filename of video downloaded using youtube-dl consists of random characters at the end of filename.name

Question

There has been a consistent problem with downloading videos from youtube using youtube-dl.

The filename has random characters at the end.

e.g, original filename of the video is Scala Monads: Declutter Your Code With Monadic Design

but the filename of video after downloading is Monads - Declutter Your Code With Monadic Design-Mw_Jnn_Y5iA.f136.mp4

here is the warning during download:

WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.

it will be really helpful if somebody could suggest a solution.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '17 at 13:17

Simple, use this in your command -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' see here

To set as your default create this folder/file .config/youtube-dl/config

Just add the option to that file on single line, info see here

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