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    --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac" or "mp3"; best by default
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## FAQ
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### Can you please put the -b option back?
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Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube-dl now defaults to downloading the highest available quality as reported by YouTube, which will be 1080p or 720p in some cases, so you no longer need the -b option. For some specific videos, maybe YouTube does not report them to be available in a specific high quality format you''re interested in. In that case, simply request it with the -f option and youtube-dl will try to download it.
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### I get HTTP error 402 when trying to download a video. What''s this?
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Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download too much. We''re [considering to provide a way to let you solve the CAPTCHA](https://github.com/phihag/youtube-dl/issues/8), but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a webbrowser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube-dl.
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### I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?
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Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://www.videolan.org) or [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/).
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### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
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The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file.
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## COPYRIGHT
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**youtube-dl**: Copyright © 2006-2011 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez. The program is
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released into the public domain by the copyright holder. This README file was
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