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Unsupported URL trying to download from BBC site *.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk #16835
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The Firefox extension "Video DownloadHelper" can successfully download these, if that helps at all. |
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I'd also appreciate support for that site in youtube-dl. Video downloadhelper, might be able to download it, but does require you to install some kind of standalone application to enable the download. |
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They are using AppleHLS streams for these archive programmes; you can use your browser's
(of course, you can amend cmd arguments to your liking...) Enjoy |
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Thanks for the hint that does indeed look very promising. Also: List containing all the 267 videos/audios, if someone's interested and I didn't make any errors.EDIT: Nevermind that was probably due to the .ts file. I got better results using mkv (but that may just be my player): |
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Much thanks to those who discovered a fail-safe solution. I'm also finding that--merge-output-format mkv is working best for me (no stuttering in playback, seek working correctly). I'm not using prefer-hls and letting ffmpeg be the downloader. Unfortunately, without proper URL support, there is zero metadata available to rename the result (they're all "index-index.*"). It would take many hours, likely riddled with human error, to rename all of the files to something meaningful. Therefore, I hope my original request will still be handled. |
You are both welcome @RavenRabbit & @MobyGamer
Much obliged for your hard work
On my posted yt-dl cmd I've purposely chosen
(and 3. My SmartTV can perfectly handle .ts files ... But I did say:
so with FFmpeg you can opt for (MP4 | Matroska) containers and have the AV file properly indexed, the reason behind
... Such is life; you win some, you lose some... |
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I did some more testing with the parameters and noticed that in some cases I got a warning during the download reading I'm not sure which parameters are the best (and this results in only 4 unique files, because some combinations result in the exact same file) At the moment I'm tempted to go for the |
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While I was able to retrieve what I needed, the actual uploaded video is, disappointingly, deinterlaced to 25p in some cases, and (confusingly) to 15 fps in others. It's a case of setting the wrong settings, and sadly they likely won't pull the tapes out all over again to do it correctly. What a shame. |
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This is a site request. The BBC has released all of their computing history television programs at https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/programmes but none of the playlist pages, nor the individual videos, are able to be grabbed with youtube-dl 2018.06.25. The error for all attempts is "Unsupported URL". The website is not geolocation-restricted (site is in the UK, I'm in the USA, video plays in the browser just fine).
Sample URLs:
Main page: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/programmes
Show/playlist page for "The Silicon Factor": https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/a1293cad8666ac0cddec7bf5530c4f30
Individual show page (The Silicon Factor, "1. So What's It All about? BBC 2 Series 1 Episode 1") which plays a video perfectly in a browser: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462
An attempt at the individual show page above results in:
e:>youtube-dl -v https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.25
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89931-g42323c3e3a, ffprobe N-83280-gcba4f0e
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Extracting information
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/embed/2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 501, in extract
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3269, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/embed/2264a5e86a4aa2e8b36ed6acee9f6462
Also, not to put any pressure on anyone, but according to the BBC's "taster" program, these videos will only be available for 3 months, so getting a fix for this before September 27th 2018 would be humbly appreciated.