So I have youtube-dl setup and am trying to "automate" a way that I download videos. I have got it mostly setup however I need a way to be able to only select videos that have a format code starting with "en" and ignore the ones beginning with other characters. The output of the -F list is below.
format code extension resolution note
en_br-hls-1249 mp4 640x360 1249k , avc1.4d001e, mp4a.40.2
ja_br-hls-1452 mp4 640x360 1452k , avc1.4d001e, mp4a.40.2
en_br-hls-1762 mp4 854x480 1762k , avc1.4d001f, mp4a.40.2
ja_br-hls-2067 mp4 854x480 2067k , avc1.4d001f, mp4a.40.2
en_br-hls-2991 mp4 1280x720 2991k , avc1.640029, mp4a.40.2
ja_br-hls-3513 mp4 1280x720 3513k , avc1.640029, mp4a.40.2
en_br-hls-5857 mp4 1920x1080 5857k , avc1.640029, mp4a.40.2
ja_br-hls-6904 mp4 1920x1080 6904k , avc1.640029, mp4a.40.2 (best)
As you can see from the list above the "best" is currently on the format that begins with ja and sometimes it reverses so the best is listed as "en". What I want is a way for it to always select the best "en" stream and not the ja which it currently does when I feed it the "-f best" variable.
Any help would help as I'm not exactly sure how I do this, or even if there is a way in youtube-dl by default. if not then a way to make it do what I want in the site code itself could work.
Any pointers?
1 Answer
So it seems I have found out how I didn't remove this so it gives others who are having the same issue as me to find it.
So with the format selecting you are able to add filters to them, I was initially trying to use the --match-filter variable but all I needed to actually do was.
-f "best[format_id^=en]"
This basically tells youtube-dl to only use formats were the id begins with "en"
