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Generic Extractor tries to download videos with unspecified MIME/Content-Type #4149
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How would you suggest detecting the file type? |
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As soon as you have 1KB or so of data downloaded, check if it contains a |
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Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.11.26 and newer. Refer to our FAQ if you need help updating. |
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We can't expect webservers to know all video file types out there, so they may return no Content-Type on URLs that may actually lead directly to a file. The GenericExtractor however starts to download the entire file in this case, which isn't helpful.
Test URL: http://sva.wakku.to/~chris/symlinks/temp/00016.m2ts
The server doesn't know about m2ts files and doesn't return a "Content-Type" field in the header.