added --srt-lang; updated README; extended the -g FAQ

[youtube-dl.git] / README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 
 ## OPTIONS
     -h, --help               print this help text and exit
-    -v, --version            print program version and exit
+    --version                print program version and exit
     -U, --update             update this program to latest version
     -i, --ignore-errors      continue on download errors
     -r, --rate-limit LIMIT   download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
@@ -66,12 +66,19 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     --get-format             simulate, quiet but print output format
     --no-progress            do not print progress bar
     --console-title          display progress in console titlebar
+    -v, --verbose            print various debugging information
 
 ### Video Format Options:
     -f, --format FORMAT      video format code
     --all-formats            download all available video formats
+    --prefer-free-formats    prefer free video formats unless a specific one is
+                             requested
     --max-quality FORMAT     highest quality format to download
     -F, --list-formats       list all available formats (currently youtube only)
+    --write-srt              write video closed captions to a .srt file
+                             (currently youtube only)
+    --srt-lang LANG          language of the closed captions to download
+                             (optional) use IETF language tags like 'en'
 
 ### Authentication Options:
     -u, --username USERNAME  account username
@@ -81,7 +88,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 ### Post-processing Options:
     --extract-audio          convert video files to audio-only files (requires
                              ffmpeg and ffprobe)
-    --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default
+    --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
+                             best by default
     --audio-quality QUALITY  ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default
     -k, --keep-video         keeps the video file on disk after the post-
                              processing; the video is erased by default
@@ -102,7 +110,7 @@ Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://w
 
 ### The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore
 
-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.
+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. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
 
 ### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info