Bloomberg extractor calls avconv and results in a .mp4 that only has audio

[attila-lendvai]

url:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/faber-sees-gigantic-asset-bubble-slowing-growth-O4LPyOs9SGmVjZXlNc442Q.html

output:

$ youtube-dl --version
2014.01.08

$ youtube-dl --title --continue "http://www.bloomberg.com/video/faber-sees-gigantic-asset-bubble-slowing-growth-O4LPyOs9SGmVjZXlNc442Q.html"
[Bloomberg] faber-sees-gigantic-asset-bubble-slowing-growth-O4LPyOs9SGmVjZXlNc442Q: Downloading webpage
[Ooyala] ZkYmh5ajrXqNsAcR7mOInNxMIVi8S3sa: Downloading webpage
[Ooyala] ZkYmh5ajrXqNsAcR7mOInNxMIVi8S3sa: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Faber Sees `Gigantic' Asset Bubble, Slowing Growth-ZkYmh5ajrXqNsAcR7mOInNxMIVi8S3sa.mp4
avconv version 0.8.9-6:0.8.9-1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
  built on Nov  3 2013 00:54:50 with gcc 4.7.2
[applehttp @ 0x6c7460] max_analyze_duration reached
[applehttp @ 0x6c7460] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, applehttp, from 'http://player.ooyala.com/player/ipad/ZkYmh5ajrXqNsAcR7mOInNxMIVi8S3sa.m3u8?js=1':
  Duration: 00:09:56.00, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1048000
    Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1048000
    Stream #0.2: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 48000
    Stream #0.3: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 330000
    Stream #0.4: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 330000
    Stream #0.5: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 446000
    Stream #0.6: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 446000
    Stream #0.7: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 706000
    Stream #0.8: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 706000
    Stream #0.9: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1706000
    Stream #0.10: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1706000
    Stream #0.11: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 2496000
    Stream #0.12: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 2496000
    Stream #0.13: Video: h264, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 3278000
    Stream #0.14: Audio: aac, 0 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 3278000
Output #0, mp4, to 'Faber Sees `Gigantic' Asset Bubble, Slowing Growth-ZkYmh5ajrXqNsAcR7mOInNxMIVi8S3sa.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf53.21.1
    Stream #0.0: Audio: libvo_aacenc, 44100 Hz, stereo
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 48000
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:2 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press ctrl-c to stop encoding
size=    5144kB time=660.24 bitrate=  63.8kbits/s    
video:0kB audio:4942kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 4.093147%
[avconv] 5267438 bytes

[jaimeMF]

avconv is used to download videos with .m3u8 manifests (we don't have our own downloader for them). I don't know why avconv chooses an audio version of the video, ffmpeg correcly downloads the best quality video version. We need to explicitly pass the manifest url of one of the video versions.

[attila-lendvai]

also note this: "Press ctrl-c to stop encoding"

i doubt any encoding happens, it may be just a wrong message... but you never know.

[jaimeMF]

We use now our own downloader, the audio is included.