Site support : www.playhd.video

[arulrajnet]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2016.08.01. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
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• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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verbose log

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.playhd.video/video/59/around-venezia
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.playhd.video/video/59/around-venezia']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-31-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] around-venezia: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] around-venezia: Downloading webpage
[generic] around-venezia: Extracting information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://www.playhd.video/media/videos/hd/59.mp4'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 422, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 412, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1775, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 693, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 739, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1421, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1683, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1625, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 350, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1985, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 467, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 654, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 467, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 654, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 893, in http_response
    uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 261, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 332, in _read
    self._read_eof()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 351, in _read_eof
    isize = read32(self.fileobj)  # may exceed 2GB
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 25, in read32
    return struct.unpack("<I", input.read(4))[0]
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.playhd.video/video/61
• Single Video: http://www.playhd.video/embed.php?vid=61
• Playlist: http://www.playhd.video/videos?c=18

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Related issue: #2807 As stated in that issue comments this video is not too large and I am not using proxy.

• Login or account credentials are not needed.
• They are using referrer header

below command is working

curl -H "Referer: http://www.playhd.video/embed.php?vid=61" -H "Cookie: AVS=a4b7713d52ae7d43c60d6c6d3e85578c" -H "Range: bytes=0-"  http://www.playhd.video/media/videos/hd/61.mp4 > 61.mp4

OR

curl -H "Referer: http://www.playhd.video/embed.php?vid=61" http://www.playhd.video/media/videos/hd/61.mp4 > 61.mp4

[arulrajnet]

Solved by using --add-header in youtube-dl

youtube-dl -v http://www.playhd.video/video/59/around-venezia --add-header Referer:http://www.playhd.video/video/59/around-venezia