From 717d38f38c5c70475240ed333d7133ffba8aa605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:45:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [reddit] use '"videos": "dash"' by default (#8657)

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/8657#issuecomment-3663560902
---
 docs/configuration.rst         | 2 +-
 docs/gallery-dl.conf           | 2 +-
 gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py | 8 ++++----
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 8355c660..55defb77 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -5218,7 +5218,7 @@ Type
     * ``bool``
     * ``string``
 Default
-    ``true``
+    ``"dash"``
 Description
     Control video download behavior.
 
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index cb07d575..25eea53b 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
             "previews"    : true,
             "recursion"   : 0,
             "selftext"    : null,
-            "videos"      : true
+            "videos"      : "dash"
         },
         "redgifs":
         {
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
index ee1af7b7..cc73e474 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ class RedditExtractor(Extractor):
         previews = self.config("previews", True)
         embeds = self.config("embeds", True)
 
-        if videos := self.config("videos", True):
-            if videos == "ytdl":
-                self._extract_video = self._extract_video_ytdl
-            elif videos == "dash":
+        if videos := self.config("videos", "dash"):
+            if videos == "dash":
                 self._extract_video = self._extract_video_dash
+            elif videos == "ytdl":
+                self._extract_video = self._extract_video_ytdl
             videos = True
 
         selftext = self.config("selftext")