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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-11-27 16:29:29 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-11-27 16:29:29 -0400 |
| commit | 938c89ec2a3b28c577dffd18a301915a609d6cae (patch) | |
| tree | 4fdf622ceb66a9d0e54ad5854fa35d03ab194de6 /doc/todo | |
| parent | 65b04afadab82a231f0e31565eb440a31a21a771 (diff) | |
update; filed youtube-dl bug
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/switch_from_quvi_to_youtube-dl.mdwn | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/switch_from_quvi_to_youtube-dl.mdwn b/doc/todo/switch_from_quvi_to_youtube-dl.mdwn index 7737d6bb0..cfdd8a8a6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/switch_from_quvi_to_youtube-dl.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/switch_from_quvi_to_youtube-dl.mdwn @@ -35,11 +35,6 @@ Another gotcha is that youtube-dl's -o option does not fully determine the filename it downloads to. Sometims it will tack on an additional extension (seen with youtube videos where it added a ".mkv"). And --get-filename does not report the actual filename when that happens. -Only way I can find to avoid this wart is output to stdout with "-o -", -but that would prevent resuming. Seems it would have to be run in a temp -dir and the file moved out to the git-annex location when done, which would -prevent stuff that operates on incomplete downloads from working. - -If the download is run in a temp directory anyway, could use -o to -make the filenames start with the playlist number, and support downloading -playlists, with the playlist item number encoded in the recorded url. +This seems to be due to format merging by ffmpeg; with -f best, it does +not merge and so does not do that. +<https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14864> |