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Some videos can start with a dash, youtube-dl interprets them as options. #6178
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I only start youtube-dl by the actual ID, not the whole URL and some videos can contain dashes at the start, you youtube-dl thinks options are starting. An example of such a video is: -wXEuP0nM_A. The easiest workaround is, to pass the long URL directly to youtube-dl, but I want to continue using the functionality to directly pass the videoID instead of the whole URL.