Usage
After you successfully installed svtplay-dl on your computer. You can dig into how to use it below.
Normal usage
In most cases you just would like to download a video. Below we go through some other scenarios as well.
Download one video
# example, download the first episode of "Vår tid är nu"
svtplay-dl https://www.svtplay.se/video/15367465/var-tid-ar-nu/var-tid-ar-nu-sasong-1-freden
Download one video with subtitles (-S)
# example, download one episode of "Hela england bakar" with subtitles
svtplay-dl -S https://www.tv4play.se/program/hela-england-bakar/2287193
Download all episodes of a series (-A)
# example, download all episodes of "Vår tid är nu"
svtplay-dl -A https://www.svtplay.se/video/15367465/var-tid-ar-nu/var-tid-ar-nu-sasong-1-freden
# example, download all episodes and subtitles
svtplay-dl -S -A https://www.svtplay.se/video/15367465/var-tid-ar-nu/var-tid-ar-nu-sasong-1-freden
Download the last five episodes of a series (-A –all-last=N)
# example, download last five episodes of "Vår tid är nu"
svtplay-dl -A --all-last=5 https://www.svtplay.se/video/15367465/var-tid-ar-nu/var-tid-ar-nu-sasong-1-freden
View available Video stream qualities (–list-quality)
# example, view available qualities
svtplay-dl --list-quality https://www.svtplay.se/video/15367465/var-tid-ar-nu/var-tid-ar-nu-sasong-1-freden
INFO: Quality Method
INFO: 3248 DASH
INFO: 3248 DASH
INFO: 2796 HLS
INFO: 2794 HLS
INFO: 2794 HDS
INFO: 2029 DASH
INFO: 2029 DASH
INFO: 1680 HLS
INFO: 1678 HLS
INFO: 1678 HDS
INFO: 1170 DASH
INFO: 1170 DASH
INFO: 988 HLS
INFO: 986 HLS
INFO: 986 HDS
...
Quality is the bit rate in bit/s. 3248 bit/s will have the Video quality of 720p resolution.
- DASH aslo known as MPEG-DASH is an international standard for video streaming.
- HLS (Apple HTTP Live Streaming) Apple’s protocol for video streaming.
- HDS (Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming) Adobe’s protocol for video streaming, will be depricated.
The default order of protocols svtplay-dl will use is: DASH, HLS, HDS. If you for instance like to use HLS instead of DASH, add the option -P hls.
Download other video quality (-q -Q -P)
You can also specify the quality you’d like to download, unless you want the best quality.
# example, download HLS 988 quality
svtplay-dl -P hls -q 988 -Q 100 https://url.to.video.page/
The -Q flag is how much -q can differ. The above example would look for HLS Video with a bitrate between 888 and 1088 and take the one closest to 988.
See all options
On the options page you can view all options available in svtplay-dl
Post processing
In some cases you probably would like to change the media container of the video and audio streams. For example from .ts and .srt to .mkv where you have the subtitles included instead of two seperate files. FFmpeg is the swiss army knife for anything with video and audio.
To merge video, audio and subtitles to one file without changing the quality (remux only)
ffmpeg -i video.file.ts -i subtitle.file.srt -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -metadata:s:s:0 language=swe -c copy outfile.mkv