mpd & m3u8 Support and Site Support

[xdarshh]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.06.12

• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections

• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• 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)
• Question
• Other

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 ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://d2vow3x5tzuxc5.cloudfront.net/u/Assets/a1/27/4D/a1-2300370/s1-18768250/a1-2300370-s1-18768250.mpd']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.12
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.1, ffprobe 3.3.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] a1-2300370-s1-18768250: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] a1-2300370-s1-18768250: Downloading webpage
[generic] a1-2300370-s1-18768250: Extracting information
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1989, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1056, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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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://shahid.mbc.net/ar/episode/239161/الحصان-الأسود-الموسم-1-الحلقة-16.html

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I can find the m3u8 and mpd links but I have trouble in downloading them from this site shahid.mbc.net sometimes it downloads well and sometimes not.
the videos I am trying to download is free and anyone can watch it without even signing up

[dstftw]

This video is DRM protected.