From fe53ebe5b66a03c664708a4d6fd87b8c13a1bc7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:08:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [fd/dash] Re-extract if using --load-info-json with
 --live-from-start (#13922)

Closes #13906
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py b/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py
index afc79b6caf..bf8652d8b0 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 from . import get_suitable_downloader
 from .fragment import FragmentFD
-from ..utils import update_url_query, urljoin
+from ..utils import ReExtractInfo, update_url_query, urljoin
 
 
 class DashSegmentsFD(FragmentFD):
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ def real_download(self, filename, info_dict):
         requested_formats = [{**info_dict, **fmt} for fmt in info_dict.get('requested_formats', [])]
         args = []
         for fmt in requested_formats or [info_dict]:
+            # Re-extract if --load-info-json is used and 'fragments' was originally a generator
+            # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13906
+            if isinstance(fmt['fragments'], str):
+                raise ReExtractInfo('the stream needs to be re-extracted', expected=True)
+
             try:
                 fragment_count = 1 if self.params.get('test') else len(fmt['fragments'])
             except TypeError: