[AlJazeera] [geoblocked] Proper video doesn't download

[anovicecodemonkey]

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$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2016/04/panama-papers-media-censored-story-160409095509553.html[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2016/04/panama-papers-media-censored-story-160409095509553.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.06
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Linux-4.4.5-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[AlJazeera] panama-papers-media-censored-story-160409095509553: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading JSON metadata
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://bc05.ajmn.me/665003303001/201604/3931/665003303001_4838653344001_20160409-PRG-E-LPO-Panama-4017257-copy.mp4'
[download] Panama Papers - Has the media censored the story - The Listening Post (Full)-4838694274001.mp4 has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 99.29KiB

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<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

youtube-dl appears to first detect correctly that AlJazeeraIE is needed but then swaps to brightcovenewIE downloading only a 99KB file.

[dstftw]

Works fine for me:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2016/04/panama-papers-media-censored-story-160409095509553.html', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 6a801f4
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0, ffprobe N-77883-gd7c75a5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[AlJazeera] panama-papers-media-censored-story-160409095509553: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading webpage
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading JSON metadata
[brightcove:new] 4838694274001: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://bc05.ajmn.me/665003303001/201604/3931/665003303001_4838653344001_20160409-PRG-E-LPO-Panama-4017257-copy.mp4'
[download] Resuming download at byte 272440453
[download] Destination: Panama Papers - Have the media censored the story - The Listening Post (Full)-4838694274001.mp4
[download]  61.0% of 1.01GiB at 10.08MiB/s ETA 00:39
ERROR: Interrupted by user

[anovicecodemonkey]

Thanks @dstftw. On further investigation it appears that the video downloaded is a short video explaining that the content is geoblocked in my location (US).

[anovicecodemonkey]

I still think it's worthwhile finding a way to detect a geoblock in this case and present a useful error (if that is indeed possible).

[dstftw]

With brief look I did not find any indication of geoblock.

[anovicecodemonkey]

OK. With --dump-pages, one of the pages was 4838694274001_https_-_edge.api.brightcove.com_playback_v1_accounts_665003303001_videos_4838694274001.dump

in there I found the URL http://bc05.ajmn.me/665003303001/201604/3931/665003303001_4838653344001_20160409-PRG-E-LPO-Pan"ama-4017257-copy.mp4

If I load that in my browser I am redirected to http://bc05.ajmn.me/665003303001/665003303001_2585446690001_GeoMessage.mp4
which I have confirmed is the final video downloaded by youtube-dl.

Hope that helps.