yt-dlp/Changelog.md

Changelog

2020.01.09

• [youtube] Fix bug in automatic caption extraction
• Add post_hooks to YoutubeDL by @alexmerkel
• Batch file enumeration improvements by @glenn-slayden
• Stop immediately when reaching '--max-downloads' by @glenn-slayden
• Fix incorrect ANSI sequence for restoring console-window title by @glenn-slayden
• Kill child processes when yt-dlc is killed by @Unrud

2020.01.08

• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2020.01.08
  • Extractor stitcher (1, 2) have not been merged
• Moved changelog to seperate file

2021.01.07-1

• [Akamai] fix by @nixxo
• [Tiktok] merge youtube-dl tiktok extractor by @GreyAlien502
• [vlive] add support for playlists by @kyuyeunk
• [youtube_live_chat] make sure playerOffsetMs is positive by @siikamiika
• Ignore extra data streams in ffmpeg by @jbruchon
• Allow passing different arguments to different postprocessors using --postprocessor-args
• Deprecated --sponskrub-args. The same can now be done using --postprocessor-args "sponskrub:<args>"
• [CI] Split tests into core-test and full-test

2021.01.07

• Removed priority of av01 codec in -S since most devices don't support it yet
• Added duration_string to be used in --output
• Created First Release

2021.01.05-1

• Changed defaults:
  • Enabled --ignore
  • Disabled --video-multistreams and --audio-multistreams
  • Changed default format selection to bv*+ba/b when --audio-multistreams is disabled
  • Changed default format sort order to res,fps,codec,size,br,asr,proto,ext,has_audio,source,format_id
  • Changed webm to be more preferable than flv in format sorting
  • Changed default output template to %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s
  • Enabled --list-formats-as-table

2021.01.05

• Format Sort: Added --format-sort (-S), --format-sort-force (--S-force) - See Sorting Formats for details
• Format Selection: See Format Selection for details
  • New format selectors: best*, worst*, bestvideo*, bestaudio*, worstvideo*, worstaudio*
  • Changed video format sorting to show video only files and video+audio files together.
  • Added --video-multistreams, --no-video-multistreams, --audio-multistreams, --no-audio-multistreams
  • Added b,w,v,a as alias for best, worst, video and audio respectively
• Shortcut Options: Added --write-link, --write-url-link, --write-webloc-link, --write-desktop-link by @h-h-h-h - See [Internet Shortcut Options]README.md(#internet-shortcut-options) for details
• Sponskrub integration: Added --sponskrub, --sponskrub-cut, --sponskrub-force, --sponskrub-location, --sponskrub-args - See SponSkrub Options for details
• Added --force-download-archive (--force-write-archive) by by h-h-h-h
• Added --list-formats-as-table, --list-formats-old
• Negative Options: Makes it possible to negate boolean options by adding a no- to the switch
  • Added --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd, --no-allow-dynamic-mpd, --allow-dynamic-mpd, --youtube-include-hls-manifest, --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest, --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest, --no-download, --no-download-archive, --resize-buffer, --part, --mtime, --no-keep-fragments, --no-cookies, --no-write-annotations, --no-write-info-json, --no-write-description, --no-write-thumbnail, --youtube-include-dash-manifest, --post-overwrites, --no-keep-video, --no-embed-subs, --no-embed-thumbnail, --no-add-metadata, --no-include-ads, --no-write-sub, --no-write-auto-sub, --no-playlist-reverse, --no-restrict-filenames, --youtube-include-dash-manifest, --no-format-sort-force, --flat-videos, --no-list-formats-as-table, --no-sponskrub, --no-sponskrub-cut, --no-sponskrub-force
  • Renamed: --write-subs, --no-write-subs, --no-write-auto-subs, --write-auto-subs. Note that these can still be used without the ending "s"
• Relaxed validation for format filters so that any arbitrary field can be used
• Fix for embedding thumbnail in mp3 by @pauldubois98
• Make Twitch Video ID output from Playlist and VOD extractor same. This is only a temporary fix
• Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2020.01.03 - See blackjack4494/yt-dlc#280 for details
  • Extractors tiktok and hotstar have not been merged
• Cleaned up the fork for public use