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Up until now, youtube-dl has been working well with ABC-iview. All I needed to do
was find the video on the iview site and copy its URL into youtube-dl.

ABC has now changed its method of delivering videos from flash to HTML5. The videos now play within the hosting page, which does not have a URL specific to the video. I can see no way of identifying the video URL is a way that youtube-dl will recognize. I have not been able to find it in the page source.

Right-clicking on the video while it plays brings up a message "Powered by JW Player 8.2.0"

I'd be grateful for any information or suggestions that people may have about this.

[reasonableperson]

If you go to the show page and click the 'share' icon next to a particular episode, then choose 'copy link,' you can get a link to a particular episode – but it doesn't work with youtube-dl.

[aristaeus]

I was actually looking at iView a couple of days ago - I wanted to see if I could use the livestream with youtube-dl/mpv. The old Flash player worked fine, but the livestream was using the new HTML5 player for testing, and it didn't work. It seems to be using the new HTML DRM standard - Firefox is displaying a lock that I've never seen before.

I suspect it won't be easy, or even possible to get around this, but I don't know enought to comment further. If not, I'm afraid you'll have to remove it from your list of supported sites.

[ringofyre]

Maybe I don't understand the nomenclature here but even the test from the commit - e067181

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ben-and-hollys-little-kingdom/series/0/video/ZX9371A050S00

yields -

$ youtube-dl -v https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ben-and-hollys-little-kingdom/series/0/video/ZX9371A050S00
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ben-and-hollys-little-kingdom/series/0/video/ZX9371A050S00']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.16.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.4
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2, ffprobe 3.4.2, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ZX9371A050S00: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ZX9371A050S00: Downloading webpage
[generic] ZX9371A050S00: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ben-and-hollys-little-kingdom/series/0/video/ZX9371A050S00
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2308, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2542, 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 2531, 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: not well-formed (invalid token): line 11, column 46
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 500, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3263, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ben-and-hollys-little-kingdom/series/0/video/ZX9371A050S00

[dstftw]

@ringofyre you are not using the latest code from master.