DASH muxing behavior inconsistent with default --keep-video behavior

[RickyRomero]

When downloading a DASH video from YouTube, the muxing behavior leaves behind the original media files after muxing – with the format codes appended – next to the final muxed file from ffmpeg.

This is inconsistent with youtube-dl's help, where the following option is presented under Post-processing Options:

    -k, --keep-video           keeps the video file on disk after the post-processing; the video is erased by default

To be consistent with existing conventions, the source DASH files should be erased after muxing has successfully completed.

[EveryDirection]

To be consistent with existing conventions, the source DASH files should be erased after muxing has successfully completed.

Agreed, and not only would it be more consistent with the documentation, but eliminating those source files is probably more convenient to most users.

[Elite]

When muxing 99% of the times a user would like to delete the source files as neither they are useful as separate audio and video steams nor majority of the media-players are able to playback the DASH formats.

I would also vote for the ability to delete the source files after successful conversion.

[rupertbaxter2]

I just created a pull request that solves this issue (pull request: #3307)

[weedy]

By deleting the source files you guys broke resuming a playlist download.

[jaimeMF]

It has been working for a while, so I'm closing the issue.

@weedy open a new issue for that.

[jaimeMF]

@weedy videos that have already been downloaded will be detected in the next version.