In youtube-dl, `-i` ignores both download and post-processing error, and
treats the download as successful even if the post-processor fails.
yt-dlp used to skip the entire video on either error and there was no
option to ignore the post-processing errors like youtube-dl does.
By splitting the option into two, now either just the download errors
(--no-abort-on-error, default on CLI) or all errors (--ignore-errors)
can be ignored as per the users' needs
Closes#893
* fallback player url extraction when it fails to be extracted from the webpage
* don't download js player unnecessarily for clients that don't require it
* try to extract js player url from any additional client configs
* ability to skip the js player usage/download using `player_skip=js`
* ability to skip the initial webpage download using `player_skip=webpage`
known issue:
* authentication for multi-channel accounts and multi-account cookies may not work correctly if the webpage or client configs are skipped
* formats from the web client requiring signature decryption will be skipped if player js extraction is skipped
Authored by: coletdjnz
SponsorBlock options:
* The fetched sponsor sections are written to infojson
* `--sponsorblock-remove` removes specified chapters from file
* `--sponsorblock-mark` marks the specified sponsor sections as chapters
* `--sponsorblock-chapter-title` to specify sponsor chapter template
* `--sponsorblock-api` to use a different API
Related improvements:
* Split `--embed-chapters` from `--embed-metadata`
* Add `--remove-chapters` to remove arbitrary chapters
* Add `--force-keyframes-at-cuts` for more accurate cuts when removing and splitting chapters
Deprecates all `--sponskrub` options
Authored by: nihil-admirari, pukkandan
* Calling the API with `clientScreen=EMBED` allows access to most age-gated videos - discovered by @ccdffddfddfdsfedeee (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/574#issuecomment-887171136)
* Adds clients: (web/android/ios)_(embedded/agegate), mweb_embedded
* Renamed mobile_web to mweb
Closes#574
Authored by pukkandan, MinePlayersPE
* `player_client` accepts multiple clients
* default `player_client` = `android,web`
* music clients can be specifically requested
* Add IOS `player_client`
* Hide live dash since they can't be downloaded
Closes#501
Authored-by: pukkandan, colethedj
* Support direct `/player/` URL
* Treat the different versions of an episode as different formats of a single video. So `experience_id` can no longer be used as the video `id` and the `episode_id` is used instead. This means that all existing archives will break
* Extractor options `language` and `version` to pre-select them
* Compat option `seperate-video-versions` to fall back to old behavior (including using the old video IDs)
Closes#428
PNG, being a lossless format, should be a better default here compared to JPG since we won't be compressing to a lossy format and losing some of the original image data
PNG is also supported for embedding in all the formats similar to JPEG
Authored by: louie-github
* Remove struct from `embedthumbnail`
* Use bullet lists in readme where numbered list don't make sense
* Fix error introduced in 9c2b75b561 when `ie_result` is `None`
* Allow slicing lists/strings using `field.start🔚step`
* A field can also be used as offset like `field1+num+field2`
* A default value can be given using `field|default`
* Capture all format strings and set it to `None` if invalid. This prevents invalid fields from causing errors
* Treat `--sub-langs` entries as regex
* `all` can be used to refer to all the subtitles
* the language code can be prefixed with `-` to exclude it
* Deprecates `--all-subs`
Closes#253
* Renamed `--external-downloader-args` to `--downloader-args`
* Added `native` as an option for the downloader
* Use similar syntax to `--downloader-args` etc. Eg: `--downloader dash:native --downloader aria2c`
* Deprecated `--hls-prefer-native` and `--hls-prefer-ffmpeg` since the same can now be done with `--downloader "m3u8:native"` and `m3u8:ffmpeg` respectively
* Split `frag_urls` protocol into `m3u8_frag_urls` and `dash_frag_urls`
* Standardize shortening of protocol names with `downloader.shorten_protocol_name`
* `-P "subtitle,thumbnail:PATH"` is now possible. Similarly for `-o`
* `-S "fps,br" -S "res,codec"` is now interpreted as `-S res,codec,fps,br`. Previously, `-S fps,br` was ignored in this case.
