Support for Roxwel.com

[mnquintana]

The generic downloader can't extract information from videos on http://www.roxwel.com.

$ youtube-dl "http://www.roxwel.com/player/passionpittakeawalklive.html" --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.roxwel.com/player/passionpittakeawalklive.html', '--verbose']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.07.12
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[redirect] Following redirect to http://www.roxwel.com/detector/passionpittakeawalklive.html
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] passionpittakeawalklive.html: Downloading webpage
[generic] passionpittakeawalklive.html: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: http://www.roxwel.com/detector/passionpittakeawalklive.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 95, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 148, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Invalid URL: http://www.roxwel.com/detector/passionpittakeawalklive.html; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

An example URL: http://www.roxwel.com/player/passionpittakeawalklive.html

I think there are also URL parameters for video quality.

[yasoob]

Oh hi there ! I have found some info about this website. It uses rtmpe for streaming (which i hate a lot). Firstly roxwell uses javascript to detect our flash player version and then it redirects us to another url which is the actual video page url. In your above test url i got redirected to http://www.roxwel.com/player/passionpittakeawalklive.html?detect_bitrate=_300 . Here the detect_bitrate value came from the javascript which got executed on the previous page for detecting our flash version. After that we have to query http://www.roxwel.com/pl_one_time.php?player_mode=onsite&quality=300&filename=<vid name> vid_name = passionpittakeawalklive ( the player_mode, quality and filename's values were located in the html of the page ). This query will give us the rtmpe url of the video file. I wont be making an IE for it myself. Lets wait for the other devs to make an IE for it.