Blip.tv no longer works

[PinkPandaKatie]

Downloading any video from blip.tv results in a 38370 byte file which is unplayable. Running wget youtube-dl -g URL does work, however.

example:

$ ./youtube-dl http://blip.tv/adg/episode-81-animal-quest-6059945
[blip.tv] /adg/episode-81-animal-quest-6059945: Extracting information
[download] Destination: 6043128.m4v
[download] 100.0% of 37.47k at 85.19k/s ETA 00:00
$ ls -l 6043128.m4v
-rw-r--r-- 1 jspenguin jspenguin 38370 2012-02-16 14:58 6043128.m4v
$ ./youtube-dl -g http://blip.tv/adg/episode-81-animal-quest-6059945
http://blip.tv/file/get/Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v
$ wget http://blip.tv/file/get/Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v
--2012-04-02 12:08:11-- http://blip.tv/file/get/Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v
Resolving blip.tv... 74.122.174.250
Connecting to blip.tv|74.122.174.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://a66.video2.blip.tv/13330010626287/Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v?brs=559&bri=7.6 [following]
--2012-04-02 12:09:11-- http://a66.video2.blip.tv/13330010626287/Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v?brs=559&bri=7.6
Resolving a66.video2.blip.tv... 208.44.23.83, 208.44.23.73
Connecting to a66.video2.blip.tv|208.44.23.83|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 53466360 (51M) [video/mp4]
Saving to: `Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v'

2012-04-02 12:13:05 (69.9 kB/s) - `Gemini000-Episode81AnimalQuest501.m4v' saved [53466360]

[FiloSottile]

Umh... confused by the redirect?
On it.

[BrentNewland]

I've been searching on this and came across this page. Blip.tv is only allowing certain user agent strings to prevent downloading. currently iTunes/10.6.1 works

[joshtriplett]

Note that the current version of get_flash_videos currently supports Blip.tv. I'd love to have support in youtube-dl, though.