Please add generic support for all MTV-based websites

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.spiketv.it/hotel-da-incubo/video/episodio-12-18/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.01.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] episodio-12-18: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] episodio-12-18: Downloading webpage
[generic] episodio-12-18: Extracting information
[generic] mgid:arc:video:spiketv.it:89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] mgid:arc:video:spiketv.it:89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d: Downloading webpage
WARNING: URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://mediamtvnserv-a.akamaihd.net/fb/mgid:arc:video:spiketv.it:89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d.swf'
[download] Destination: mgid -arc -video -spiketv.it -89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d-mgid -arc -video -spiketv.it -89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d.swf
[download] 100% of 1.03MiB in 00:03

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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.spiketv.it/hotel-da-incubo/video/episodio-12-18/
• Single video: http://www.vh1.it/video/jovanotti-bebe-vio-speciale/

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Several websites of various television networks (at least here in Italy) use the MTV player, which identifies videos through the so-called MGID. It can be seen in the HTML code:

<meta name="twitter:player" content="https://mediamtvnserv-a.akamaihd.net/fb/mgid:arc:video:spiketv.it:89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d.swf">
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<meta property="og:video" content="http://media.mtvnservices.com/fb/mgid:arc:video:spiketv.it:89d3c6f3-4825-447a-bdeb-7eea4914858d.swf">

However, currently these videos are not recognized because:

• mediamtvnserv-a.akamaihd.net does not match the domain of the MTV valid URL
• /fb/ does not match the path of the MTV valid URL
• trying to replace /fb/ with /embed/ with the SWF URL does not work either

Proposed solution

Ideally, any page containing a og:video using this kind of MTV player should work and the title should be extracted via og:title if available. Also, fetching the URLs is quite simple because it can be reduced to extracting the MGID and getting this XML file:

https://mediautilssvcs-a.akamaihd.net/services/MediaGenerator/mgid%3Aarc%3Avideo%3Aspiketv.it%3Aaa25d2ee-31c7-488b-947c-ee2dea7c02e6?accountOverride=intl.mtvi.com

Which contains several RTMPe URLs.