local file system--no-overwrites
-> If a file is already downloaded in local file system, then skip the download--output '~/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s
-> Specify the download directory with filename and extension extracted from the video'{URL}'
-> URL of the video or playlist--extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --format 'bestaudio'
to extract only the audio information and store as mp3
file--format 'bestvideo+bestaudio'
to download the video with best quality of audio and video--recode-video mp4
option to convert the downloaded file as mp4
format--batch-file batchlist.txt
to capture the list of URLs in a separate lines in a text file and download them in batch--write-sub
to download the subtitle information along with the video--proxy 'http[s]://[user:password@]proxyhost[:port]'
to download a geo restricted videomkv
or webm
file to mp4