Obviously, once support for vimeo will be added, the manpage can be revised to specify youtube codes vs Vimeo's.
Nicola 2010/11/30 Nicola Ferralis <feran...@gmail.com> > Hi Rogerio, > > Your suggestion makes a lot of sense. Please find a new patch for the > manfile. The explanation of the codes is taken from Wikipedia: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs > > Regards, > Nicola > > 2010/11/30 Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> > > Hi, Nicola. >> >> On Nov 30 2010, Nicola Ferralis wrote: >> > Description: Add explanation in help menu about movie format code >> > Author: Nicola Ferralis <feran...@hotmail.com> >> > Debian-bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605311 >> >> (...) >> >> > - action='store', dest='format', >> metavar='FORMAT', help='video format code') >> > + action='store', dest='format', >> metavar='FORMAT', help='video format code: WebM (480p: 43 - 720p: 45) - >> Mobile 360p: 18 - H264 (720p: 22 - 1080p: 37)') >> >> I am not willing to apply a patch to the script itself, but I will >> *gladly* >> accept patches to the manpage, with more detailed descriptions of the >> meaning of what the video formats may mean. >> >> There are some reasons for that: >> >> * The source code is more volatile than the documentation. >> >> * The meaning of the video formats vary from site to site. >> >> For instance, I usually grab videos from video.google.com and the >> meaning >> of the format there is not the same as for youtube. I am also >> implementing >> upstream the ability to grab videos from vimeo.com and it seems that, >> there, >> we only have SD and HD videos. >> >> * The manpage can hold a detailed description of the details above, while >> having them in the source code is not the right place. >> >> So, if you send me a patch to the manpage, I am willing to upload a new >> revision of the package. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA >> http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de >> DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br >> > >
