Remove the --max-quality option

It doesn't work well with 'bestvideo' and 'bestaudio' because they are usually before the max quality.
Format filters should be used instead, they are more flexible and don't require the requested quality to exist for each video.
master
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz 9 years ago
parent 92995e6265
commit 9f3fa89f7c

@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
"forcetitle": false,
"forceurl": false,
"format": "best",
"format_limit": null,
"ignoreerrors": false,
"listformats": null,
"logtostderr": false,

@ -101,39 +101,6 @@ class TestFormatSelection(unittest.TestCase):
downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'flv')
def test_format_limit(self):
formats = [
{'format_id': 'meh', 'url': 'http://example.com/meh', 'preference': 1},
{'format_id': 'good', 'url': 'http://example.com/good', 'preference': 2},
{'format_id': 'great', 'url': 'http://example.com/great', 'preference': 3},
{'format_id': 'excellent', 'url': 'http://example.com/exc', 'preference': 4},
]
info_dict = _make_result(formats)
ydl = YDL()
ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')
ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'good'})
assert ydl.params['format_limit'] == 'good'
ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'good')
ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'great', 'format': 'all'})
ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]['format_id'], 'meh')
self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[1]['format_id'], 'good')
self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[2]['format_id'], 'great')
self.assertTrue('3' in ydl.msgs[0])
ydl = YDL()
ydl.params['format_limit'] = 'excellent'
ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')
def test_format_selection(self):
formats = [
{'format_id': '35', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 1, 'url': TEST_URL},

@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ from .utils import (
sanitize_path,
std_headers,
subtitles_filename,
takewhile_inclusive,
UnavailableVideoError,
url_basename,
version_tuple,
@ -135,7 +134,6 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
(or video) as a single JSON line.
simulate: Do not download the video files.
format: Video format code. See options.py for more information.
format_limit: Highest quality format to try.
outtmpl: Template for output names.
restrictfilenames: Do not allow "&" and spaces in file names
ignoreerrors: Do not stop on download errors.
@ -1068,12 +1066,6 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
full_format_info.update(format)
format['http_headers'] = self._calc_headers(full_format_info)
format_limit = self.params.get('format_limit', None)
if format_limit:
formats = list(takewhile_inclusive(
lambda f: f['format_id'] != format_limit, formats
))
# TODO Central sorting goes here
if formats[0] is not info_dict:

@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
'simulate': opts.simulate or any_getting,
'skip_download': opts.skip_download,
'format': opts.format,
'format_limit': opts.format_limit,
'listformats': opts.listformats,
'outtmpl': outtmpl,
'autonumber_size': opts.autonumber_size,

@ -331,10 +331,6 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
'--prefer-free-formats',
action='store_true', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False,
help='Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested')
video_format.add_option(
'--max-quality',
action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT',
help='Highest quality format to download')
video_format.add_option(
'-F', '--list-formats',
action='store_true', dest='listformats',

@ -1109,15 +1109,6 @@ def shell_quote(args):
return ' '.join(quoted_args)
def takewhile_inclusive(pred, seq):
""" Like itertools.takewhile, but include the latest evaluated element
(the first element so that Not pred(e)) """
for e in seq:
yield e
if not pred(e):
return
def smuggle_url(url, data):
""" Pass additional data in a URL for internal use. """

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