Videos with extremely long titles cannot be downloaded due to character count in filename

[br1anw]

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Affected version

0.27.4

Steps to reproduce the bug

Find a video with an extremely long character count.
Upon download request, the only way to download the video is to delete around 5 characters in the "save as" file name.

This is more of an inconvenience, but is it possible to have an option to automatically LIMIT the resulting file name in the settings so that it will automatically truncate an extremely long titled video? The youtube limit for a title seems to be about 5 characters longer than what I assume is the maximum amount of characters allowed in an Android file name- as in the maximum allowed characters in any resulting file created.

Expected behavior

For Newpipe to automatically truncate the file name to be generated in the android file system of those videos with such long titles.

Actual behavior

The file would refuse to be downloaded. Error in NewPipe. I ANSWERED the problem and solution itself. Please consider truncating these filenames maybe as a new setting to automatically truncate to maximum allowed character limit so the user does not need to manually delete 5 to 10 characters to allow the file to be downloaded. This is a convenience worth having.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

None

Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 12

Affected device model

Google Pixel 3

Additional information

None

[ShareASmile]

Can you try settings > download > allowed characters in file names > letters and digits

[br1anw]

Nope. Tried toggling both. The characters are standard, with letters and spaces only. The video poster just made extremely long description. They are chinese letters but it should not affect the reason that it is just too long.

I understand by code design perhaps such an option to auto truncate and delete a few letters may not be consistent but there are many files on youtube with such a maximized number of characters utilized to max out the search value rather than putting all that inside the detailed description of the video.

I tried both none and a dash for replacement character and toggled the special character off and on to no avail. Why not have newpipe detect that it is too long to support saving file in android and omitting 5 characters at the end of the file?

[ShareASmile]

Ok, I have triaged the issue to be a bug in downloading mechanism.