what does '--no-mtime' mean in youtube-dl and don't think youtube-dl respects that.

[shirishag75]

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[$] youtube-dl --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 - Linux-4.11.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3-3, ffprobe 3.3.3-3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

Now I downloaded the whole playlist from

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist\?list\=PLq6HRovGueR3P8irCLkc9JVKstdmBy4lx -c -f bestvideo+bestaudio

Now while ffmpeg performs and performed flawlessly, the time-stamp it gave to all the videos were from the last 3 days rather than when they were put up originally (youtube's/uploader's time-stamp) . This wasn't the case before. I'm not sure who is at fault, whether it's youtube-dl at fault or ffmpeg.

Also I'm curious about the '--no-mtime' option but as the command-line option doesn't elaborate (nor the documentation on youtube-dl homepage) it's difficult to know what that option is all about.

Looking forward to know.

[dstftw]

--help clearly states --no-mtime will disable setting modification time from Last-Modified HTTP header.

--no-mtime                       Do not use the Last-modified header to set
                                 the file modification time