release 2014.01.23.1

Correct --max-downloads with --ignore-errors
Clarify update output (Fixes #2205 )
2014-01-23 10:37:34 +01:00 · 2014-01-23 10:36:47 +01:00 · 2014-01-23 10:24:44 +01:00 · 2014-01-23 04:05:58 +01:00 · 2014-01-23 04:04:39 +01:00 · 2014-01-23 03:52:59 +01:00
42 changed files with 1255 additions and 613 deletions
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,193 +14,227 @@ your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
 which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

 # OPTIONS
-    -h, --help                 print this help text and exit
-    --version                  print program version and exit
-    -U, --update               update this program to latest version. Make sure
-                               that you have sufficient permissions (run with
-                               sudo if needed)
-    -i, --ignore-errors        continue on download errors, for example to to
-                               skip unavailable videos in a playlist
-    --abort-on-error           Abort downloading of further videos (in the
-                               playlist or the command line) if an error occurs
-    --dump-user-agent          display the current browser identification
-    --user-agent UA            specify a custom user agent
-    --referer REF              specify a custom referer, use if the video access
-                               is restricted to one domain
-    --list-extractors          List all supported extractors and the URLs they
-                               would handle
-    --extractor-descriptions   Output descriptions of all supported extractors
-    --proxy URL                Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in an
-                               empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection
-    --no-check-certificate     Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.
-    --cache-dir DIR            Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can
-                               store some downloaded information permanently. By
-                               default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache
-                               /youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player
-                               files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are
-                               cached, but that may change.
-    --no-cache-dir             Disable filesystem caching
-    --socket-timeout None      Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
-    --bidi-workaround          Work around terminals that lack bidirectional
-                               text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi
-                               executable in PATH
+    -h, --help                       print this help text and exit
+    --version                        print program version and exit
+    -U, --update                     update this program to latest version. Make
+                                     sure that you have sufficient permissions
+                                     (run with sudo if needed)
+    -i, --ignore-errors              continue on download errors, for example to
+                                     to skip unavailable videos in a playlist
+    --abort-on-error                 Abort downloading of further videos (in the
+                                     playlist or the command line) if an error
+                                     occurs
+    --dump-user-agent                display the current browser identification
+    --user-agent UA                  specify a custom user agent
+    --referer REF                    specify a custom referer, use if the video
+                                     access is restricted to one domain
+    --list-extractors                List all supported extractors and the URLs
+                                     they would handle
+    --extractor-descriptions         Output descriptions of all supported
+                                     extractors
+    --proxy URL                      Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in
+                                     an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
+                                     connection
+    --no-check-certificate           Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.
+    --cache-dir DIR                  Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
+                                     can store some downloaded information
+                                     permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME
+                                     /youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the
+                                     moment, only YouTube player files (for
+                                     videos with obfuscated signatures) are
+                                     cached, but that may change.
+    --no-cache-dir                   Disable filesystem caching
+    --socket-timeout None            Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
+    --bidi-workaround                Work around terminals that lack
+                                     bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
+                                     or fribidi executable in PATH
+    --default-search PREFIX          Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
+                                     example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
+                                     from google videos for  youtube-dl "large
+                                     apple". By default (with value "auto")
+                                     youtube-dl guesses.

