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Add support for progressive (single file) video-streams from www.rtlxl.nl #3603

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Reino17 opened this issue Aug 27, 2014 · 3 comments
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Add support for progressive (single file) video-streams from www.rtlxl.nl #3603

Reino17 opened this issue Aug 27, 2014 · 3 comments

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@Reino17 Reino17 commented Aug 27, 2014

Actually a repost, but it's better to start a new issue for this.

At the moment youtube-dl only detects rtlXL's adaptive/dynamic video-streams. It downloads these without problems, but I personally, in the first place, am more interested in the youtube-dl.exe -g <url>-command. This way, with a small batch-file, I can quickly let youtube-dl generate and copy the url to the clipboard, so I can open it with Media Player Classic, rather than the online flashplayer. However, youtube-dl returns a link to a f4m-file, which can't be opened by Media Player Classic or ffmpeg directly.
rtlXL does provide progressive/static video-streams however (for iOS and Android I believe). A program called GemistDownloader is able to retrieve those video-streams, but regrettably the author is unwilling to reveal its inner workings.
I've uploaded com.tapptic.rtl5.rtlxl.apk (RTL XL Android app v3.2). I don't know how to let the app create a packet dump, because I don't have much experience with Android. I hope it'll share its secrets with you people, so youtube-dl can get another update. I'd really appreciate it if you could have a look.

[edit]Oh, and if it's possible; just like -F, --list-formats, could you add a -S for --list-subs?[edit]

@dstftw dstftw closed this in de2d9f5 Aug 28, 2014
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@dstftw dstftw commented Aug 28, 2014

Thanks for the report, support for progressive videos has been added and will be available in the next release of youtube-dl.

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@phihag phihag commented Aug 28, 2014

Thank you for the report. youtube-dl 2014.08.28.2 should download these files. Note that you can also use youtube-dl -o - to output a file on stdout which will should be watchable with any good player.

Regarding your edit, please refer to our FAQ, where it is documented why each issue ticket should only entail one actual issue.

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@Reino17 Reino17 commented Aug 28, 2014

Wonderful! Thanks a lot.

Didn't know. I'll start some new issues.

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