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The purpose of my issue is:
Description of my issue, suggested solution and other information
Video won't download if the resulting output filename would be bad. I know that the issue isn't the symbol characters as I've downloaded plenty of other videos with such characters, so I'm assuming that the filename simply resulted too long. The end of the filename "Ch...-1101894562849517568.mp4" with the "..." is why I believe that this is the case. Simply adding "--restrict-filenames" did not fix the issue (2nd -v output supplied). I also supplied (with the symbol characters to prove that that isn't the issue) that the video does indeed download if simply renaming the output file. Not sure if this is highly dependent on the directory that the output file and/or temporary files are saved, but if the filenames could simply be shortened wherever they're having the issue, that might be the fix without the need of manually renaming.
Sorry for the long post - I figured it would be better with 3 different examples to help narrow down the cause of the issue.