Subtitles not found on Red Bull TV #25651

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opened 2026-02-21 13:54:07 -05:00 by deekerman · 1 comment

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 13:54:07 -05:00

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Originally created by @fhcwcsy on GitHub (Dec 30, 2022).

I'm reporting a broken site support
I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

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$ youtube-dl -v https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6 --list-sub
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6', '--list-sub']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Python version 3.9.12 (CPython) - Linux-5.15.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.2, ffprobe 4.4.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[RedBull] reel-rock-s8-e6: Downloading JSON metadata
[RedBullEmbed] rrn:content:episode-videos:c038ad0f-7ce7-4825-b47e-5c5de25ff2c6:en-INT: Downloading JSON metadata
[RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading access token
[RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading video information
[RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading m3u8 information
AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82 has no subtitles

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It doesn't seems to be correctly finding subtitles on Red Bull TV. For example, the following video has many subtitles but they were not found by youtube-dl:

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6

Originally created by @fhcwcsy on GitHub (Dec 30, 2022). - [x] I'm reporting a broken site support - [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version **2021.12.17** - [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser - [x] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped - [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones ## Verbose log ``` $ youtube-dl -v https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6 --list-sub [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6', '--list-sub'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Python version 3.9.12 (CPython) - Linux-5.15.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.2, ffprobe 4.4.2 [debug] Proxy map: {} [RedBull] reel-rock-s8-e6: Downloading JSON metadata [RedBullEmbed] rrn:content:episode-videos:c038ad0f-7ce7-4825-b47e-5c5de25ff2c6:en-INT: Downloading JSON metadata [RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading access token [RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading video information [RedBullEmbed] AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82: Downloading m3u8 information AANUZR8HLR8731PQKS82 has no subtitles ``` ## Description It doesn't seems to be correctly finding subtitles on Red Bull TV. For example, the following video has many subtitles but they were not found by `youtube-dl`: [https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6](https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s8-e6)

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2026-02-21 13:54:09 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Dec 30, 2022):

Whatever subtitles might be available (the video gives an endless redirect to my "UK content" in my browser), they aren't listed in the non-JS webpage, nor in the data returned by the APIs that the extractor uses, nor in the M3U8 manifests. Also the page contains this JSON fragment for the video:

"subtitlesLanguages":[]

However, this similar yt-dlp issue was resolved by extracting VTT subtitles from the M3U8 manifest. The same fix can be applied in the yt-dl extractor once the common _extract_m3u8_formats_and_subtitles() method has been back-ported.

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Dec 30, 2022): Whatever subtitles might be available (the video gives an endless redirect to my "UK content" in my browser), they aren't listed in the non-JS webpage, nor in the data returned by the APIs that the extractor uses, nor in the M3U8 manifests. Also the page contains this JSON fragment for the video: ```json "subtitlesLanguages":[] ``` However, [this similar yt-dlp issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2151) was resolved by extracting VTT subtitles from the M3U8 manifest. The same fix can be applied in the yt-dl extractor once the common `_extract_m3u8_formats_and_subtitles()` method has been back-ported.

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