nytimes downloads are unplayable

[jdrukman]

It seems like it's doing something but the downloaded file is not usable. ffprobe doesn't identify anything in it, and it won't play in VLC, IINA, QT Player, etc...

$ youtube-dl 'https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000006960506/wuhan-coronavirus-drone.html?action=click&module=video-series-bar&region=header&pgtype=Article&playlistId=video/asia-pacific'
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading video JSON
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading m3u8 information
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading m3u8 information
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 11
[download] Destination: Drone Footage Shows Wuhan Under Lockdown-100000006960506.mp4
[download] 100% of 36.58MiB in 00:04

ffprobe says

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] could not find corresponding trex (id 1)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] could not find corresponding track id 0
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] trun track id unknown, no tfhd was found
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] error reading header