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Videos with only dots cause an FFMPEG-related abort #9970
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Addendum: I did try to look for this, and I didn't see it anywhere else. But I could have missed it as well. |
Reproducible with the somewhat shorter
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FYI, I did check the "read the guidelines for opening an issue" when I first posted this, but it seems to have unchecked itself and I can't recheck it. |
The creator of this video has given it the title
Then yt-dlp can't tell ffmpeg what sort of thing Specifying ffmpeg as downloader with no embedding exhibits the weird filenames but without the crash and can be compared with upstream. yt-dl successfully makes a file To avoid this (pathological) case, include the ID (as in the default) or just a fixed non-dot character between the title and the .ext in the output template. |
Define "pathological" in this context, please. |
Being the single title that causes this issue by having an initial |
It's not the only video I regularly archive like this, either. |
It would be helpful to identify any other problem videos. |
There's another one on the same channel, actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OdyIXzF6Y |
OK, that one has the title |
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Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood
If a video is only named as a single dot (or multiple) it will give a error when it attempts to merge the files with FFMPEG.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>
)'verbose': True
toYoutubeDL
params instead[debug] Command-line config
) and insert it belowComplete Verbose Output
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