Please help me dl a video from https://zonia.com/lgmb5e/lg-episode-4-live-uxd0igav8d

Chris Steele (Ethan Hines)

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Jan 19, 2024, 10:46:46 PM1/19/24

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What I know:

1. It uses an .mpd file. (I don’t know what an mpd file is but I think it contains a manifest)

2. There is a post https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/knS2BVgF1xs/m/a2UKAnL4EwAJthat speaks of dling a video from this site but I can’t follow it

3. I downloaded a plugin for firefox that gave me the .mpd url https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/f78b4e69-52cb-4c35-bd18-700668a55ad8/f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.mpd?t=0.5175351141536425 called "The stream Detector"

4. I tried to use vlc to play this, it didn’t work.

mjs

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Jan 20, 2024, 1:25:49 AM1/20/24

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Have you used yt-dlp before ? , all you have to do is replace mpd with m3u8 in your link and put it in yt-dlp.

To ask for formats : yt-dlp -F "m3u8 link"

generic] Extracting URL: https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/f78b4e69-52cb-4c35-bd18-700668a55ad8/f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6...t=0.8916532131229891
[generic] f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.m3u8?t=0: Downloading webpage
[generic] f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.m3u8?t=0: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.m3u8?t=0: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] Available formats for f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.m3u8?t=0:
ID EXT RESOLUTION │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC ACODEC
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
800 mp4 960x540 │ ~435.25MiB 800k m3u8 │ unknown unknown
1800 mp4 1280x720 │ ~979.32MiB 1800k m3u8 │ unknown unknown
4800 mp4 1920x1080 │ ~ 2.55GiB 4800k m3u8 │ unknown unknown

Then select your format, if you want 1080p : yt-dlp -f 4800 -o "name of the file.mp4" "m3u8 link"

Chris Steele (Ethan Hines)

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Jan 20, 2024, 1:57:37 AM1/20/24

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yes i tried yt-dlp this was the result

[generic] Extracting URL:
https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/f78b4e69-52cb-4c35-bd18-700668a55ad8/f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b
9d6...db0acf9366dd6cf6.mpd
[generic] f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6:
Downloading webpage
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor
[generic] f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6:
Extracting information
ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by
KeyError('sourceURL')); please report this issue on
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the
appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version
using yt-dlp -U

Chris Steele (Ethan Hines)

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Jan 20, 2024, 1:59:04 AM1/20/24

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yt-dlp_win>yt-dlp.exe -U
Latest version: sta...@2023.12.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (sta...@2023.12.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)

Chris Steele (Ethan Hines)

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Jan 20, 2024, 2:00:07 AM1/20/24

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am i doing something wrong that would give the ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by
KeyError('sourceURL')) error?

mjs

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Jan 20, 2024, 2:13:26 AM1/20/24

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Yes like I said , your original link is :

https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/f78b4e69-52cb-4c35-bd18-700668a55ad8/f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.mpd?t=0.7584668293485495

All you have to do is remember to replace mpd to m3u8 like :

https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/f78b4e69-52cb-4c35-bd18-700668a55ad8/f7e9c0406b162a316ba168a4b9d6a749b8cd6c63eaf521c1db0acf9366dd6cf6.m3u8?t=0.7584668293485495

Notice the part in bold, you didn't change anything so it encountered the error.

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