Not able to download / re-download vod if it has same name

MrDummyNL commented 5 months ago

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Windows GUI Application

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I have some streams that was stopped midway and restarted again. This result in two vods with exact same name. But program has one problem: it will ignore next download if it found same name and will not finish the job (it just say its finished -nothing added). Re-download vod is also problem, it will also just finish it early without generate a vod and text chat file.

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Here my possible checkpoints:

verify the video time (if it found same vod name) so it will know it has another video length.
rename the filename with (2) behind as rename.
so it will download another vod and make video file without stop it too early with finished.
option to force download vod
can give you question with [rename] or [overwrite] if it found same vod name file.

Right now i must go to other pc to download another vod. Because program just refuse to download it (again). The download itself is running but it will not finish it correctly.

ScrubN commented 5 months ago

I'm not sure I entirely understand the issue you are describing, however I am not opposed to allowing the user to choose between rename and overwrite. As a temporary solution I added {random_string} as a filename parameter some months ago, but I think its about time I implement a real solution.

superbonaci commented 4 months ago

Some streams are cut in several pieces so they are not very long. Basically they all have same title and description, but different ID and were started at different time. Some streams just do this to have each theme they are talking about in a different video, instead of having chapters.

Relying on the title to tell one stream apart from another is not reliable. Same can happen with youtube videos (same exact title):

superbonaci commented 4 months ago

Save the file as ID_Title.mp4 and not Title.mp4.

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