--hls-use-mpegts not honored at RoosterTeeth

[zing269]

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[debug] System config: []
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[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', '[height=480]', '--hls-use-mpegts', 'http://www.roosterteeth.com/episode/rwby-volume-5-12lkopoklk1']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.01.14
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n3.1.2, ffprobe n3.1.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[RoosterTeeth] rwby-volume-5-12lkopoklk1: Downloading webpage
[RoosterTeeth] rwby-volume-5-12lkopoklk1: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://rtv3-video.roosterteeth.com/store/70efa812f66d64654d6ddc925f06ae4e-34e4f096/ts/34e4f096-hls_480p-store-70efa812f66d64654d6ddc925f06ae4e.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 221
[download] Destination: RWBY - Volume 5, Chapter 12 - Vault of the Spring Maiden-34970.mp4
[download] 100% of 156.73MiB in 06:56
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams "file:RWBY - Volume 5, Chapter 12 - Vault of the Spring Maiden-34970.mp4"
[ffmpeg] Fixing malformed AAC bitstream in "RWBY - Volume 5, Chapter 12 - Vault of the Spring Maiden-34970.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i "file:RWBY - Volume 5, Chapter 12 - Vault of the Spring Maiden-34970.mp4" -c copy -f mp4 "-bsf:a" aac_adtstoasc "file:RWBY - Volume 5, Chapter 12 - Vault of the Spring Maiden-34970.temp.mp4"

Downloading RWBY episodes from RoosterTeeth using the --hls-use-mpegts option results in a .mp4 file. Both mediainfo and ffprobe show that the file is MPEG-4 / isom not MPEG-TS

[s104346]

You additionally need to specify --hls-prefer-ffmpeg to tell youtube-dl to use ffmpeg/avconv instead of the native HLS downloader if you want to use --hls-use-mpegts.

[yan12125]

Thanks @s104346. That's right.

[zing269]

Adding the --hls-prefer-ffmpeg still results in a MPEG-4 / isom file, however it is one byte larger.