Add support for Showtime Anytime

[jdunn0]

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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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 ```):

$ youtube-dl -v "http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3420735"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3420735']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.08.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-4.4.21-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-6700K_CPU_@_4.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 3420735: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 3420735: Downloading webpage
[generic] 3420735: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3420735
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1636, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: undefined entity: line 7, column 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2433, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3420735

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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 ("Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night") - http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3440222
• Single video ("Brad Williams: Fun Size"): http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3420735

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Showtime Anywhere is a service that lets you stream Showtime content provided that you have TV Provider Authorization and that TV Provider is providing you with Showtime.
I currently have that that and will provide the username and password for it, should a developer want to work on support for Showtime Anywhere.
The login link on Showtime Anywhere just shows the list of TV Providers available like any other site that requires TV Provider authentication so I would assume the process is the same MSO login process that other sites use.

[einstein95]

When attempting to download straight from an mpd URL, the generic extractor gives an error. URL is from https://www.showtimeanytime.com/#play/3450907, one of the free sample videos.

$ youtube-dl 'https://dash-vod.cdn1.showtimeanytime.com/dash/v2/dice101ffe_3450907_20170701_20171231_062717/tv_master.mpd' --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://dash-vod.cdn1.showtimeanytime.com/dash/v2/dice101ffe_3450907_20170701_20171231_062717/tv_master.mpd', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.23
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 - Linux-4.12.8-2-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] tv_master: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] tv_master: Downloading webpage
[generic] tv_master: Extracting information
WARNING: [generic] Unknown MIME type application/mp4 in DASH manifest
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2134, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1072, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.