FFMpeg Error - index.m3u8 - Protocol not found

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I'm attempting to download the video from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49jEXZEqr0

However, when I try to run this, I get an FFMpeg error about Protocol not found:

> youtube-dl --write-sub C49jEXZEqr0
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] C49jEXZEqr0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] C49jEXZEqr0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] C49jEXZEqr0: Extracting video information
WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles
[youtube] C49jEXZEqr0: Downloading formats manifest
[download] Destination: Open Source Office Hours 8_8-C49jEXZEqr0.mp4
ffmpeg version 2.3.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Aug 25 2014 19:47:15 with Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.3.3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      52. 92.100 / 52. 92.100
  libavcodec     55. 69.100 / 55. 69.100
  libavformat    55. 48.100 / 55. 48.100
  libavdevice    55. 13.102 / 55. 13.102
  libavfilter     4. 11.100 /  4. 11.100
  libavresample   1.  3.  0 /  1.  3.  0
  libswscale      2.  6.100 /  2.  6.100
  libswresample   0. 19.100 /  0. 19.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/id/C49jEXZEqr0.1/itag/95/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/cmbypass/yes/gir/yes/dg_shard/C49jEXZEqr0.1_95/hls_chunk_host/r5---sn-u2bpouxgoxu-ntqs.googlevideo.com/maudio/1/gcr/au/pmbypass/yes/playlist_type/CLEAN/upn/wZlXYSUs9rI/fexp/902408,916601,927622,930817,931983,932625,934024,934030,942462,946023,948600,950874/sver/3/mm/32/ms/lv/mt/1409043438/mv/u/ip/203.206.228.20/ipbits/0/expire/1409065077/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,cmbypass,gir,dg_shard,hls_chunk_host,maudio,gcr,pmbypass,playlist_type/signature/94A3DE02D96D39E6EF0CC29F7605EE5C60B89E0C.4E870A1DB32299043139016CF7A006F0B6E111FA/key/dg_yt0/file/index.m3u8: Protocol not found


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1

Any thoughts on what's going on?

[jaimeMF]

The problem is that ffmpeg has been compiled without ssl support. It seems that you have used Homebrew to install ffmpeg, you can run brew reinstall ffmpeg --with-openssl to build ffmpeg with ssl support.

[victorhooi]

Thanks for that - I can confirm that I did install ffmpeg via home-brew, and reinstalling with OpenSSL support did resolve the video (although it now appears to be transcoding it - although that may be a separate issue).

[dzg]

I'm having the same issue but reinstalling with openssl did not solve... :-(
Any ideas?

[yan12125]

@dzg Please paste the output of your commands. Don't forget to include -v in the command.

[tommcintyre]

@dzg It may be that youtube-dl is selecting avconv/libav over ffmpeg. For me, brew uninstall libav fixed this, ensuring that youtube-dl used ffmpeg.

[NoLooseEnds]

This worked for me too. Removed libav.

Is there anyway to force youtube-dl to use ffmpeg?

[yan12125]

Is there anyway to force youtube-dl to use ffmpeg?

Add --prefer-ffmpeg to commands to configuration files

[NoLooseEnds]

Perfect. Thanks. That worked with libav installed :)