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What happens if a gateway adds its URL to the global `gateways` and crashes without removing it (say, power loss)? Should there a clean-up system and/or some way to separate...

If you expect that the file you are downloading should replace an existing file or file group, you have to say so (see below for how), or manually delete or...

Exactly: there are so many features in the file naming code, even more so with _yt-dlp_, that changing anything has the danger of unwanted feature interaction: in fact this has...

It's not so much that `--no-continue` forces overwrites; rather the desirable default behaviour where an incomplete download is restarted from the point of failure (say, when 2.4 of 2.5GB had...

See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32722#issuecomment-1950045012 for current status.

Back-port needed, once https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9784 is resolved.

Also, check and resolve the failing test output (eg Py3.9 Core): ``` ====================================================================== FAIL: test_no_duplicates (test.test_all_urls.TestAllURLsMatching) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/runner/work/youtube-dl/youtube-dl/test/test_all_urls.py", line 83, in test_no_duplicates self.assertTrue(ie.suitable(url), '%s...

Some security snafu has broken the web again, so the CI tests are failing (https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/866). I'll see if the recommended hack works for the moment... YES!

Presumably the merge process is applying the extension even though it wasn't specified in the output template. Actually, as the first log shows, yt-dlp is forcing the `{format_id}.webm` extension to...

[This old upstream issue](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/6506), with its relatives, is somewhat similar: user who specified a fixed `--output` value (in particular, without `%(ext)s`) was surprised when the final file had a `.webm`...