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--retries does not retry on "ERROR: content too short" #6043
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Duplicate of #809. |
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Sorry; I looked through open issues, but missed that one. Thanks. |
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Note that sometimes other formats can be downloaded (use |
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I haven't encountered any videos that permanently give that error, only videos that sometimes give that error while downloading, and then get further or finish on retry. |
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The documentation for --retries says that the default is 10. However, I sometimes get errors of the form "ERROR: content too short", and those cause youtube-dl to stop rather than retrying. (Tends to happen more on long videos.) Re-running youtube-dl completes the download, or at least gets further before stopping.
Ideally, youtube-dl should retry on that error, as many times as specified by --retries, before giving up.