Restart download on error

[tpimh]

I usually pipe youtube-dl output to mplayer like this: ./youtube-dl -q -o- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... | mplayer - and sometimes I get this error:

ERROR: unable to download video data: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

After this the download it aborted and I only can continue from the beginning.
It would be great if youtube-dl on fail would try to restart download from the position where it failed before exiting with error message.

[jaimeMF]

I don't know how easy would be to implement what you are asking for. But you can workaround it by using something like mplayer $(youtube-dl --get-url VIDEO_URL) (you may need to build mplayer with https support, could be hard) or switching to mpv, which is a fork of mplayer that (among other changes) can use youtube-dl to directly play YouTube videos.

[tpimh]

Switched to mpv, it is awesome!