Please add .mkv as a native format option/remove warning that webm cannot embed thumbnail (audio file setting) for videos, and please add a "clear log" function.

[Amariithynar]

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Please add .mkv to the list of options for format, and/or remove the log/warning that webm cannot embed thumbnails and so mkv will be used instead, for video files. I want to embed thumbnails into audio files, and I want to download video files; these two things are, conceptually, separate. It shouldn't be constantly logging/warning that video files cannot embed thumbnails and then switch to mkv, when that setting is (at least labelled as such) only for audio files, and there is no option to just set it to .mkv and thus stop getting that annoying log/warning.

I also selected "other" because I would like to request a "clear log" function, so I can purge at least the current log (might be a worthwhile idea to have it archive older log files with the date they were first written and date they were archived appended to the name, so that you basically never risk overwriting), regardless of if my above request is denied or not; at least that way I can clear it out and not see row after row of that same message clogging up my log file, without having to manually delete the log.

[Amariithynar]

Returning to say: Thank you for the clear log option.