Keep download file before conversion?

[Jon Davies]

On 12 September 2016 at 18:08, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:
> i have looked at the long help and do not find what I was looking for.
> Is there a way to keep the raw downloaded file before conversion?
>
> this would be the *.ts or m4a.m4a file.

there's the --raw option: this keeps the unremuxed file, but prevents
any remuxing from happening.

Note that the "conversion" is simply taking the video and audio
streams and putting them into a different, more convenient, container
format - there's no change to the video or audio stream at all.

jon