CNC World Live HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[johnthecracker]

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CNC World News live broadcast, should be live but I am not so sure.

On youtube website there is no live broadcat of this news channel.

Would it be possible to make youtube-dl to work with:

http://www.news.cn/2015wlds/enindex.htm

C:\>youtube-dl.exe -v -F --no-check-certificate http://www.news.cn/2015wlds/enindex.htm
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-F', '--no-check-certificate', 'http://www.news.cn/2015wlds/enindex.htm']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] enindex: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] enindex: Downloading webpage
[generic] enindex: Extracting information
[generic] enindex: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); 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.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu6zpd7mk\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 502, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpu6zpd7mk\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2166, 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

[johnthecracker]

Just found out that youtube-dl works with one variety of m3u8,

http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8

I found that url on some other forum and I don't know how it was obtained.

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/cnc-world-live-t23311.html

C:>youtube-dl.exe -v -F --no-check-certificate http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-F', '--no-check-certificate', 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] manifest: Requesting header
[generic] manifest: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for manifest:
format code extension resolution note
0 mp4 unknown

youtube-dl.exe --no-check-certificate --no-overwrites -v http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--no-check-certificate', '--no-overwrites', '-v', '
http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.23
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] manifest: Requesting header
[generic] manifest: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8'
[download] Destination: manifest-manifest.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel verbose -headers "User-Agent: M
ozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,;q=0.7
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
" -i "http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8" -c copy -f mp4 "file:manifest
-manifest.mp4.part"
ffmpeg version 3.3.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7.1.0 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --e
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[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] HLS request for url 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/
cncen/1465505/1500677777.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] Opening 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/146550
5/1500677777.ts' for reading
[h264 @ 00000000005821a0] Reinit context to 720x576, pix_fmt: yuv420p
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/manifest.m3u8':
Duration: N/A, start: 31646.530422, bitrate: N/A
Program 0
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), 1 reference frame ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B),
yuv420p(tv, bt709, left), 720x576 [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn
, 50 tbc
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (HE-AACv2) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 44100 Hz, stere
o, fltp
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:manifest-manifest.mp4.part':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf57.71.100
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), 1 reference frame ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021),
yuv420p(tv, bt709, left), 720x576 (0x0) [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 25 fps, 2
5 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (HE-AACv2) ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stere
o, fltp
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Automatically inserted bitstream filter 'aac_adtstoasc'; args=''
[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] HLS request for url 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/
cncen/1465505/1500677778.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] Opening 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/146550
5/1500677778.ts' for reading
frame= 43 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size= 139kB time=00:00:01.66 bitrate= 681.3kbits/
frame= 66 fps= 54 q=-1.0 size= 222kB time=00:00:02.58 bitrate= 701.1kbits/
frame= 202 fps=117 q=-1.0 size= 567kB time=00:00:08.02 bitrate= 578.3kbits/
[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] HLS request for url 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/
cncen/1465505/1500677779.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 000000000057a400] Opening 'http://livecdn1.news.cn/cncen/146550
5/1500677779.ts' for reading
frame= 293 fps=102 q=-1.0 size= 829kB time=00:00:11.66 bitrate= 582.1kbits/
frame= 344 fps=101 q=-1.0 size= 1001kB time=00:00:13.70 bitrate= 598.3kbits/
frame= 527 fps=134 q=-1.0 size= 1643kB time=00:00:21.02 bitrate= 640.2kbits/
s speed=5.36x