Broken C-SPAN IE

[ajsgithub]

The C-SPAN IE is broken. I have tried several videos that all fail similarly (including the URL in the test case in youtube_dl / extractor / cspan.py

They all fail with '[rtmpdump] ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header'

I've upgraded you yesterday's (2014-01-03) version.

On 2013-09-22 I successfully downloaded http://c-spanvideo.org/program/JonahGol, but now I get:

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-t', 'http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JonahGol']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.12.6-300.fc20.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-20-Heisenbug
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] JonahGol: Downloading webpage
[CSpan] 275720: Downloading video info
[CSpan] 275720: Extracting information
[download] Destination: After Words with Jonah Goldberg-275720.flv
[debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmp://cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org:443/bwcheck -o 'After Words with Jonah Goldberg-275720.flv.part' --playpath mp4:downloads/305/305697-1/305697-1-MP4-STD/305697-1-MP4-STD_01.mp4 --resume --skip 1
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
rtmpdump 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 0
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host : cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app : bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Hostname : cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Port : 443
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:downloads/305/305697-1/305697-1-MP4-STD/305697-1-MP4-STD_01.mp4
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org:443/bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: app : bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: live : no
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: timeout : 30 sec
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Setting buffer time to: 36000000ms
[rtmpdump] Connecting ...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, ... connected, handshaking
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandShake: Type Answer : 03
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandShake: Server Uptime : 96850052
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandShake: FMS Version : 3.0.1.1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandShake: Handshaking finished....
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: RTMP_Connect1, handshaked
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Invoking connect
[rtmpdump] INFO: Connected...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleServerBW: server BW = 2500000
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleClientBW: client BW = 2500000 2
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleCtrl, received ctrl. type: 0, len: 6
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleCtrl, Stream Begin 0
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleChangeChunkSize, received: chunk size change to 4096
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 21 bytes
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: NULL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Invoking _checkbw
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 349 bytes
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: fmsVer, STRING: FMS/3,5,7,7009>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: capabilities, NUMBER: 31.00>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: mode, NUMBER: 1.00>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: level, STRING: status>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: code, STRING: NetConnection.Connect.Success>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: description, STRING: Connection succeeded.>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: data, OBJECT>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: version, STRING: 3,5,7,7009>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: clientid, NUMBER: 1518343280.00>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: objectEncoding, NUMBER: 0.00>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: <Name: secureToken, STRING: 16d980a6a3795daafd1ea061efe768f6e01a207637e9419e736848d1c0c91e96f46ba851>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <_result>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleInvoke, received result for method call
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: sending ctrl. type: 0x0003
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Invoking createStream
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 29 bytes
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object begin)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Property: NULL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: (object end)
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <_result>
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: HandleInvoke, received result for method call
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: SendPlay, seekTime=0, stopTime=0, sending play: mp4:downloads/305/305697-1/305697-1-MP4-STD/305697-1-MP4-STD_01.mp4
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Invoking play
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: sending ctrl. type: 0x0003
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Invoking deleteStream
[rtmpdump] ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Closing connection.
[rtmpdump] 0 bytes
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
rtmpdump 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 0
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host : cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app : bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Hostname : cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Port : 443
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:downloads/305/305697-1/305697-1-MP4-STD/305697-1-MP4-STD_01.mp4
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://cspan-146.c-spanarchives.org:443/bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: app : bwcheck
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: live : no
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: timeout : 30 sec
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe.
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Closing connection.

ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code 1
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
youtube_dl.main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 744, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 734, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 915, in download
self.extract_info(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 504, in extract_info
return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 531, in process_ie_result
return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 721, in process_video_result
self.process_info(new_info)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 886, in process_info
success = fd.download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 290, in download
return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py", line 177, in real_download
self.report_error(u'rtmpdump exited with code %d' % retval)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 143, in report_error
self.ydl.report_error(_args, *_kargs)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 380, in report_error
self.trouble(error_message, tb)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 347, in trouble
tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.01.05. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.