Failure to download RTMP stream from Youtube #2525

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opened 2026-02-21 00:24:07 -05:00 by deekerman · 6 comments
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Originally created by @zwerfvogel on GitHub (Jul 2, 2014).

My video is detected as having an RTMP stream, but it is not downloaded correctly, despite rtmpdump 2.4 being installed.

~$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qoPRyvPOU
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qoPRyvPOU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.06.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Extracting video information
[youtube] RTMP download detected
[download] Destination: Кубанские казаки _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video
[debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmpe://v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback -o 'Кубанские казаки _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video.part' --resume --skip 1
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
[rtmpdump] (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 2
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host    : v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app     : videoplayback
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath
ERROR: unable to download video
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1050, in download
    self.extract_info(url)
  File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 527, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 564, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1025, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\xd0\x9a\xd1\x83\xd0\xb1\xd0\xb0\xd0\xbd\xd1\x81\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb5 \xd0\xba\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb7\xd0\xb0\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8 _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video.part'
Originally created by @zwerfvogel on GitHub (Jul 2, 2014). My video is detected as having an RTMP stream, but it is not downloaded correctly, despite rtmpdump 2.4 being installed. ``` ~$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qoPRyvPOU [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qoPRyvPOU'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2014.06.26 [debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.5 [debug] Proxy map: {} [youtube] Setting language [youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Downloading webpage [youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] L5qoPRyvPOU: Extracting video information [youtube] RTMP download detected [download] Destination: Кубанские казаки _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video [debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmpe://v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback -o 'Кубанские казаки _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video.part' --resume --skip 1 [rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4 [rtmpdump] (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL [rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing... [rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 2 [rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host : v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com [rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app : videoplayback [rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1 [rtmpdump] ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath ERROR: unable to download video Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1050, in download self.extract_info(url) File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 527, in extract_info return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info) File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 564, in process_ie_result return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download) File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in process_video_result self.process_info(new_info) File "/home/user1/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1025, in process_info raise UnavailableVideoError(err) UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\xd0\x9a\xd1\x83\xd0\xb1\xd0\xb0\xd0\xbd\xd1\x81\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb5 \xd0\xba\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb7\xd0\xb0\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8 _ The Cossacks of Kuban-L5qoPRyvPOU.unknown_video.part' ```
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@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014):

It seems that youtube-dl is wrongly calling rtmpdump
This part is from rtmpdump:

ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath

@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014): It seems that youtube-dl is wrongly calling rtmpdump This part is from rtmpdump: `ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath`
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@zwerfvogel commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014):

Yes, but I do not think it is called incorrectly -- I ran rtmpdump separately, ensuring that the syntax was correct. After looking at similar issues related to RTMP, it seems that the real problem is a generic url returned from Youtube.

@zwerfvogel commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014): Yes, but I do not think it is called incorrectly -- I ran rtmpdump separately, ensuring that the syntax was correct. After looking at similar issues related to RTMP, it seems that the real problem is a generic url returned from Youtube.
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@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014):

It's missing the video URL after rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmpe://v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback[SOMETHINGHERE]?

@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014): It's missing the video URL after `rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmpe://v10.nonxt2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback[SOMETHINGHERE]`?
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@zwerfvogel commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014):

Yes, something like that -- have a look at #2908 and #343 but it is not clear what the status of those bugs is.

@zwerfvogel commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014): Yes, something like that -- have a look at #2908 and #343 but it is not clear what the status of those bugs is.
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@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014):

Looking at #343 it seems that it's very difficult to find the proper stream URL.
It's still open.

@naoliv commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2014): Looking at #343 it seems that it's very difficult to find the proper stream URL. It's still open.
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@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Sep 30, 2014):

Duplicate of #1797.

@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Sep 30, 2014): Duplicate of #1797.
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