[WDR] keeps collecting video ids in loop until it reaches max recursion

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youtube-dl --verbose "http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/wunderschoen/sendungen/wohnmobil-krakau-100.html"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/wunderschoen/sendungen/wohnmobil-krakau-100.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[WDR] sendungen/wohnmobil-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: sendungen/wohnmobil-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist sendungen/wohnmobil-krakau-100: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10
[WDR] wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100
[WDR] playlist wunderschoen/video-mit-dem-wohnmobil-nach-krakau-100: Collected 10 video ids (downloading 10 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 10

(keeps repeating untill max recursion depth is reached)

  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 795, in extract_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 991, in process_ie_result
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 856, in process_ie_result
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/wdr.py", line 202, in _real_extract
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 635, in _download_webpage
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2190, in urlopen
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 930, in http_open
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1194, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1053, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1093, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1049, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 893, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 855, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 832, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 557, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/encodings/idna.py", line 149, in encode
    if errors != 'strict':
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp
...
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Complete and utter python noob here. All I can say is, that the video pages contain a video player as well as a playlist, where it should play the video. Can someone please look into this?