[nick.com] Force HLS like CC.com

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$ youtube-dl -v  http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-83034-gf48b6b8, ffprobe N-83034-gf48b6b8
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[nick.com] the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html: Downloading webpage
[nick.com] 9859a898-5d33-11e5-8ff7-0026b9414f30: Downloading info
[nick.com] e9eff1f2-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Extracting information
[nick.com] e9eff1f2-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Downloading video urls
[nick.com] e9eea158-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Extracting information
[nick.com] e9eea158-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Downloading video urls
[nick.com] e9ed5dc0-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Extracting information
[nick.com] e9ed5dc0-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Downloading video urls
[nick.com] e9ebf5c0-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Extracting information
[nick.com] e9ebf5c0-0be4-11e6-8a89-0026b9414f30: Downloading video urls
[download] Downloading playlist: The Loud House: "Left in the Dark/Get the Message"
[nick.com] playlist The Loud House: "Left in the Dark/Get the Message": Collected 4 video ids (downloading 4 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 4
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://viacommtvstrmfs.fplive.net/gsp.alias/mediabus/kids/.com/2016/04/26/03/31/33/ffd3b2aae6ad42d88256eac44df40dbf/916687/abcY2EksRB_HDLDH101A1_916687_5960829_1920x1080_5128.mp4'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 353, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 61, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu7wtweqp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

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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.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html
  http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-204-full-episode.html

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Used U.S IP
http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html
does not require authentication
plays fine on browser

still not able to download videos using youtube-dl
https://cp479184-vh.akamaihd.net/i/mtvnorigin/gsp.alias/mediabus/kids/.com/2016/04/26/03/30/27/5ab56259748d479c8f42055a1c8bde68/916689/voF8P8bypN_HDLDH101A3_916689_5960829_,384x216_278,512x288_498,640x360_1028,768x432_1528,960x540_2128,1280x720_3128,1920x1080_5128,.mp4.csmil/index_6_av.m3u8

Nick.com should work when cc.com does(both use same source)
but nick.com still fails to download any video

I tried these commands
still no luck
--hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader
--hls-use-mpegts

Force HLS in nick.py
switch to m3u8/akamai from viacommtvstrmfs.fplive.net on all scripts

In 2017, all switched from fplive , update all the scripts to reflect changes

disable' import MTVServicesInfoExtractor' in nick.py
ComedyCentral now works after the recent commit ,apply the same to nick

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-204-full-episode.html

[dstftw]

This is already fixed.

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@dstftw Have you tried to download
"http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/the-loud-house-101-full-episode.html" using youtube-dl ?

It keeps fetching viacommtvstrmfs.fplive.net urls which do not exist
fails to retrieve subs too

please provide ' alternative m3u8' as default
thanks

[dstftw]

This is fixed in master. Wait for the next release or run from sources.