title in file name doesn't match JSON title

[porjo]

I run this command:

$ youtube-dl --write-info-json -t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgI52y27O_I

results in 2 files:

John Resig - The DOM is a Mess-dgI52y27O_I.mp4.info.json
John Resig - The DOM is a Mess-dgI52y27O_I.mp4

Inside the JSON file, both 'title' and 'stitle' are set to:

"John Resig: The DOM is a Mess"

The filenames have ' -' in place of ':' - is that a bug?

(using version 2013.01.02)

[phihag]

This is intended behavior. Since : is not generally a safe character in a filename - it would break at least on all Windows systems - we have to replace it when picking a filename. In the JSON, however, we are free to include the title (in fact, that's what the metadata is for).

I'm not sure what we could change: Which behavior would you expect? Personally, I think that the filename we pick at the moment is perfectly understandable. Leaving colons in on non-Windows systems would be possible, but is bound to lead to problems, say, when someone dual-boots or downloads to a USB thumb drive, and then can't open them on a Windows system.

[phihag]

Closing for now, but feel free to leave a comment if you have a proposal on what youtube-dl should do.