Canal+ seems to have dropped RTMP for Adobe HD

[Cigaes]

/tmp/youtube-dl $ ./youtube-dl 'http://www.canalplus.fr/c-humour/pid1784-c-les-guignols.html'
[canalplus.fr] pid1784-c-les-guignols.html: Downloading webpage
[canalplus.fr] 1054753: Downloading video info
[canalplus.fr] 1054753: Extracting information
[download] Destination: Les Guignols de l'Info du 15_04_14 - Chirac sur Copé-1054753.flv
[rtmpdump] 0 bytes


ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code 1

I was not testing with youtube-dl, but my own old script uses rtmpdump too: it was still working last Friday (2014-04-11) and stopped Monday (2014-04-14).

Apparently, Canal+ decided to use Adobe HDS (f4m) now.

I was able to download the current episode using the following method:

php5 AdobeHDS.php --manifest 'http://us-cplus-aka.canal-plus.com/z/1404/LES_GUIGNOLS_QUOTIDIEN_140415_AUTO_24096_169_video_,MOB,L,H,HD,.mp4.csmil/manifest.f4m?hdcore=2.11.3&g=NJAGXFZVHTAR' --quality 877

The AdobeHDS.php script was downloaded from there: https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts

The manifest URL was obtained using Iceweasel's net console during the web player startup; the NJAGXFZVHTAR blob seems irrelevant. The 877 quality parameter is unnecessary (the script downloads the highest quality by default) and comes from the manifest itself.

[dstftw]

Thanks for the report, fixed and will be available in the next release of youtube-dl.

[Cigaes]

That was fast. I had not realized that F4M was already implemented.
(There still is the issue of the bitrate selection from the variants in the F4M manifest, but that is another story entirely.)
Thanks a lot.