[rtp] player_config regex

[edgarcosta]

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Issue

RTP change the way it setups the player, and youtube-dl fails to find the JSON to parse.

youtube-dl.exe -v http://www.rtp.pt/play/p3023/telejornal
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.rtp.pt/play/p3023/telejornal']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.23
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[RTP] telejornal: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player config; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp27__tkx0\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp27__tkx0\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 438, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp27__tkx0\build\youtube_dl\extractor\rtp.py", line 40, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp27__tkx0\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 794, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player config; 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.

[Tony-il-Capo]

Hi
I have a similar problem with "RTP(Play)"

youtube-dl -F https://www.rtp.pt/play/p4243/mundo-sem-muros
[RTP] mundo-sem-muros: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract player config; 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.
root@LEDE:~# youtube-dl -e -v https://www.rtp.pt/play/p4243/mundo-sem-muros
[debug] System config: [u'--proxy', u'192.168.2.1:8118', u'--external-downloader', u'/usr/bin/aria2c', u'--external-downloader-args', u'--conf-path=/root/.aria2/aria2.conf', u'-f', u'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best', u'-o', u'/youtube-dl/%(title)s_(%(upload_date)s).%(ext)s', u'--fixup', u'never']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-e', u'-v', u'https://www.rtp.pt/play/p4243/mundo-sem-muros']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.14 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.50-mips-with-glibc2.0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'192.168.2.1:8118', u'https': u'192.168.2.1:8118'}
ERROR: Unable to extract player config; 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/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/rtp.py", line 40, in _real_extract
    r'(?s)RTPPLAY\.player\.newPlayer\(\s*(\{.*?\})\s*\)', webpage, 'player config')
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 883, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract player config; 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.

Works if i extract media url manually ((browser > inspect element > Network > Media))
I got a link like this https://streaming-ondemand.rtp.pt/nas2.share/h264/512x384/p4243/p4243_1_201805252254265946.mp4Frag1Num0.ts just remove after ".mp4" and you got the link to the video https://streaming-ondemand.rtp.pt/nas2.share/h264/512x384/p4243/p4243_1_201805252254265946.mp4