Remove the --max-quality option

It doesn't work well with 'bestvideo' and 'bestaudio' because they are usually before the max quality.
Format filters should be used instead, they are more flexible and don't require the requested quality to exist for each video.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/test/parameters.json b/test/parameters.json
index 48b5a062e..7bf59c25f 100644
--- a/test/parameters.json
+++ b/test/parameters.json
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
     "forcetitle": false, 
     "forceurl": false, 
     "format": "best",
-    "format_limit": null, 
     "ignoreerrors": false, 
     "listformats": null, 
     "logtostderr": false, 
diff --git a/test/test_YoutubeDL.py b/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
index 820e55ec2..bb4a65ee1 100644
--- a/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
@@ -101,39 +101,6 @@ class TestFormatSelection(unittest.TestCase):
         downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
         self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'flv')
 
-    def test_format_limit(self):
-        formats = [
-            {'format_id': 'meh', 'url': 'http://example.com/meh', 'preference': 1},
-            {'format_id': 'good', 'url': 'http://example.com/good', 'preference': 2},
-            {'format_id': 'great', 'url': 'http://example.com/great', 'preference': 3},
-            {'format_id': 'excellent', 'url': 'http://example.com/exc', 'preference': 4},
-        ]
-        info_dict = _make_result(formats)
-
-        ydl = YDL()
-        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
-        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')
-
-        ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'good'})
-        assert ydl.params['format_limit'] == 'good'
-        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
-        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'good')
-
-        ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'great', 'format': 'all'})
-        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]['format_id'], 'meh')
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[1]['format_id'], 'good')
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[2]['format_id'], 'great')
-        self.assertTrue('3' in ydl.msgs[0])
-
-        ydl = YDL()
-        ydl.params['format_limit'] = 'excellent'
-        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
-        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')
-
     def test_format_selection(self):
         formats = [
             {'format_id': '35', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 1, 'url': TEST_URL},