Issue: Broken Site: TVP (specifically, Teleexpress @ TVP)

[the-researcher]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: [u'-o', u'/mnt/external/youtube-dl/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--format', u'bestvideo+bestaudio/best', u'--merge-output-format', u'mp4', u'https://vod.tvp.pl/video/teleexpress,15082019-1700,43664673']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.08.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.14.66+-armv7l-with-debian-9.9
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.12-1, ffprobe 3.2.12-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[tvp] 43664673: Downloading webpage
[tvp:embed] 43664673: Downloading webpage
ERROR: tvp:embed said: Transmisja została zakończona lub materiał niedostępny
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/tvp.py", line 129, in _real_extract
    self.IE_NAME, clean_html(error)), expected=True)
ExtractorError: tvp:embed said: Transmisja zosta\u0142a zako\u0144czona lub materia\u0142 niedost\u0119pny

Description

In previous versions of youtube-dl, I have been able to successfully download episodes of Teleexpress from TVP. However, with the updated version of youtube-dl, I am getting an error (translated into English) of this content is either unavailable, or tranmission has ceased.

I can confirm that I can see TVP VOD content through my VPN on my computer. However, when I try to download the content with youtube-dl, I am getting an error.

For what it's worth, I can use the m3u8x extractor to pull the content to my machine, and manually remux to an mp4 format... but youtube-dl was wonderful and easier to use.

Please, please, please fix!

[supercoil]

As far as I can tell, there's a problem with the highest quality audio/video that youtube-dl tries to download automatically when no further options are given. Here's a sample output from a TVP programme with youtube-dl -F (I've removed a few formats for clarity):

[Info] Available formats for 44938430:
format code extension resolution note
mss-audio-175 isma audio only 175k , AACL (44100Hz)
[...]
mss-video-3199 ismv 1280x720 3199k , H264, video only
mss-video-4489 ismv 1920x1080 4489k , H264, video only
hds-570 flv 398x224 570k
hls-570 mp4 398x224 570k , avc1.64000d, 25.0fps, mp4a.40.2
http-570 mp4 398x224 570k , avc1.64000d, 25.0fps, mp4a.40.2
[...]
hds-4663 flv 1920x1080 4663k
hls-4663 mp4 1920x1080 4663k , avc1.640028, 25.0fps, mp4a.40.2 (best)

youtube-dl tries to download the .isma audio and highest quality .ismv video files and then merge them, but these give the following error:
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 1 of 10)...
I get the same error when I try to manually download these with youtube-dl -f. When I try the bottom (best) format with youtube-dl -f hls-4663 it works fine.

[supercoil]

Works again with version 2019.11.28

[supercoil]

Well, I thought it worked, but it's not 100%. I tried a few episodes, including ones that didn't work earlier, and they were OK. But then a few other episodes gave the same error I mentioned before.

[the-researcher]

Unsure of this hold-over fix, but instead of simply providing the URL, I have had better success in forcing which format to pick.

So, this doesn't work:
youtube-dl https://vod.tvp.pl/sess/player/video/45398537

(I'm taking the video UUID (in this case, 45398537), and adding it to the base sess player used by the site)

But this works:
youtube-dl https://vod.tvp.pl/sess/player/video/45398537 -f 'hls-4749'