 ## Video Selection:
-    --playlist-start NUMBER    playlist video to start at (default is 1)
-    --playlist-end NUMBER      playlist video to end at (default is last)
-    --match-title REGEX        download only matching titles (regex or caseless
-                               sub-string)
-    --reject-title REGEX       skip download for matching titles (regex or
-                               caseless sub-string)
-    --max-downloads NUMBER     Abort after downloading NUMBER files
-    --min-filesize SIZE        Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE
-                               (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
-    --max-filesize SIZE        Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g.
-                               50k or 44.6m)
-    --date DATE                download only videos uploaded in this date
-    --datebefore DATE          download only videos uploaded on or before this
-                               date (i.e. inclusive)
-    --dateafter DATE           download only videos uploaded on or after this
-                               date (i.e. inclusive)
-    --min-views COUNT          Do not download any videos with less than COUNT
-                               views
-    --max-views COUNT          Do not download any videos with more than COUNT
-                               views
-    --no-playlist              download only the currently playing video
-    --age-limit YEARS          download only videos suitable for the given age
-    --download-archive FILE    Download only videos not listed in the archive
-                               file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in
-                               it.
+    --playlist-start NUMBER          playlist video to start at (default is 1)
+    --playlist-end NUMBER            playlist video to end at (default is last)
+    --match-title REGEX              download only matching titles (regex or
+                                     caseless sub-string)
+    --reject-title REGEX             skip download for matching titles (regex or
+                                     caseless sub-string)
+    --max-downloads NUMBER           Abort after downloading NUMBER files
+    --min-filesize SIZE              Do not download any videos smaller than
+                                     SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+    --max-filesize SIZE              Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
+                                     (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+    --date DATE                      download only videos uploaded in this date
+    --datebefore DATE                download only videos uploaded on or before
+                                     this date (i.e. inclusive)
+    --dateafter DATE                 download only videos uploaded on or after
+                                     this date (i.e. inclusive)
+    --min-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with less than
+                                     COUNT views
+    --max-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with more than
+                                     COUNT views
+    --no-playlist                    download only the currently playing video
+    --age-limit YEARS                download only videos suitable for the given
+                                     age
+    --download-archive FILE          Download only videos not listed in the
+                                     archive file. Record the IDs of all
+                                     downloaded videos in it.
+    --include-ads                    Download advertisements as well
+                                     (experimental)
+    --youtube-include-dash-manifest  Try to download the DASH manifest on
+                                     YouTube videos (experimental)

 ## Download Options:
-    -r, --rate-limit LIMIT     maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g.
-                               50K or 4.2M)
-    -R, --retries RETRIES      number of retries (default is 10)
-    --buffer-size SIZE         size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
-                               (default is 1024)
-    --no-resize-buffer         do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By
-                               default, the buffer size is automatically resized
-                               from an initial value of SIZE.
+    -r, --rate-limit LIMIT           maximum download rate in bytes per second
+                                     (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
+    -R, --retries RETRIES            number of retries (default is 10)
+    --buffer-size SIZE               size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
+                                     (default is 1024)
+    --no-resize-buffer               do not automatically adjust the buffer
+                                     size. By default, the buffer size is
+                                     automatically resized from an initial value
+                                     of SIZE.

