[ooyala] picking formats with m3u8 manifests (was: picking formats)

[kickerofelves]

In my youtube-dl.conf I have -f "18/43/34/h264-sd/flv/mp4-sd/mp4". When trying to download from some sites (particularly ooyala), I still get the highest resolution.

1. How do I pick the res where 480x270, 640x360, and 1280x720 are available? (See below)
2. My config also fails when getting soundcloud files. -fwav and -fmp3 also fail. It would be nice if there was some way to disable the -f or all the youtube-dl.conf options.

[Vice] life-as-a-truck-stop-stripper-full-length: Downloading webpage
[Ooyala] 5yeW9mazqGRQO-Kig7MadzZ-kh4nbmDM: Downloading webpage
[Ooyala] 5yeW9mazqGRQO-Kig7MadzZ-kh4nbmDM: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Vice_-_Every_Woman_-Full_Length-5yeW9mazqGRQO-Kig7MadzZ-kh4nbmDM.mp4
ffmpeg version 1.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct  3 2013 05:43:15 with gcc 4.8 (Debian 4.8.1-10)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security ' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-libvpx --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-avfilter --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-decoder=amrnb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libaacplus --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vda --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-frei0r --enable-openssl --enable-libass --enable-libopus --enable-fontconfig --enable-libpulse --disable-mips32r2 --disable-mipsdspr1 --dis  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
[mpegts @ 0x237b8c0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[aac @ 0x24cae40] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510 microseconds
[aac @ 0x24cae40] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[mpegts @ 0x2811e80] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[mpegts @ 0x2856960] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://player.ooyala.com/player/ipad/5yeW9mazqGRQO-Kig7MadzZ-kh4nbmDM.m3u8?js=1':
  Duration: 00:27:24.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 868000
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 640x360, 11.99 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 868000
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 130 kb/s
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 868000
  Program 1 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 128000
    Stream #0:2: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 137 kb/s
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 128000
  Program 2 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 442000
    Stream #0:3: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 480x270, 11.99 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 442000
    Stream #0:4: Audio: aac ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 32000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 68 kb/s
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 442000
  Program 3 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1530000
    Stream #0:5: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 1280x720, 11.99 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1530000
    Stream #0:6: Audio: aac ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 130 kb/s
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1530000
Output #0, mp4, to 'Vice_-_Every_Woman_-Full_Length-5yeW9mazqGRQO-Kig7MadzZ-kh4nbmDM.mp4.part':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf54.63.104
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 1280x720, q=2-31, 11.99 fps, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 1530000
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stereo, 130 kb/s
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 868000
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:5 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
No longer receiving variant 1ze=    1219kB time=00:00:08.01 bitrate=1247.0kbits/s    
No longer receiving variant 2ze=    1508kB time=00:00:09.96 bitrate=1239.8kbits/s    
frame=  331 fps= 48 q=-1.0 size=    2257kB time=00:00:13.86 bitrate=1333.7kbits/s    
ERROR: Interrupted by user
frame=  340 fps= 48 q=-1.0 Lsize=    2349kB time=00:00:14.21 bitrate=1354.1kbits/s    
video:2116kB audio:227kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.273598%
Received signal 2: terminating.

[jaimeMF]

Please post at least which url you are trying to download from, so that we can better help. Probably the problem is with the m3u8 manifest, I think it just downloads the best quality.

If you specify the format option in the command it will override the formats set in the configuration file. For ignoring the configuration files there's an open issue: #633.

Please open a new issue for the soundcloud problem and post the output of youtube-dl URL --verbose -f mp3.

[kickerofelves]

Sorry, the url got cut off.
http://www.vice.com/every-woman/life-as-a-truck-stop-stripper-full-length
another example is:
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/2/2/5370376/ufc-169-post-fight-show

Thanks for pointing to the previous ticket. Doesn't seem like it'll happen anytime soon.

[rbrito]

This request seems very similar to one that I got downstream on Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753309

[lmamane]

Yes, that is exactly the same request as in Debian bug 753309, only here it is framed as a bug (it does't work, I expect it would) while in the Debian bug it is framed more as a "new feature".

A workable method would be to parse the output of avprobe, or parse the m3u8 file yourself (it doesn't seem to be a complicated format).

[yan12125]

Thanks for the suggestion. For Ooyala videos, m3u8 information are extracted now.

@kickerofelves The second URL http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/2/2/5370376/ufc-169-post-fight-show contains a Youtube video and an Ooyala video. However, youtube-dl detects the Youtube video first, so the Ooyala video is not downloaded. We'll have to wait until the feature requested in #5587 implemented to correctly extract both videos.