[README.md] Clarify unavailable sequences in output format

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@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ The `-o` option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. T
 - `format_id`: The sequence will be replaced by the format code specified by `--format`.
 - `duration`: The sequence will be replaced by the length of the video in seconds.

+Note that some of the aforementioned sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, such sequences will be replaced with `NA`.
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 The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`.

 In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the `--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title: