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I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.12.02
At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
The download URL is a manifest from the website discovery.ca that requires a long param string.
Youtube-dl is unable to properly extract the format codes:
The link to the manifest is here (requires Canadian IP, may expire), also mirrored here .
My particular problem that I can't work around is that when using
-f "[bestvideo+bestaudio]", Youtube-dl tries to add the format code as a suffix to the files that will be muxed. Because the format code is a massive string with invalid filename characters, on Windows 7 the file fails to be created:--restrict-filenamedid not help in this case.