downloads video thinking it is a webpage

[holomorph]

On 2014.11.24, the following eats the CPU and OOMs my machine:

$ youtube-dl --verbose -eg 'http://ftp.nluug.nl/video/nluug/2014-11-20_nj14/zaal-2/5_Lennart_Poettering_-_Systemd.webm'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-eg', 'http://ftp.nluug.nl/video/nluug/2014-11-20_nj14/zaal-2/5_Lennart_Poettering_-_Systemd.webm']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.24
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.17.3-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.4.3, ffprobe 2.4.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.

This appears to be because youtube-dl falls back to the generic extractor, and downloads the "webpage" thinking the (200M) video is the webpage.

Of course youtube-dl isn't needed for this use case (already have the direct link), but in general I use scripts for grabbing/launching videos from pages.

Edit: I now see this has already been reported as #4149

[jaimeMF]

Closing as a duplicate of #4149.

[phihag]

This test case is actually great, since the server claims the file to be of type text/plain.

[phihag]

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.