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Trying to download from extremetube.com resulted in the error "unable to extract flash vars". Semi random sample used for ticketing purposes off the home page here:
youtube-dl.exe --verbose http://www.extremetube.com/video/friendly-fucking-for-two-couples-2802851
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.extremetube.com/video/friendly-fucking-for-two-couples-2802851']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.10.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ExtremeTube] 2802851: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract flash vars; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the
--verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 660, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 290, in extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\extremetube.pyo", line 53, in _real_extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 584, in _search_regex
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract flash vars; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtub
e-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.