`youtube-dl -F` often hangs for a long time on vimeo videos

[heartbeep]

Usually it's pretty quick (1-2 seconds), but often it can take 1-2 minutes just to get the formats on a vimeo video. It seems to be the step downloading webpage or JSON. Any idea what might be causing the delay, and the inconsistency?

[yan12125]

Please give an example URL as well as the verbose output with -v.

[heartbeep]

time ./youtube-dl -v -F https://vimeo.com/157743578
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-F', u'https://vimeo.com/157743578']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.2, ffprobe 2.7.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 157743578: Extracting information
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for 157743578:
format code extension resolution note
hls-meta mp4 multiple Quality selection URL
hls-689 mp4 640x360 689k , avc1.4D4016, mp4a.40.2
http-360p mp4 640x360 24fps
hls-1936 mp4 960x540 1936k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2
http-540p mp4 960x540 24fps
hls-3252 mp4 1280x720 3252k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2
http-720p mp4 1280x720 24fps
hls-5530 mp4 1920x1080 5530k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
http-1080p mp4 1920x1080 24fps (best)

real 0m1.526s
user 0m0.674s
sys 0m0.078s

~/Development/WeMesh/github/android/libraries/youtube-dl-> time ./youtube-dl -v -F https://vimeo.com/157743578
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-F', u'https://vimeo.com/157743578']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.2, ffprobe 2.7.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 157743578: Extracting information
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading JSON metadata
[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for 157743578:
format code extension resolution note
hls-meta mp4 multiple Quality selection URL
hls-689 mp4 640x360 689k , avc1.4D4016, mp4a.40.2
http-360p mp4 640x360 24fps
hls-1936 mp4 960x540 1936k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2
http-540p mp4 960x540 24fps
hls-3252 mp4 1280x720 3252k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2
http-720p mp4 1280x720 24fps
hls-5530 mp4 1920x1080 5530k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
http-1080p mp4 1920x1080 24fps (best)

real 1m18.399s
user 0m0.644s
sys 0m0.077s

[heartbeep]

@yan12125 as you can see above, the first time (and most of the time, today at least) it only took 1 or 2 seconds, but another time it took over a minute.

[mikaiyl]

Given that the first time it worked fast and without problems, I would chalk this up to a network connectivity issue. The only thing that could be changed in the script is the timeout, which would just exit with an error instead of downloading.

[yan12125]

@0xABC In the following command:

youtube-dl -v -F https://vimeo.com/157743578

Which line of the output takes the longest time?

[heartbeep]

@yan12125 This line took the longest:

[vimeo] 157743578: Downloading webpage

I just tried it 5 times in a row (youtube-dl 2016.05.10), and it was fast except for the last time when it took over an entire minute. Might have something to do with vimeo's servers. But it's very reproducible if you try several times.

[Hrxn]

If you visit/use Vimeo in your browser, does it sometimes takes a while to load, or is it slow in any other way?