Apple Trailers not getting the video url sometimes

[Peterede]

For the URL http://movietrailers.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/kuboandthetwostrings/ the video url is not found.

[yan12125]

Such URLs will be recognized in the next version. However, youtube-dl is currently broken for Apple trailers. See #8422 for more information. I leave this ticket open until #8422 is resolved.

[yan12125]

It's working now - Apple trailers are fixed.

[teebu]

is this related? http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/PurpleVideo118/v4/63/d0/34/63d034c5-b681-1227-6c14-951c8ebdd999/P49537982_default.m3u8 is missing url in the json dump.

[yan12125]

@teebu Sorry, what do you mean?

[teebu]

when i try to dump json on that m3u8, it doesnt have the url field in the info. compared to a youtube url. i'm pretty sure it used to have one a while ago, but now im getting errors in my code.

[yan12125]

This m3u8 uses video-only and audio-only formats, so there's no single url. You can check urls from the requested_formats field.

[teebu]

So what you're saying:

youtube-dl.exe -F  http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/PurpleVideo118/v4/63/d0/34/63d034c5-b681-1227-6c14-951c8ebdd999/P49537982_default.m3u8

youtube-dl.exe -j -f 3371  http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/PurpleVideo118/v4/63/d0/34/63d034c5-b681-1227-6c14-951c8ebdd999/P49537982_default.m3u8

But when I try to do:

youtube-dl.exe -j -f best  http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/PurpleVideo118/v4/63/d0/34/63d034c5-b681-1227-6c14-951c8ebdd999/P49537982_default.m3u8
ERROR: requested format not available

[yan12125]

best means the best video+audio format, while there are only video-only and audio-only formats in this m3u8.

[teebu]

How do I auto select best? It looks like that 3371 mp4 also has audio in it.

-f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4'

is this a good option? should i add /best to the end?

[yan12125]

How do I auto select best?

Using mp4 as a fallback does not always work. Not every video has a format called "mp4". (A format called mp4 != a format with file extension mp4) You can use -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]'. If you don't care about file extensions, you can use -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best. Note that bestvideo+bestaudio/best is the current default.

It looks like that 3371 mp4 also has audio in it.

No, format 3371 has only one video stream.