Site Support Request: Disney Videos

[DoomTay]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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 ```):

C:\Users\Taylor>youtube-dl http://www.starwars.com/video/fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.starwars.com/video/fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.21.1
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Windows-10-10.0.14393-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-81947-gc45ba26, ffprobe N-81947-gc45ba26
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves: Downloading webpage
[generic] fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves: Extracting information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://secure.vp.disney.go.com/xd_shortform/swff/dmvr-1496/a463d8-hdmvr-1496_pswff-star-wars-identity-thieves-h264m_aac_848x480_536x64.mp4'
[download] Destination: Star Wars Fan Film _ Star Wars - Identity Thieves-a463d8-hdmvr-1496_pswff-star-wars-identity-thieves-h264m_aac_848x480_536x64.mp4
[download] 100% of 21.57MiB in 00:03

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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.starwars.com/video/fan-film-awards-2016-star-wars-identity-thieves
• Single video: http://www.starwars.com/video/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer-2
• Single video: http://www.starwars.com/video/swtor-knights-of-the-eternal-throne-betrayed-trailer
• Single video: http://www.starwars.com/video/star-wars-rebels-welcome-to-the-rebellion-wedge
• Single video: http://www.starwars.com/video/the-star-wars-show-episode-23
• Single video: http://video.disney.com/watch/star-wars-rebels-complete-season-2-now-available-53b64ee0f5d9e72ae8084c71
• Single video: http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-we-re-gonna-do-it-again-53e39bdb7569cde52fb0c0a6

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Technically, support for this kind of videos is already supported, as seen above, but the video downloaded is not of the best quality, plus metadata such as the summary are not included.

Some videos, such as http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-we-re-gonna-do-it-again-53e39bdb7569cde52fb0c0a6 appear to be Flash-only

[yan12125]

For video.disney.com URLs, I'm always redirected to http://www.disney.com.tw/ even with a United States proxy. Is it geo-restricted?

[DoomTay]

Not sure, but http://www.starwars.com, which appears to use the same "engine" for its videos, doesn't appear to be