 ## Filesystem Options:
-    -t, --title                use title in file name (default)
-    --id                       use only video ID in file name
-    -l, --literal              [deprecated] alias of --title
-    -A, --auto-number          number downloaded files starting from 00000
-    -o, --output TEMPLATE      output filename template. Use %(title)s to get
-                               the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name,
-                               %(uploader_id)s for the uploader nickname if
-                               different, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically
-                               incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename
-                               extension, %(format)s for the format description
-                               (like "22 - 1280x720" or "HD"), %(format_id)s for
-                               the unique id of the format (like Youtube's
-                               itags: "137"), %(upload_date)s for the upload
-                               date (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
-                               (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video
-                               id, %(playlist)s for the playlist the video is
-                               in, %(playlist_index)s for the position in the
-                               playlist and %% for a literal percent. Use - to
-                               output to stdout. Can also be used to download to
-                               a different directory, for example with -o '/my/d
-                               ownloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
-    --autonumber-size NUMBER   Specifies the number of digits in %(autonumber)s
-                               when it is present in output filename template or
-                               --auto-number option is given
-    --restrict-filenames       Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and
-                               avoid "&" and spaces in filenames
-    -a, --batch-file FILE      file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
-    --load-info FILE           json file containing the video information
-                               (created with the "--write-json" option)
-    -w, --no-overwrites        do not overwrite files
-    -c, --continue             force resume of partially downloaded files. By
-                               default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if
-                               possible.
-    --no-continue              do not resume partially downloaded files (restart
-                               from beginning)
-    --cookies FILE             file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
-    --no-part                  do not use .part files
-    --no-mtime                 do not use the Last-modified header to set the
-                               file modification time
-    --write-description        write video description to a .description file
-    --write-info-json          write video metadata to a .info.json file
-    --write-annotations        write video annotations to a .annotation file
-    --write-thumbnail          write thumbnail image to disk
+    -t, --title                      use title in file name (default)
+    --id                             use only video ID in file name
+    -l, --literal                    [deprecated] alias of --title
+    -A, --auto-number                number downloaded files starting from 00000
+    -o, --output TEMPLATE            output filename template. Use %(title)s to
+                                     get the title, %(uploader)s for the
+                                     uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the
+                                     uploader nickname if different,
+                                     %(autonumber)s to get an automatically
+                                     incremented number, %(ext)s for the
+                                     filename extension, %(format)s for the
+                                     format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or
+                                     "HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of
+                                     the format (like Youtube's itags: "137"),
+                                     %(upload_date)s for the upload date
+                                     (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
+                                     (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the
+                                     video id, %(playlist)s for the playlist the
+                                     video is in, %(playlist_index)s for the
+                                     position in the playlist and %% for a
+                                     literal percent. Use - to output to stdout.
+                                     Can also be used to download to a different
+                                     directory, for example with -o '/my/downloa
+                                     ds/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
+    --autonumber-size NUMBER         Specifies the number of digits in
+                                     %(autonumber)s when it is present in output
+                                     filename template or --auto-number option
+                                     is given
+    --restrict-filenames             Restrict filenames to only ASCII
+                                     characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
+                                     filenames
+    -a, --batch-file FILE            file containing URLs to download ('-' for
+                                     stdin)
+    --load-info FILE                 json file containing the video information
+                                     (created with the "--write-json" option)
+    -w, --no-overwrites              do not overwrite files
+    -c, --continue                   force resume of partially downloaded files.
+                                     By default, youtube-dl will resume
+                                     downloads if possible.
+    --no-continue                    do not resume partially downloaded files
+                                     (restart from beginning)
+    --cookies FILE                   file to read cookies from and dump cookie
+                                     jar in
+    --no-part                        do not use .part files
+    --no-mtime                       do not use the Last-modified header to set
+                                     the file modification time
+    --write-description              write video description to a .description
+                                     file
+    --write-info-json                write video metadata to a .info.json file
+    --write-annotations              write video annotations to a .annotation
+                                     file
+    --write-thumbnail                write thumbnail image to disk

 ## Verbosity / Simulation Options:
-    -q, --quiet                activates quiet mode
-    -s, --simulate             do not download the video and do not write
-                               anything to disk
-    --skip-download            do not download the video
-    -g, --get-url              simulate, quiet but print URL
-    -e, --get-title            simulate, quiet but print title
-    --get-id                   simulate, quiet but print id
-    --get-thumbnail            simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
-    --get-description          simulate, quiet but print video description
-    --get-duration             simulate, quiet but print video length
-    --get-filename             simulate, quiet but print output filename
-    --get-format               simulate, quiet but print output format
-    -j, --dump-json            simulate, quiet but print JSON information
-    --newline                  output progress bar as new lines
-    --no-progress              do not print progress bar
-    --console-title            display progress in console titlebar
-    -v, --verbose              print various debugging information
-    --dump-intermediate-pages  print downloaded pages to debug problems (very
-                               verbose)
-    --write-pages              Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in
-                               the current directory to debug problems
+    -q, --quiet                      activates quiet mode
+    -s, --simulate                   do not download the video and do not write
+                                     anything to disk
+    --skip-download                  do not download the video
+    -g, --get-url                    simulate, quiet but print URL
+    -e, --get-title                  simulate, quiet but print title
+    --get-id                         simulate, quiet but print id
+    --get-thumbnail                  simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
+    --get-description                simulate, quiet but print video description
+    --get-duration                   simulate, quiet but print video length
+    --get-filename                   simulate, quiet but print output filename
+    --get-format                     simulate, quiet but print output format
+    -j, --dump-json                  simulate, quiet but print JSON information
+    --newline                        output progress bar as new lines
+    --no-progress                    do not print progress bar
+    --console-title                  display progress in console titlebar
+    -v, --verbose                    print various debugging information
+    --dump-intermediate-pages        print downloaded pages to debug problems
+                                     (very verbose)
+    --write-pages                    Write downloaded intermediary pages to
+                                     files in the current directory to debug
+                                     problems
+    --print-traffic                  Display sent and read HTTP traffic

