Specifying output-filename in batch-file

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Feature request: Specify the output filename in batch-file

I have youtube-dl download files via the -a parameter, a text file with URLs and cron to later watch them via Plex. Works beautifully. But for TV-Episodes, i'd like to already specify the output-filename in the batch file, because Plex has rather strict requirements for filenames (e.g. SeriesNames01e01.mp4).

My suggestion is, that we could just start lines in the batch-file with regular youtube-dl arguments. So specifying an output-filename and url in a batch file might look like this:

-o "Watchit s01e01.mp4" http://myurl.example.com/my-movie-e01.mp4
-o "Watchit s01e02.mp4" http://myurl.example.com/my-movie-e02.mp4
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Thanks for a great tool!
Stefan

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Batch file is not supposed to carry configuration. Output template supports substitutions for %(season_number)s and so on.