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update; filed youtube-dl bug

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@ -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 filename it downloads to. Sometims it will tack on an additional extension
(seen with youtube videos where it added a ".mkv"). (seen with youtube videos where it added a ".mkv").
And --get-filename does not report the actual filename when that happens. 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 -", This seems to be due to format merging by ffmpeg; with -f best, it does
but that would prevent resuming. Seems it would have to be run in a temp not merge and so does not do that.
dir and the file moved out to the git-annex location when done, which would <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14864>
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.