 ## Video Format Options:
-    -f, --format FORMAT        video format code, specify the order of
-                               preference using slashes: "-f 22/17/18". "-f mp4"
-                               and "-f flv" are also supported
-    --all-formats              download all available video formats
-    --prefer-free-formats      prefer free video formats unless a specific one
-                               is requested
-    --max-quality FORMAT       highest quality format to download
-    -F, --list-formats         list all available formats
+    -f, --format FORMAT              video format code, specify the order of
+                                     preference using slashes: "-f 22/17/18".
+                                     "-f mp4" and "-f flv" are also supported.
+                                     You can also use the special names "best",
+                                     "bestaudio", "worst", and "worstaudio"
+    --all-formats                    download all available video formats
+    --prefer-free-formats            prefer free video formats unless a specific
+                                     one is requested
+    --max-quality FORMAT             highest quality format to download
+    -F, --list-formats               list all available formats

 ## Subtitle Options:
-    --write-sub                write subtitle file
-    --write-auto-sub           write automatic subtitle file (youtube only)
-    --all-subs                 downloads all the available subtitles of the
-                               video
-    --list-subs                lists all available subtitles for the video
-    --sub-format FORMAT        subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt] youtube
-                               only)
-    --sub-lang LANGS           languages of the subtitles to download (optional)
-                               separated by commas, use IETF language tags like
-                               'en,pt'
+    --write-sub                      write subtitle file
+    --write-auto-sub                 write automatic subtitle file (youtube
+                                     only)
+    --all-subs                       downloads all the available subtitles of
+                                     the video
+    --list-subs                      lists all available subtitles for the video
+    --sub-format FORMAT              subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt]
+                                     youtube only)
+    --sub-lang LANGS                 languages of the subtitles to download
+                                     (optional) separated by commas, use IETF
+                                     language tags like 'en,pt'

 ## Authentication Options:
-    -u, --username USERNAME    account username
-    -p, --password PASSWORD    account password
-    -n, --netrc                use .netrc authentication data
-    --video-password PASSWORD  video password (vimeo, smotri)
+    -u, --username USERNAME          account username
+    -p, --password PASSWORD          account password
+    -n, --netrc                      use .netrc authentication data
+    --video-password PASSWORD        video password (vimeo, smotri)

 ## Post-processing Options:
-    -x, --extract-audio        convert video files to audio-only files (requires
-                               ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)
-    --audio-format FORMAT      "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or
-                               "wav"; best by default
-    --audio-quality QUALITY    ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification, insert
-                               a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR
-                               or a specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
-    --recode-video FORMAT      Encode the video to another format if necessary
-                               (currently supported: mp4|flv|ogg|webm)
-    -k, --keep-video           keeps the video file on disk after the post-
-                               processing; the video is erased by default
-    --no-post-overwrites       do not overwrite post-processed files; the post-
-                               processed files are overwritten by default
-    --embed-subs               embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4
-                               videos)
-    --add-metadata             write metadata to the video file
-    --xattrs                   write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using
-                               dublin core and xdg standards)
-    --prefer-avconv            Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
-                               postprocessors (default)
-    --prefer-ffmpeg            Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
-                               postprocessors
+    -x, --extract-audio              convert video files to audio-only files
+                                     (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
+                                     avprobe)
+    --audio-format FORMAT            "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a",
+                                     "opus", or "wav"; best by default
+    --audio-quality QUALITY          ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification,
+                                     insert a value between 0 (better) and 9
+                                     (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like
+                                     128K (default 5)
+    --recode-video FORMAT            Encode the video to another format if
+                                     necessary (currently supported:
+                                     mp4|flv|ogg|webm)
+    -k, --keep-video                 keeps the video file on disk after the
+                                     post-processing; the video is erased by
+                                     default
+    --no-post-overwrites             do not overwrite post-processed files; the
+                                     post-processed files are overwritten by
+                                     default
+    --embed-subs                     embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4
+                                     videos)
+    --add-metadata                   write metadata to the video file
+    --xattrs                         write metadata to the video file's xattrs
+                                     (using dublin core and xdg standards)
+    --prefer-avconv                  Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
+                                     postprocessors (default)
+    --prefer-ffmpeg                  Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
+                                     postprocessors

