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Generic Extractor tries to download videos with unspecified MIME/Content-Type #4149

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ChrisK2 opened this issue Nov 10, 2014 · 3 comments
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Generic Extractor tries to download videos with unspecified MIME/Content-Type #4149

ChrisK2 opened this issue Nov 10, 2014 · 3 comments

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@ChrisK2
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ChrisK2 commented Nov 10, 2014

We can't expect webservers to know all video file types out there, so they may return no Content-Type on URLs that may actually lead directly to a file. The GenericExtractor however starts to download the entire file in this case, which isn't helpful.

Test URL: http://sva.wakku.to/~chris/symlinks/temp/00016.m2ts
The server doesn't know about m2ts files and doesn't return a "Content-Type" field in the header.
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jaimeMF commented Nov 12, 2014

How would you suggest detecting the file type?

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ChrisK2 commented Nov 12, 2014

As soon as you have 1KB or so of data downloaded, check if it contains a <html> tag, if not, it's probably nothing that you can extract something from (since its most likely a direct media file).

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phihag commented Nov 26, 2014

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.11.26 and newer. Refer to our FAQ if you need help updating.

@phihag phihag closed this as completed in 4e262a8 Nov 26, 2014
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