Site Support Request: tv.jw.org

[business-kid]

This is a new one - very valuable to those who use it, but unfortunately not supported. I did update to version 2014-10-18 to be sure. Here is the output: This is over 4 hours (!) and unwatchable live from Ireland due to bottlenecks somewhere. The url underneath is folded.

bash-4.3$ youtube-dl/youtube-dl --verbose http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODProgramsEvents/pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODProgramsEvents/pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO']
[debug] Encodings: locale ISO-8859-1, fs ISO-8859-1, out ISO-8859-1, pref ISO-8859-1
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.14.5-6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-3110M_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-slackware-14.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO: Downloading webpage
[generic] pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODProgramsEvents/pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 541, in _real_extract
    doc = parse_xml(webpage)
  File "youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1550, in parse_xml
    tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 1, column 1432
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 524, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 193, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "youtube-dl/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 920, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODProgramsEvents/pub-jwbam_E_201410_1_VIDEO; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

In closing, I would say that jw.org strive to be compatible, and their services cater for techno-phobic and low tech users without too much reliance on flash.