 # CONFIGURATION

--- a/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/test/test_YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python

+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 # Allow direct execution
 import os
 import sys
@@ -30,125 +32,155 @@ class TestFormatSelection(unittest.TestCase):
        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.params['prefer_free_formats'] = True
        formats = [
-            {u'ext': u'webm', u'height': 460},
-            {u'ext': u'mp4',  u'height': 460},
+            {'ext': 'webm', 'height': 460},
+            {'ext': 'mp4',  'height': 460},
        ]
-        info_dict = {u'formats': formats, u'extractor': u'test'}
+        info_dict = {'formats': formats, 'extractor': 'test'}
        yie = YoutubeIE(ydl)
        yie._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'ext'], u'webm')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'webm')

        # Different resolution => download best quality (mp4)
        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.params['prefer_free_formats'] = True
        formats = [
-            {u'ext': u'webm', u'height': 720},
-            {u'ext': u'mp4', u'height': 1080},
+            {'ext': 'webm', 'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'mp4', 'height': 1080},
        ]
-        info_dict[u'formats'] = formats
+        info_dict['formats'] = formats
        yie = YoutubeIE(ydl)
        yie._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'ext'], u'mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'mp4')

        # No prefer_free_formats => prefer mp4 and flv for greater compatibilty
        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.params['prefer_free_formats'] = False
        formats = [
-            {u'ext': u'webm', u'height': 720},
-            {u'ext': u'mp4', u'height': 720},
-            {u'ext': u'flv', u'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'webm', 'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'mp4', 'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'flv', 'height': 720},
        ]
-        info_dict[u'formats'] = formats
+        info_dict['formats'] = formats
        yie = YoutubeIE(ydl)
        yie._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'ext'], u'mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'mp4')

        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.params['prefer_free_formats'] = False
        formats = [
-            {u'ext': u'flv', u'height': 720},
-            {u'ext': u'webm', u'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'flv', 'height': 720},
+            {'ext': 'webm', 'height': 720},
        ]
-        info_dict[u'formats'] = formats
+        info_dict['formats'] = formats
        yie = YoutubeIE(ydl)
        yie._sort_formats(info_dict['formats'])
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'ext'], u'flv')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['ext'], 'flv')

    def test_format_limit(self):
        formats = [
-            {u'format_id': u'meh', u'url': u'http://example.com/meh', 'preference': 1},
-            {u'format_id': u'good', u'url': u'http://example.com/good', 'preference': 2},
-            {u'format_id': u'great', u'url': u'http://example.com/great', 'preference': 3},
-            {u'format_id': u'excellent', u'url': u'http://example.com/exc', 'preference': 4},
+            {'format_id': 'meh', 'url': 'http://example.com/meh', 'preference': 1},
+            {'format_id': 'good', 'url': 'http://example.com/good', 'preference': 2},
+            {'format_id': 'great', 'url': 'http://example.com/great', 'preference': 3},
+            {'format_id': 'excellent', 'url': 'http://example.com/exc', 'preference': 4},
        ]
        info_dict = {
-            u'formats': formats, u'extractor': u'test', 'id': 'testvid'}
+            'formats': formats, 'extractor': 'test', 'id': 'testvid'}

        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict)
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'format_id'], u'excellent')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')

        ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'good'})
        assert ydl.params['format_limit'] == 'good'
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'format_id'], u'good')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'good')

        ydl = YDL({'format_limit': 'great', 'format': 'all'})
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0][u'format_id'], u'meh')
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[1][u'format_id'], u'good')
-        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[2][u'format_id'], u'great')
+        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]['format_id'], 'meh')
+        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[1]['format_id'], 'good')
+        self.assertEqual(ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[2]['format_id'], 'great')
        self.assertTrue('3' in ydl.msgs[0])

        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.params['format_limit'] = 'excellent'
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded[u'format_id'], u'excellent')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'excellent')

    def test_format_selection(self):
        formats = [
-            {u'format_id': u'35', u'ext': u'mp4', 'preference': 1},
-            {u'format_id': u'45', u'ext': u'webm', 'preference': 2},
-            {u'format_id': u'47', u'ext': u'webm', 'preference': 3},
-            {u'format_id': u'2', u'ext': u'flv', 'preference': 4},
+            {'format_id': '35', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 1},
+            {'format_id': '45', 'ext': 'webm', 'preference': 2},
+            {'format_id': '47', 'ext': 'webm', 'preference': 3},
+            {'format_id': '2', 'ext': 'flv', 'preference': 4},
        ]
-        info_dict = {u'formats': formats, u'extractor': u'test'}
+        info_dict = {'formats': formats, 'extractor': 'test'}

-        ydl = YDL({'format': u'20/47'})
+        ydl = YDL({'format': '20/47'})
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], u'47')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], '47')

-        ydl = YDL({'format': u'20/71/worst'})
+        ydl = YDL({'format': '20/71/worst'})
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], u'35')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], '35')

        ydl = YDL()
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], u'2')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], '2')

-        ydl = YDL({'format': u'webm/mp4'})
+        ydl = YDL({'format': 'webm/mp4'})
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], u'47')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], '47')

-        ydl = YDL({'format': u'3gp/40/mp4'})
+        ydl = YDL({'format': '3gp/40/mp4'})
        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
-        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], u'35')
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], '35')
+
+    def test_format_selection_audio(self):
+        formats = [
+            {'format_id': 'audio-low', 'ext': 'webm', 'preference': 1, 'vcodec': 'none'},
+            {'format_id': 'audio-mid', 'ext': 'webm', 'preference': 2, 'vcodec': 'none'},
+            {'format_id': 'audio-high', 'ext': 'flv', 'preference': 3, 'vcodec': 'none'},
+            {'format_id': 'vid', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 4},
+        ]
+        info_dict = {'formats': formats, 'extractor': 'test'}
+
+        ydl = YDL({'format': 'bestaudio'})
+        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
+        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'audio-high')
+
+        ydl = YDL({'format': 'worstaudio'})
+        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
+        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'audio-low')
+
+        formats = [
+            {'format_id': 'vid-low', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 1},
+            {'format_id': 'vid-high', 'ext': 'mp4', 'preference': 2},
+        ]
+        info_dict = {'formats': formats, 'extractor': 'test'}
+
+        ydl = YDL({'format': 'bestaudio/worstaudio/best'})
+        ydl.process_ie_result(info_dict.copy())
+        downloaded = ydl.downloaded_info_dicts[0]
+        self.assertEqual(downloaded['format_id'], 'vid-high')

    def test_youtube_format_selection(self):
        order = [
@@ -200,17 +232,17 @@ class TestFormatSelection(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_prepare_filename(self):
        info = {
-            u'id': u'1234',
-            u'ext': u'mp4',
-            u'width': None,
+            'id': '1234',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'width': None,
        }
        def fname(templ):
            ydl = YoutubeDL({'outtmpl': templ})
            return ydl.prepare_filename(info)
-        self.assertEqual(fname(u'%(id)s.%(ext)s'), u'1234.mp4')
-        self.assertEqual(fname(u'%(id)s-%(width)s.%(ext)s'), u'1234-NA.mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('%(id)s.%(ext)s'), '1234.mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('%(id)s-%(width)s.%(ext)s'), '1234-NA.mp4')
        # Replace missing fields with 'NA'
-        self.assertEqual(fname(u'%(uploader_date)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'), u'NA-1234.mp4')
+        self.assertEqual(fname('%(uploader_date)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'), 'NA-1234.mp4')


 if __name__ == '__main__':
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ from youtube_dl.utils import (
    DateRange,
    encodeFilename,
    find_xpath_attr,
+    fix_xml_ampersands,
    get_meta_content,
    orderedSet,
+    PagedList,
    parse_duration,
    sanitize_filename,
    shell_quote,
@@ -200,5 +202,39 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
        self.assertEqual(parse_duration('9:12:43'), 33163)
        self.assertEqual(parse_duration('x:y'), None)

