[cleanup] Minor fixes (See desc)

* [youtube] Fix `--youtube-skip-dash-manifest`
* [build] Use `$()` in `Makefile`. Closes #3684
* Fix bug in 385ffb467b2285e85a2a5495b90314ba1f8e0700
* Fix bug in 43d7f5a5d0c77556156a3f8caa6976d3908a1e38
* [cleanup] Remove unnecessary `utf-8` from `str.encode`/`bytes.decode`
* [utils] LazyList: Expose unnecessarily "protected" attributes
and other minor cleanup

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
index de34b8bd7..f9670429a 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -773,9 +773,9 @@ class YoutubeDL:
         assert hasattr(self, '_output_process')
         assert isinstance(message, compat_str)
         line_count = message.count('\n') + 1
-        self._output_process.stdin.write((message + '\n').encode('utf-8'))
+        self._output_process.stdin.write((message + '\n').encode())
         self._output_process.stdin.flush()
-        res = ''.join(self._output_channel.readline().decode('utf-8')
+        res = ''.join(self._output_channel.readline().decode()
                       for _ in range(line_count))
         return res[:-len('\n')]
 
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                 value = map(str, variadic(value) if '#' in flags else [value])
                 value, fmt = ' '.join(map(compat_shlex_quote, value)), str_fmt
             elif fmt[-1] == 'B':  # bytes
-                value = f'%{str_fmt}'.encode() % str(value).encode('utf-8')
+                value = f'%{str_fmt}'.encode() % str(value).encode()
                 value, fmt = value.decode('utf-8', 'ignore'), 's'
             elif fmt[-1] == 'U':  # unicode normalized
                 value, fmt = unicodedata.normalize(
@@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                 return selector_function(ctx_copy)
             return final_selector
 
-        stream = io.BytesIO(format_spec.encode('utf-8'))
+        stream = io.BytesIO(format_spec.encode())
         try:
             tokens = list(_remove_unused_ops(tokenize.tokenize(stream.readline)))
         except tokenize.TokenError:
@@ -3194,8 +3194,8 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                     downloader = downloader.__name__ if downloader else None
 
                     if info_dict.get('requested_formats') is None:  # Not necessary if doing merger
-                        live_fixup = info_dict.get('is_live') and not self.params.get('hls_use_mpegts')
-                        ffmpeg_fixup(downloader == 'HlsFD' or live_fixup,
+                        fixup_live = info_dict.get('is_live') and self.params.get('hls_use_mpegts') is None
+                        ffmpeg_fixup(downloader == 'HlsFD' or fixup_live,
                                      'Possible MPEG-TS in MP4 container or malformed AAC timestamps',
                                      FFmpegFixupM3u8PP)
                         ffmpeg_fixup(info_dict.get('is_live') and downloader == 'DashSegmentsFD',
@@ -3700,10 +3700,10 @@ class YoutubeDL:
 
         # Not implemented
         if False and self.params.get('call_home'):
-            ipaddr = self.urlopen('https://yt-dl.org/ip').read().decode('utf-8')
+            ipaddr = self.urlopen('https://yt-dl.org/ip').read().decode()
             write_debug('Public IP address: %s' % ipaddr)
             latest_version = self.urlopen(
-                'https://yt-dl.org/latest/version').read().decode('utf-8')
+                'https://yt-dl.org/latest/version').read().decode()
             if version_tuple(latest_version) > version_tuple(__version__):
                 self.report_warning(
                     'You are using an outdated version (newest version: %s)! '