Site Support Request for AlfaTV (www.permanto.fi)

[Jiriss]

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I would like youtube-dl support for www.permanto.fi videos, owner by finnish TV channel AlfaTV, http://alfatv.fi All necessary information has listed below.

$ youtube-dl --version

2017.12.31

$ youtube-dl -v "http://www.permanto.fi/web/alfatv/player/vod?assetId=8299439"

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v' u'http://www.permanto.fi/web/alfatv/player/vod?assetId=8299439']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.31
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 - Linux-4.9.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.9-1, ffprobe 3.2.9-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[generic] vod?assetId=8299439: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] vod?assetId=8299439: Downloading webpage
[generic] vod?assetId=8299439: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.permanto.fi/web/alfatv/player/vod?assetId=8299439
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2176, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 994, column 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 438, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3086, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.permanto.fi/web/alfatv/player/vod?assetId=8299439