+    def test_fix_xml_ampersands(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            fix_xml_ampersands('"&x=y&z=a'), '"&amp;x=y&amp;z=a')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            fix_xml_ampersands('"&amp;x=y&wrong;&z=a'),
+            '"&amp;x=y&amp;wrong;&amp;z=a')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            fix_xml_ampersands('&amp;&apos;&gt;&lt;&quot;'),
+            '&amp;&apos;&gt;&lt;&quot;')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            fix_xml_ampersands('&#1234;&#x1abC;'), '&#1234;&#x1abC;')
+        self.assertEqual(fix_xml_ampersands('&#&#'), '&amp;#&amp;#')
+
+    def test_paged_list(self):
+        def testPL(size, pagesize, sliceargs, expected):
+            def get_page(pagenum):
+                firstid = pagenum * pagesize
+                upto = min(size, pagenum * pagesize + pagesize)
+                for i in range(firstid, upto):
+                    yield i
+
+            pl = PagedList(get_page, pagesize)
+            got = pl.getslice(*sliceargs)
+            self.assertEqual(got, expected)
+
+        testPL(5, 2, (), [0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
+        testPL(5, 2, (1,), [1, 2, 3, 4])
+        testPL(5, 2, (2,), [2, 3, 4])
+        testPL(5, 2, (4,), [4])
+        testPL(5, 2, (0, 3), [0, 1, 2])
+        testPL(5, 2, (1, 4), [1, 2, 3])
+        testPL(5, 2, (2, 99), [2, 3, 4])
+        testPL(5, 2, (20, 99), [])
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ from .utils import (
    locked_file,
    make_HTTPS_handler,
    MaxDownloadsReached,
+    PagedList,
    PostProcessingError,
    platform_name,
    preferredencoding,
@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
    bidi_workaround:   Work around buggy terminals without bidirectional text
                       support, using fridibi
    debug_printtraffic:Print out sent and received HTTP traffic
+    include_ads:       Download ads as well
+    default_search:    Prepend this string if an input url is not valid.
+                       'auto' for elaborate guessing

    The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
    the FileDownloader:
@@ -513,6 +517,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            except ExtractorError as de: # An error we somewhat expected
                self.report_error(compat_str(de), de.format_traceback())
                break
+            except MaxDownloadsReached:
+                raise
            except Exception as e:
                if self.params.get('ignoreerrors', False):
                    self.report_error(compat_str(e), tb=compat_str(traceback.format_exc()))
@@ -575,19 +581,27 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):

            playlist_results = []

-            n_all_entries = len(ie_result['entries'])
            playliststart = self.params.get('playliststart', 1) - 1
            playlistend = self.params.get('playlistend', None)
            # For backwards compatibility, interpret -1 as whole list
            if playlistend == -1:
                playlistend = None

-            entries = ie_result['entries'][playliststart:playlistend]
-            n_entries = len(entries)
-
-            self.to_screen(
-                "[%s] playlist '%s': Collected %d video ids (downloading %d of them)" %
-                (ie_result['extractor'], playlist, n_all_entries, n_entries))
+            if isinstance(ie_result['entries'], list):
+                n_all_entries = len(ie_result['entries'])
+                entries = ie_result['entries'][playliststart:playlistend]
+                n_entries = len(entries)
+                self.to_screen(
+                    "[%s] playlist %s: Collected %d video ids (downloading %d of them)" %
+                    (ie_result['extractor'], playlist, n_all_entries, n_entries))
+            else:
+                assert isinstance(ie_result['entries'], PagedList)
+                entries = ie_result['entries'].getslice(
+                    playliststart, playlistend)
+                n_entries = len(entries)
+                self.to_screen(
+                    "[%s] playlist %s: Downloading %d videos" %
+                    (ie_result['extractor'], playlist, n_entries))

