yt-dlp: with "-o -" you get a 403 forbidden error

Checklist

I’m reporting a site feature request
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.02.04. (update instructions)
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
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Region

France

Example URLs

https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html

Description

With some urls I can’t use the “-o -” option to pipe to ffmpeg.

here it works : the file is downloaded : ./yt-dlp https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html
here it does not work : ./yt-dlp https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html -o -

It starts and then there is this error :

[https @ 0x96f440] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzQyNzN+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NTlkY2EzMDBjMTQ2ZDZhZDc3ZTU4ZmViNTIwYTc0YWQ1MjhlOTEyMWY5ZTQ1NThiNGNmMzgwMTExNDNkMDk1ZA==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-audio_fre=96000.m3u8: Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)

ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1

As end-user it is surprinsing to have different results for the same url by only changing the output. The code for the “-o -” option does not work as well as for the file output.

!!! NB : I use the site without account. So I can’t play the videos in my browser. But it works with yt-dlp ! The question is why not with “-o -” !!!

It is probably the same with all videos here : https://www.france.tv/sport/

Verbose log

bash-5.1$ ./yt-dlp https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html -o - -vU
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html', '-o', '-', '-vU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef] (zip)
[debug] Python version 3.9.10 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.16.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-6100H_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-glibc2.33
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.4.1 (setts), ffprobe 4.4.1
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)
[debug] [FranceTVSite] Extracting URL: https://www.france.tv/sport/les-jeux-olympiques/3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans.html
[FranceTVSite] 3103093-big-air-f-le-podium-de-tess-ledeux-medaillee-d-argent-a-20-ans: Downloading webpage
[debug] [FranceTV] Extracting URL: francetv:908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading desktop video JSON
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading mobile video JSON
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading signed hls manifest URL
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading m3u8 information
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading signed hls manifest URL
[FranceTV] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, lang, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[debug] Default format spec: best/bestvideo+bestaudio
[info] 908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3: Downloading 1 format(s): hls-2217-1+hls-audio-aacl-96-Audio_Français-1
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-video=2000000.m3u8", "https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-audio_fre=96000.m3u8"
[download] Destination: -
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel verbose -headers 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.17 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
' -i https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-video=2000000.m3u8 -i https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-audio_fre=96000.m3u8 -c copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -f mpegts -
ffmpeg version 4.4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 11.2.0 (GCC)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --docdir=/usr/doc/ffmpeg-4.4.1 --mandir=/usr/man --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmfx --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librsvg --enable-libsmbclient --enable-libssh --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-postproc --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-sdl2 --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-pthreads --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-debug --enable-libbluray --enable-frei0r --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-libpulse --enable-libvidstab --enable-libwebp --enable-gnutls --arch=x86_64 --enable-pic --extra-cflags='-I/tmp/build/tmp-ffmpeg/ffmpegdeps/usr/include -I/tmp/build/tmp-ffmpeg/ffmpegdeps/usr/include/SDL2 -DRUNTIME_CPUDETECT' --extra-ldflags='-L/tmp/build/tmp-ffmpeg/ffmpegdeps/usr/lib64 -lpthread -ldl -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lusb -ldrm' --pkg-config-flags=--static
  libavutil      56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
  libavcodec     58.134.100 / 58.134.100
  libavformat    58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
  libavdevice    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavfilter     7.110.100 /  7.110.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  9.100 /  5.  9.100
  libswresample   3.  9.100 /  3.  9.100
  libpostproc    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
[tcp @ 0x1e69fc0] Starting connection attempt to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[tcp @ 0x1e69fc0] Successfully connected to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Skip ('#EXT-X-VERSION:5')
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Skip ('## Created with Unified Streaming Platform(version=1.8.3)')
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Skip ('#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS')
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Skip ('#USP-X-TIMESTAMP-MAP:MPEGTS=900000,LOCAL=1970-01-01T00:00:00Z')
[hls @ 0x1e65900] HLS request for url 'https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-video=2000000-1.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Opening 'https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/keys/bfd3.key' for reading
[tcp @ 0x1e78600] Starting connection attempt to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[tcp @ 0x1e78600] Successfully connected to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[AVIOContext @ 0x1e84280] Statistics: 16 bytes read, 0 seeks
[hls @ 0x1e65900] Opening 'crypto+https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-video=2000000-1.ts' for reading
[tcp @ 0x1e7b4c0] Starting connection attempt to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[tcp @ 0x1e7b4c0] Successfully connected to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[h264 @ 0x2253d80] Reinit context to 1280x720, pix_fmt: yuv420p
[hls @ 0x1e65900] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000 microseconds st:0
Input #0, hls, from 'https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-video=2000000.m3u8':
  Duration: 00:00:33.88, start: 10.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
  Program 0 
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), 1 reference frame ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(left), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Metadata:
      variant_bitrate : 0
[tcp @ 0x2250100] Starting connection attempt to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[tcp @ 0x2250100] Successfully connected to 23.77.197.169 port 443
[https @ 0x29a0dc0] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
https://cloudingest.ftven.fr/380e682b62026/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA.ism/ZXhwPTE2NDQzNzU0Nzh+YWNsPSUyZjM4MGU2ODJiNjIwMjYlMmY5MDhmMGQwMC1mY2U2LTQ4OTUtOWQzMy00YTQ0Y2NhZjRmZDNfZnJhbmNlLWRvbXRvbV9UQS5pc20qfmhtYWM9NzllMDE5YWQyMWEwZmIxN2UzMTA3ZTljNTZhYTZiNzc2ZjMxYTcxMTc4N2I2YzA2N2UxN2E3OWE4YTA5YjI5Yw==/908f0d00-fce6-4895-9d33-4a44ccaf4fd3_france-domtom_TA-audio_fre=96000.m3u8: Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)
[AVIOContext @ 0x24874c0] Statistics: 1280544 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x1e7a580] Statistics: 799 bytes read, 0 seeks


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    yt_dlp.main()
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 857, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 847, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3212, in download
    self.__download_wrapper(self.extract_info)(
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3185, in wrapper
    res = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1372, in extract_info
    return self.__extract_info(url, self.get_info_extractor(ie_key), download, extra_info, process)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1381, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1465, in __extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1536, in process_ie_result
    return self.extract_info(
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1372, in extract_info
    return self.__extract_info(url, self.get_info_extractor(ie_key), download, extra_info, process)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1381, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1465, in __extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1517, in process_ie_result
    ie_result = self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2607, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3035, in process_info
    success, real_download = self.dl(temp_filename, info_dict)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2801, in dl
    return fd.download(name, new_info, subtitle)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py", line 440, in download
    ret = self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py", line 68, in real_download
    self.report_error('%s exited with code %d' % (
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py", line 177, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 930, in report_error
    self.trouble(f'{self._format_err("ERROR:", self.Styles.ERROR)} {message}', *args, **kwargs)
  File "/LinuxData/Softs/Youtube/Yt/./yt-dlp/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 860, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 17 (14 by maintainers)

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Most upvoted comments

youtube-dl never had the ability to stream separate video+audio to stdout. I had added the ability to do this in yt-dlp by passing both URLs to ffmpeg at once like ffmpeg -i URL1 -i URL2 ... (which is reverted by this compat option)

When downloading the 2 streams at once for this website, ffmpeg seems to mess up the UA. I am not sure about the exact reason. Could you try opening an issue on ffmpeg?

pukkandan on Apr 24, 2022