AETV && Provider Logins

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.aetv.com/shows/intervention/season-15/episode-18 --cookies cookies.txt
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.aetv.com/shows/intervention/season-15/episode-18', u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.04.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.12+ - Linux-4.5.0-2-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.2-1, ffprobe 3.1.2-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[aenetworks] intervention/season-15/episode-18: Downloading webpage
[aenetworks] 743234115902: Downloading JSON metadata
[aenetworks] 743234115902: Downloading SMIL data
ERROR: This content requires a valid, unexpired auth token.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2016.9.4.1-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2016.9.4.1-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2016.9.4.1-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/extractor/aenetworks.py", line 121, in _real_extract
    formats, subtitles = self._extract_theplatform_smil(media_url, video_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2016.9.4.1-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py", line 40, in _extract_theplatform_smil
    raise ExtractorError(error_element.attrib['abstract'], expected=True)
ExtractorError: This content requires a valid, unexpired auth token.
<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

AETV works unless it's a video that requires provider login. I've included DirecTV credentials into the .netrc file but it doesn't seem to help.

$ cat ~/.netrc
machine DTV
  login <email>
  password <password>

[remitamine]

you didn't specify to load credentials from netrc file:

-n, --netrc                      Use .netrc authentication data

[OverlordQ]

I'm an idiot, that worked. On my windows box when I ran it w/o a netrc file it complained of it not existing so I just assumed it was used as needed.