Motor Trend on Demand

[tv21]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a new site support request
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

• Single video: https://www.motortrendondemand.com/detail/the-story-of-ford-vs-ferrari/0_1j1evbz7/
• Single video: https://www.motortrendondemand.com/detail/the-breakdown-tesla-cybertruck-range-batteries-and-towing/0_cxw05fsl/
• Playlist: N/A

Description

This is Motor Trend's premium site but the above videos are free to watch. You can also join free for 14 days to watch TV shows from their network. This is not the same as their watch.motortrend.com site for which support is currently broken (same problem that seems to be affecting other Discovery Network channels), and I do not think the Discovery extractor would work on this site even if it were working, but my suspicion is it is completely different from the other site. In any case the site's URL is not currently recognized.

[remitamine]

for now, you can this command to download videos from this site using the last id in the URL(0_xxxxxxxx):
youtube-dl -f '[protocol=m3u8_native]' kaltura:2093031:0_1j1evbz7

[tv21]

Thank you!

[tv21]

Is there any way to also specify the quality? For example if you do

youtube-dl -F kaltura:2093031:0_1j1evbz7

It shows several formats available but how would it be possible to combine one of those with '[protocol=m3u8_native]', or is that possible?

[remitamine]

the point is to select hls- prefixed formats, mp4- prefixed formats are not available.
you can select by name(480p):

youtube-dl -f hls-719 kaltura:2093031:0_1j1evbz7

or by resolution:

youtube-dl -f '[protocol=m3u8_native][height=540]' kaltura:2093031:0_1j1evbz7

for other possibilities read https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection.

[tv21]

Okay, got it, thank you again.

[danwald]

I can take this one

[danwald]

@remitamine I always seem to get a timeout when running the testcase I wrote. I have increased the timeout but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

[remitamine]

pass skip_download to the test case params dict.

[danwald]

@remitamine I did, however its not the video that time out and fails, it the initial webpage. It works in the browser and using requests too but it not using the test case seen below. What am I messing up?

    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?motortrendondemand\.com/(?:detail/)?(?:[\w-]+/)?(?P<id>[^/]+)/?(?:$|[?#])'
    _TEST = {
        'url': 'https://www.motortrendondemand.com/detail/the-story-of-ford-vs-ferrari/0_1j1evbz7/',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '0_1j1evbz7',
            'ext': 'unknown_video',
            'title': 'The Story of Ford vs Ferrari',
            'description': 'md5:8c26e5433046a58967ed7e4ea2e6f484',
        },
        'params': {
            'skip_download': True,
        },
        'expected_warnings': ['Failed to download m3u8 information'],
    }

[remitamine]

for this extractor, you don't have to request motortrendondemand.com webpage at all, and the Kaltura extractor works fine(except that there is a need to extract only available formats), so most likely it's a problem with the extractor you're creating or your development envirenment.

[FunctionalHacker]

Hi, I would like to point out that with youtube-dl -f '[protocol=m3u8_native]' kaltura:2093031:$ID I only get 720p streams.