Memory error when downloading meta-information from TED youtube channel

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> can a x64 version of youtube-dl.exe be released? I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 471, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 461, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1989, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 857, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 995, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 857, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1489, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 252, in _download_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 634, in _download_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 543, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpy028tx8p\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 620, in _webpage_read_content
MemoryError

with my query:
$ ./youtube-dl.exe --get-filename -o "{ 'title': '''%(title)s ''', 'date': '''%(upload_date)s''', 'views': '''%(view_count)s''', 'duration': '''%(duration)s''', 'url': '''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%(id)s''' }," https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks/videos | tee -a 'output_get_youtube_2_ted_1_4.txt'

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--get-filename', '-o', "{ 'title': '''%(title)s ''', 'date': '''%(upload_date)s''', 'views': '''%(view_count)s''', 'duration': '''%(duration)s''', 'url': '''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%(id)s''' },", 'https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.11
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...

[dstftw]

Сonceptually it won't make any difference. What you should do is to extract playlist in parts using existing playlist options. Or extract each video separately on --flat-playlist results.