fullmatchesandshows.com (playwire) no longer working: ".m3u8: Protocol not found"

[dzg]

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

Previously I was able to use the playwire share links from fullmatchesandshows.com in the form:
youtube-dl config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json

But now they no longer work. I get

https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8: Protocol not found
ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1

I tried brew reinstall ffmpeg --with-openssl but that did not help.

[yan12125]

Post the output of:

youtube-dl -v http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json

[dzg]

$ youtube-dl -v http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--recode-video', u'mp4']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4, ffmpeg 3.1.1, ffprobe 3.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading JSON metadata
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading f4m manifest
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8'
[download] Destination: FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4
[debug] avconv command line: avconv -y -headers 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
' -i https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8 -c copy -f mp4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc 'file:FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4.part'
avconv version 11.4, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
  built on Mar  1 2016 12:20:19 with Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)
https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8: Protocol not found


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 422, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 412, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1775, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 693, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 739, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1421, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1683, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1625, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 350, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py", line 43, in real_download
    self.get_basename(), retval))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 161, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 556, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 518, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

[yan12125]

youtube-dl finds avconv instead of ffmpeg. Could you try again with --prefer-ffmpeg? For example:

youtube-dl -v --prefer-ffmpeg http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json

[dzg]

That seems to be working ... but with lots of Unable to parse errors, and it seems very slow ... is that normal?
Thank you!

$ youtube-dl -v --prefer-ffmpeg http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--recode-video', u'mp4']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'http://config.playwire.com/21772/videos/v2/5095352/zeus.json']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4, ffmpeg 3.1.1, ffprobe 3.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading JSON metadata
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading f4m manifest
[Playwire] 5095352: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8'
[download] Destination: FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -headers 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
' -i https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8 -c copy -f mp4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc 'file:FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4.part'
ffmpeg version 3.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.1.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-opencl --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-openssl --disable-lzma --enable-nonfree --enable-vda
  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
  libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
  libavresample   3.  0.  0 /  3.  0.  0
  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
[https @ 0x7f9ce0500680] Unable to parse '4373253701664373272'
[https @ 0x7f9ce070ee20] Unable to parse '3127237142909200682'
[https @ 0x7f9ce05062e0] Unable to parse '7249810112351187836'
[https @ 0x7f9ce0506880] Unable to parse '9048767392831749302'
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'https://cdn.video.playwire.com/21772/videos/5095352/video-sd.m3u8':
  Duration: 00:46:46.57, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
    Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 83 kb/s
    Stream #0:1: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 427:240], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
[mp4 @ 0x7f9ce0827e00] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
    Last message repeated 1 times
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf57.41.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 427:240], q=2-31, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, 83 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[https @ 0x7f9ce042f620] Unable to parse '7115217339692483212'
[https @ 0x7f9ce0501f80] Unable to parse '548798888908031876'itrate= 379.8kbits/s speed=19.9x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0634640] Unable to parse '2720281847165611214'trate= 485.4kbits/s speed=10.1x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce29001e0] Unable to parse '1290662471874196470'trate= 547.7kbits/s speed=7.46x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070fb00] Unable to parse '4238669604629607011'trate= 517.5kbits/s speed=7.03x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0634640] Unable to parse '2301800806007768164'trate= 490.2kbits/s speed=6.76x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070f420] Unable to parse '8027389284362979387'trate= 467.9kbits/s speed=6.59x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0461880] Unable to parse '5058909195781122766'trate= 532.5kbits/s speed=6.32x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070f820] Unable to parse '3150612397576637267'trate= 554.2kbits/s speed=5.83x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0636180] Unable to parse '8375953630023700760'trate= 550.1kbits/s speed=5.69x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce04333a0] Unable to parse '6067854529624977693'trate= 562.8kbits/s speed=5.56x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0434580] Unable to parse '4265186941523348142'trate= 573.0kbits/s speed=5.41x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce063c6e0] Unable to parse '2648076879395957787'trate= 574.5kbits/s speed=5.34x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0634f80] Unable to parse '3766686113059490622'trate= 625.0kbits/s speed=5.12x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0460780] Unable to parse '3930190647028587672'trate= 638.5kbits/s speed=5.05x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0460780] Unable to parse '4642056620765811527'trate= 650.5kbits/s speed=4.98x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0460780] Unable to parse '6823668654493996290'trate= 657.5kbits/s speed=4.93x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070f420] Unable to parse '4938844508072653320'trate= 661.2kbits/s speed= 4.9x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0635480] Unable to parse '5292408703217697893'trate= 660.7kbits/s speed=4.88x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070fcc0] Unable to parse '6712376438961712667'trate= 659.5kbits/s speed=4.87x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce042e5c0] Unable to parse '4938301050079735958'trate= 656.0kbits/s speed=4.86x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0500160] Unable to parse '5109719047639961803'trate= 662.0kbits/s speed=4.83x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce070fb40] Unable to parse '7787773069211835829'trate= 680.9kbits/s speed=4.76x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce063c6e0] Unable to parse '8499018226019899378'trate= 695.6kbits/s speed=4.71x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0432140] Unable to parse '3030644448240321339'trate= 707.3kbits/s speed=4.67x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce05011c0] Unable to parse '7674920176180411716'trate= 719.7kbits/s speed=4.63x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0501880] Unable to parse '4689519619448755494'trate= 740.5kbits/s speed=4.53x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0431ec0] Unable to parse '500296584555494021'itrate= 756.5kbits/s speed=4.48x    
[https @ 0x7f9ce0501d20] Unable to parse '4701301356363054919'trate= 768.6kbits/s speed=4.41x    
frame= 8819 fps=109 q=-1.0 size=   37585kB time=00:04:54.32 bitrate=1046.1kbits/s speed=3.65x    
...

[yan12125]

I got those warnings, too. You can hit Ctrl+C and check whether the partial file FCB vs LEI 1H ENG-5095352.mp4.part can be played or not.