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Not seen for me with yt-dlp 2023.06.22 (but SOCS issue), nor with yt-dl master WIP with SOCS fix, using `--test`.

OP's server environment seems to have some filter that expects initial `[...]` in log output to contain a date or otherwise prepends one: maybe [this](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/airflow/utils/log/logging_mixin.py_)? Also, for Python 3.9 and...

Regarding case 1 [above](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8816#issuecomment-1866742916), the `write_string()` code is looking for any `Object.mode`, not just `FileIO.mode`, so the expected semantics might not apply. Eg, a custom subclass of `TextIOBase` might be...

Since you can't set an attribute on the system's `sys.stderr`, you could try wrapping it in an object of a custom class (which has an empty `mode` attribute instead of...

A more robust `write_string()` would be good and could work around this and similar issues; but, based on the earlier discussion, isn't this actually a bug that should be reported...

With or without `--geo-bypass-country AT`, https://tvthek.orf.at/topic/Politik/13869653/ZIB-2/14103221/Schallenberg-zu-Rettungsbemuehungen/14985822 redirects to the site's home page from the UK. What happens if you run the test with `--print-traffic`? Does it now show redirecting to...

This would be fixed with a test patch to the yt-dl extractor that I made for the linked issue (not the posted patch), but the yt-dlp extractor is a bit...

How does the metadata for the individual videos compare with that for the playlist itself?

Review the [logger example](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#user-content-adding-logger-and-progress-hook) in the documentation.

A backward compatibility argument is always strong (maybe less so here since _yt-dlp_ offers finer control of IEs to be used) but I wonder who all these users are that...