Option to get non https urls only please?

[kokoko3k]

Hi, i develop a gui that plays youtube videos via mplayer and to do that, i rely on youtube-dl to get urls that i feed directly to mplayer.
Lately, more and more urls returned by youtube-dl are https ones.
That urls cannot be played by mplayer, since it lacks https support.

As a totally noob about python, i just tried that:
cp /path/to/youtube.py /path/to/youtube.py.bak
cat /path/to/youtube.py.bak | sed 's/https/http/' > /path/to/youtube.py

After that, every url returned by youtube-dl was "https free" and playable streams.

That makes me think that it would be possible for youtube-dl to return http urls; that's why i'm asking you to provide a way to do it without ugly sed hacks to the code :)

What do you think? Thanks for reading.

[phihag]

May I ask what's wrong with youtube-dl -o - | mplayer - ? I'd rather solve the problem of supporting a player generically than add a workaround would leak to the preference of unencrypted content.

[kokoko3k]

Piping to mplayer makes seeking impossible; named pipes would be
better, but still the user would be unable to seek (too) forward.

Unfortunately i don't think mplayer would ever support https, there's
an open bug report from years ago...
I'm certainly not asking for youtube-dl to defaulting to non encrypted
connections; still a switch like -no-ssl would be very useful in this
particular case.

Please, consider it again...

2014-03-14 23:12 GMT+01:00, Philipp Hagemeister notifications@github.com:

May I ask what's wrong with youtube-dl -o - | mplayer - ? I'd rather solve
the problem of supporting a player generically than add a workaround would
leak to the preference of unencrypted content.

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[jaimeMF]

Closing as a duplicate of #2364.