support for nfb.ca National Film Board of Canada

[robmint]

~ >youtube-dl --verbose http://www.nfb.ca/film/qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.nfb.ca/film/qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.2 - Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny: Downloading webpage
[generic] qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.nfb.ca/film/qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 475, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 138, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 324, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.nfb.ca/film/qallunaat_why_white_people_are_funny; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

[MinchinWeb]

+1

> youtube-dl https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/

[generic] : Requesting header
[generic] : Downloading webpage
[generic] : Extracting information

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1252', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp437', pref: 'cp1252'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 158, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 380, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. We've added support in youtube-dl 2014.02.06.2. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.

[MinchinWeb]

Thanks! At first I got this error:

ERROR: RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run

But installing rtmpdump (from http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ ) and adding it to my %PATH% fixed that.

Thanks again!