Please support billboard videos

[ksy5662]

http://www.billboard.com/videos

Many Thanks in advance!!!
You guys are cool!!

[yasoob]

They use BrightCove.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:45 AM, So-Young Kim notifications@github.comwrote:

http://www.billboard.com/videos

Many Thanks in advance!!!
You guys are cool!!

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/1960
.

[jaimeMF]

As @yasoob has said, they use Brightcove and our generic extractor seems to extract them fine:

youtube-dl 'http://www.billboard.com/video/bonnaroo-headliners-ifire-466943?auto=true'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--keep-video', '--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail', '--verbose']
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.billboard.com/video/bonnaroo-headliners-i-arcade-fire-466943?auto=true']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Git HEAD: 9ee859b
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-13.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] bonnaroo-headliners-i-arcade-fire-466943?auto=true: Downloading webpage
[generic] bonnaroo-headliners-i-arcade-fire-466943?auto=true: Extracting information
[generic] Brightcove video detected.
[Brightcove] 987954933001: Downloading webpage
[Brightcove] 987954933001: Extracting information
[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: Bonnaroo Headliners I Arcade Fire-987954933001.info.json
[Brightcove] 987954933001: Downloading thumbnail ...
[Brightcove] 987954933001: Writing thumbnail to: Bonnaroo Headliners I Arcade Fire-987954933001.jpg
[download] Destination: Bonnaroo Headliners I Arcade Fire-987954933001.mp4
[download]   3.1% of 28.77MiB at 376.87KiB/s ETA 01:15

youtube-dl 'http://www.billboard.com/video/lollapalooza-2010-arcade-fire-live-466808?auto=true'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--keep-video', '--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail', '--verbose']
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.billboard.com/video/lollapalooza-2010-arcade-fire-live-466808?auto=true']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.11.2
[debug] Git HEAD: 9ee859b
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-13.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] lollapalooza-2010-arcade-fire-live-466808?auto=true: Downloading webpage
[generic] lollapalooza-2010-arcade-fire-live-466808?auto=true: Extracting information
[generic] Brightcove video detected.
[Brightcove] 488229444001: Downloading webpage
[Brightcove] 488229444001: Extracting information
[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: Lollapalooza 2010 - Arcade Fire LIVE!-488229444001.info.json
[Brightcove] 488229444001: Downloading thumbnail ...
[Brightcove] 488229444001: Writing thumbnail to: Lollapalooza 2010 - Arcade Fire LIVE!-488229444001.jpg
[download] Destination: Lollapalooza 2010 - Arcade Fire LIVE!-488229444001.flv
[download]  30.2% of 9.36MiB at 635.38KiB/s ETA 00:10

Unless you have a video that fails or some other reason, I don't think we need to have an specific extractor.