Re: [gentoo-user] yt-dlp config file different than old youtube-dl

[Arve Barsnes]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 06:27, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> The part it really doesn't like seems to be this:
>
> SyntaxError: Invalid filter specification 'ext=webm,ext=mp4'
>
> Can someone tell me what the new and improved yt-dlp wants in its conf
> file to try for mp4 first and then webm?  Nothing I tried seems to
> work.  :-(

I have never used extension filtering before, but it might not be
possible to specify a list, so then you need to make one extra format
in your syntax. This worked for me:

--format 'bv*[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bv*[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best'

Regards,
Arve