hls download ?

[SheepDomination]

Hi, does youtube download support hls files ? And if so how can I download an hls file from a streaming site (nbs,cbs etc) ?
For example, there is a hls-841 mp4 file; how can I download this file using youtubedl and possible rtmpdump ?

[dstftw]

By passing -f hls-841. rtmpdump has nothing to do with HLS.

[SheepDomination]

@dstftw I get an error, that ffmpeg or avconv was not detected, I typically used ffmpeg manually; how do I set youtubedl to get the mp4 file by means of the flag -f hls-841 ?

[Hrxn]

You need to have ffmpeg somewhere in your PATH, so that youtube-dl can find it.

[SheepDomination]

I placed FFMPEG the path with the variable name as ffmpeg and the variable value is set to the path to which ffmpeg is located. Although the same error occurs ?

[Hrxn]

Variable name? The name of the environment variable that is collectively called PATH is well, PATH. An other name does not work.

If you run youtube-dl with the verbose-flag set (youtube-dl -v) you should see something like this:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--format', '(bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080]/bestvideo[fps>30]/bestvideo[height>720])+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio)/best', '--output', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--restrict-filenames', '--netrc']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.18
[debug] Python version 3.7.0 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.
PS E:\>

And this line indicates that ffmpeg was found:
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2

What is your output here?

[SheepDomination]

My output is the following; [debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.4.

[Hrxn]

Then you have rtmpdump somewhere in your PATH, but not ffmpeg. You can put the ffmpeg binaries into the same place, for example.

[SheepDomination]

When using a proxy to get a stream, I get this error repeatedly ?
[httpproxy @ 0000000002653aa0] Stream ends prematurely at 1031501, should be 18446744073709551615 [tls @ 00000000025dc280] Unable to read from socket [httpproxy @ 0000000002653aa0] Stream ends prematurely at 1031501, should be 18446744073709551615 [tls @ 00000000025dc280] Unable to read from socket [httpproxy @ 0000000002653aa0] Stream ends prematurely at 1323944, should be 18446744073709551615 [tls @ 00000000025dc280] Unable to read from socket

[Hrxn]

How is a proxy issue related to this issue here (HLS Download)?