Using Post-Processing options

[aerodb]

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Question

I am seeking guidance or documentation on using the post-processing options. Specifically the following...
--embed-subs
--embed-thumbnail
--add-metadata

[october262]

see here - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl?tab=readme-ov-file#post-processing-options

[dirkf]

After reading the manual (again?) you may wish to pose some more specific questions.

[dirkf]

@aerodb ?

[aerodb]

Sorry for the delay. I wanted to thoroughly read what you shared. I did already find the commands. However my issue is that I cant seem to get the syntax to work properly. When I enter the commands, they error every time. I think I am just not entering them properly. does it follow the same syntax as the other commands? ex. %(upload_date)s ... "%(" before the command and ")s" afterwards. Also, I am unsure where these arguments are placed, maybe within the file output field?

[dirkf]

If you can give us an/several example(s) of what you want to achieve and (if you've got that far) the command you typed, and whatever diagnostics were shown, someone will almost certainly be able to help.

The %(param_name)s syntax is just used in the output template (-o .../--output-template ...).

Make sure to paste the results as text; use the verbose option -v to log the details of the command and your environment; avoid some well-known problems by installing the nightly build (see #30839, as always).