[NowTV] Extractor again broken

[Fusl]

Hi,

NowTV extractor seems to be broken again, something similar happened already #6169

william@Williams-Pro.home :: ~/Downloads# youtube-dl --verbose http://www.nowtv.de/rtl/familien-im-brennpunkt/mittvierzigerin-wird-immer-extremer/player
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.nowtv.de/rtl/familien-im-brennpunkt/mittvierzigerin-wird-immer-extremer/player']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.07.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.1, ffprobe 2.6.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[NowTV] familien-im-brennpunkt/mittvierzigerin-wird-immer-extremer: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://hls.fra.rtlnow.de/hls-vod-enc/abr/videos/247/124319/V_810566_MQXW_13-13000228142_124319_abr-1500_6e158b3cb7ee5e64c67946efc64065.mp4.m3u8'
[download] Destination: Mittvierzigerin wird immer extremer -217387.mp4
ffmpeg version 2.6.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.6.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libxvid --enable-vda
  libavutil      54. 20.100 / 54. 20.100
  libavcodec     56. 26.100 / 56. 26.100
  libavformat    56. 25.101 / 56. 25.101
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 11.102 /  5. 11.102
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
[http @ 0x7fdbad000000] HTTP error 404 Not Found
http://hls.fra.rtlnow.de/hls-vod-enc/abr/videos/247/124319/V_810566_MQXW_13-13000228142_124319_abr-1500_6e158b3cb7ee5e64c67946efc64065.mp4.m3u8: Server returned 404 Not Found


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 410, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 400, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1503, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 667, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 713, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1173, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1377, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 342, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py", line 50, in real_download
    self.report_error('%s exited with code %d' % (ffpp.basename, retval))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 155, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 531, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 493, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

[dstftw]

From reversing their android app I can state that m3u8s are now obtained with http://rtl-now.rtl.de/primetime-abr/<format_id>/<video_id>.m3u8?faxs=1 (e.g. http://rtl-now.rtl.de/primetime-abr/247/217387.m3u8?faxs=1), so this changes to:

m3u8_url = 'http://hls.fra.%s.de/hls-axs/%s.m3u8' % (STATIONS[station], item_path)

However, new playlists are protected with adobe faxs and it doesn't look like recent ffmpeg/avconv are capable of it.

[wp9015362]

@dstftw wrote:

it doesn't look like recent ffmpeg/avconv are capable of it.

So, a feature request for this would need to be submitted on:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/

?

[dstftw]

NowTV will work again in the next version.

[kripton]

Thanks for fixing so fast. About faxs: It's working fine here, the downloaded .flv-files play flawlessly with mplayer.

[dstftw]

rtmp flv has nothing in common with faxs m3u8.

[Fusl]

While it works with nowtv.de the site redirs to nowtv.at with Austrian IP which gives me "unsupported URL".

[dstftw]

@Fusl that's unrelated, open a new issue.

[Fusl]

Will do, thanks!