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Tumblr: No Format selection / Gets low-res video only #7036

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Hrxn opened this issue Oct 1, 2015 · 2 comments
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Tumblr: No Format selection / Gets low-res video only #7036

Hrxn opened this issue Oct 1, 2015 · 2 comments

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@Hrxn Hrxn commented Oct 1, 2015

This applies to all videos on Tumblr which have that nice 'HD' button in the lower right corner.

Tumblr now serves two different videos (two different files), or maybe even more, don't know about their API or backend.

2015-10-04:
I found an example: http://larastonesbitch.tumblr.com/post/130035771559/honestlyiconic
Great. Just a few days later, and that blog already moved..
Example is now here, it seems: http://larastoneswitch.tumblr.com/post/130035771559/honestlyiconic

youtube-dl --get-url http://larastoneswitch.tumblr.com/post/130035771559

gives us this link:
https://www.tumblr.com/video_file/130279545660/tumblr_nvda1gkdqg1uqlov4/480
(To get the file: Right-click, save link as)

You will get a .mp4 file.

If you use this direct link:
https://www.tumblr.com/video_file/130279545660/tumblr_nvda1gkdqg1uqlov4

You get a different .mp4 file. Still the same video, but higher resolution (better quality)

(You can also click the links directly, the video gets now played in your browser (usually), but you can clearly see the different videos/files/resolutions)

Please note: The quality in general isn't that great in my example here, but this was just the first video I found that had the HD button.

Edit:

This video is SFW. Looks like a short clip from an older Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, I think.
Finding a NSFW video would have been faster, though ;-)

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@Hrxn Hrxn commented Oct 5, 2015

For the record:

The old example link is not longer working anymore.

The post with the video has moved here: http://larastoneswitch.tumblr.com/post/130035771559/honestlyiconic

OTOH, thank you, good job!

dstftw added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 5, 2015
[tumblr] Replaced test URL for HD video as old one lead to 404

[tumblr] Don't make assumptions about video resolution, cleaner handling of no HD version available

[tumblr] Removed extraneous resolution key in HD video tests
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@dstftw dstftw commented Oct 5, 2015

HD videos will be supported in the next version.

@dstftw dstftw closed this Oct 5, 2015
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