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nytimes downloads are unplayable #24010

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jdrukman opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 0 comments
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nytimes downloads are unplayable #24010

jdrukman opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 0 comments

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@jdrukman jdrukman commented Feb 9, 2020

It seems like it's doing something but the downloaded file is not usable. ffprobe doesn't identify anything in it, and it won't play in VLC, IINA, QT Player, etc...

$ youtube-dl 'https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000006960506/wuhan-coronavirus-drone.html?action=click&module=video-series-bar&region=header&pgtype=Article&playlistId=video/asia-pacific'
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading video JSON
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading m3u8 information
[NYTimes] 100000006960506: Downloading m3u8 information
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 11
[download] Destination: Drone Footage Shows Wuhan Under Lockdown-100000006960506.mp4
[download] 100% of 36.58MiB in 00:04

ffprobe says

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] could not find corresponding trex (id 1)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] could not find corresponding track id 0
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] trun track id unknown, no tfhd was found
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7faf8480bc00] error reading header

bbepis referenced this issue in animelover1984/youtube-dl Feb 27, 2020
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