[tudou] possible bug in playlist support

[kotofond]

Hi,

When I want to download only the first video from a playlist I use --playlist-end 1 parameter but it doesn't work properly with tudou videos. Youtube-dl does download only the first video but prior to that it fetches metadata for all videos:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>youtube-dl --verbose --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 1 http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ArQIeOFHpSE/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--playlist-start', '1', '--playlist-end', '1', 'http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ArQIeOFHpSE/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.14
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-10-10.0.10586-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-78358-g674cc26, ffprobe N-78358-g674cc26
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[tudou] ArQIeOFHpSE: Downloading JSON metadata
[tudou] ArQIeOFHpSE: found 69 parts
[tudou] 325233523: Opening the info XML page
[tudou] 325233524: Opening the info XML page
[tudou] 325233525: Opening the info XML page
[tudou] 325233526: Opening the info XML page
[tudou] 325233527: Opening the info XML page
...
...
[69 requests which is quite a bit]

Could you fix that please if this is a bug?

Thanks

[yan12125]

This will be fixed in the next version. By the way, you can use --playlist-item in this case:

youtube-dl --verbose --playlist-item 1 http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ArQIeOFHpSE/

[kotofond]

Thanks a lot!