How to select video quality from youtube-dl

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To download a video, you type the URL after the command like this.

youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pzm5BBXXX

To select the video quality, first use the -F option to list the available formats, here’s an example,

youtube-dl
-F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pzm5BBXXX

Here’s the output



















The best quality is 22 so use -f 22 instead of -F to download the mp4 video with 1280x720 resolution like this,

youtube-dl
-f 22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pzm5BBXXX


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