[AfreecaTV] Single video is downloaded as "playlist" of segments

[msikma]

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Question

Hi everyone. I'm using youtube-dl to archive some videos from AfreecaTV. On Afreeca, videos are implemented in such a way that they're chunks of 1 hour long, and each chunk is split into small segment files.

When downloading, the smaller segments get merged into the hour-long segments correctly, but the hour-long segments are not merged into a single video as it should be. In fact, youtube-dl seems to think that single videos are "playlists" of multiple videos.

For example, downloading this 4:08:14 long video results in the following files:

My question: is there something I can do to ensure these videos are merged automatically? I wasn't able to find anything in the readme about this. I suppose it makes sense since you wouldn't normally merge a playlist into a single video, but I think in this case it's not really a "playlist" but a technical implementation detail.

Thanks for any help 🙂

[remitamine]

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[msikma]

@remitamine thanks for your response!

I guess it makes sense since normally you wouldn't want to merge a playlist of videos. I'll just report this as a bug instead in that case, since AfreecaTV should not consider a single video to be a playlist.