[techtalks] RTMP fails with ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code 1

[markostam]

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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 rtmp://webcast.weyond.com/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE/mp4: PRIVATE.mp4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'rtmp://webcast.weyond.com/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE/mp4: PRIVATE.mp4']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.15
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'rtmp://webcast.weyond.com/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE/mp4: PRIVATE.mp4'
[download] Destination: mp4 -PRIVATE.flv
[debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmp://webcast.weyond.com/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE/mp4: PRIVATE.mp4 -o 'mp4 -PRIVATE-mp4 -PRIVATE.flv.part' --resume --skip 1
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
[rtmpdump] (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 0
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host    : webcast.weyond.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app     : vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Hostname : webcast.weyond.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Port     : 1935
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Playpath : mp4: PRIVATE.mp4
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: tcUrl    : rtmp://webcast.weyond.com:1935/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: app      : vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: live     : no
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: timeout  : 30 sec
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe.
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Closing connection.
[rtmpdump] 0 bytes
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
[rtmpdump] (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 0
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host    : webcast.weyond.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app     : vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Hostname : webcast.weyond.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Port     : 1935
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Playpath : mp4: PRIVATE.mp4
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: tcUrl    : rtmp://webcast.weyond.com:1935/vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: app      : vod/PRIVATE/PRIVATE
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: live     : no
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: timeout  : 30 sec
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe.
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Closing connection.


ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code 1
  File "/Users/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 184, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/Users/markostamenovic/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, 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 449, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 439, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 751, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 354, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py", line 202, in real_download
    self.report_error('rtmpdump exited with code %d' % retval)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 162, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 568, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 530, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

fails on rtmp download from techtalks.tv

PRIVATE inserted into sensitive urls

[yan12125]

Please give a concrete example. http://techtalks.tv/talks/learning-topic-models-going-beyond-svd/57758/ works fine.

[yan12125]

Closing as no response for a long time