#1140452 yt-dlp: doesn't always react to Ctrl-C

Package:
yt-dlp
Source:
yt-dlp
Submitter:
Vincent Lefevre
Date:
2026-06-20 19:43:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1140452#5
Date:
2026-06-20 19:07:49 UTC
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To watch a livestream, I use

  yt-dlp -o - <YouTube_URL> | vlc -

and to interrupt it, I type Ctrl-C. While Ctrl-C always kills vlc,
yt-dlp is sometimes still running. I get a message

    Last message repeated 73 times

where the above number increases, until I type Ctrl-C a second time,
which gives:

^C[ffmpeg] Interrupted by userimes
[download] 100% in 01:37:30

Here, the text "imes" after "Interrupted by user" comes from the above
"Last message repeated 73 times" message, which hasn't been cleared.
#1140452#10
Date:
2026-06-20 19:41:46 UTC
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This message comes from

  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavutil.so.60