            for i, entry in enumerate(entries, 1):
                self.to_screen('[download] Downloading video #%s of %s' % (i, n_entries))
@@ -634,6 +648,18 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            return available_formats[-1]
        elif format_spec == 'worst':
            return available_formats[0]
+        elif format_spec == 'bestaudio':
+            audio_formats = [
+                f for f in available_formats
+                if f.get('vcodec') == 'none']
+            if audio_formats:
+                return audio_formats[-1]
+        elif format_spec == 'worstaudio':
+            audio_formats = [
+                f for f in available_formats
+                if f.get('vcodec') == 'none']
+            if audio_formats:
+                return audio_formats[0]
        else:
            extensions = ['mp4', 'flv', 'webm', '3gp']
            if format_spec in extensions:
@@ -698,7 +724,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            self.list_formats(info_dict)
            return

-        req_format = self.params.get('format', 'best')
+        req_format = self.params.get('format')
        if req_format is None:
            req_format = 'best'
        formats_to_download = []
@@ -908,6 +934,14 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                    if info_dict.get('requested_formats') is not None:
                        downloaded = []
                        success = True
+                        merger = FFmpegMergerPP(self)
+                        if not merger._get_executable():
+                            postprocessors = []
+                            self.report_warning('You have requested multiple '
+                                'formats but ffmpeg or avconv are not installed.'
+                                ' The formats won\'t be merged')
+                        else:
+                            postprocessors = [merger]
                        for f in info_dict['requested_formats']:
                            new_info = dict(info_dict)
                            new_info.update(f)
@@ -916,7 +950,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                            downloaded.append(fname)
                            partial_success = dl(fname, new_info)
                            success = success and partial_success
-                        info_dict['__postprocessors'] = [FFmpegMergerPP(self)]
+                        info_dict['__postprocessors'] = postprocessors
                        info_dict['__files_to_merge'] = downloaded
                    else:
                        # Just a single file
@@ -1083,6 +1117,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                res += 'audio'
            if fdict.get('abr') is not None:
                res += '@%3dk' % fdict['abr']
+            if fdict.get('asr') is not None:
+                res += ' (%5dHz)' % fdict['asr']
            if fdict.get('filesize') is not None:
                if res:
                    res += ', '
--- a/youtube_dl/init.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/init.py
@@ -199,7 +199,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    general.add_option(
        '--bidi-workaround', dest='bidi_workaround', action='store_true',
        help=u'Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH')
-
+    general.add_option('--default-search',
+            dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
+            help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for  youtube-dl "large apple". By default (with value "auto") youtube-dl guesses.')

    selection.add_option(
        '--playlist-start',
@@ -238,7 +240,14 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    selection.add_option('--download-archive', metavar='FILE',
                         dest='download_archive',
                         help='Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.')
-
+    selection.add_option(
+        '--include-ads', dest='include_ads',
+        action='store_true',
+        help='Download advertisements as well (experimental)')
+    selection.add_option(
+        '--youtube-include-dash-manifest', action='store_true',
+        dest='youtube_include_dash_manifest', default=False,
+        help='Try to download the DASH manifest on YouTube videos (experimental)')

    authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
            dest='username', metavar='USERNAME', help='account username')
@@ -251,8 +260,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):


    video_format.add_option('-f', '--format',
-            action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
-            help='video format code, specify the order of preference using slashes: "-f 22/17/18". "-f mp4" and "-f flv" are also supported')
+            action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', default=None,
+            help='video format code, specify the order of preference using slashes: "-f 22/17/18". "-f mp4" and "-f flv" are also supported. You can also use the special names "best", "bestaudio", "worst", and "worstaudio"')
    video_format.add_option('--all-formats',
            action='store_const', dest='format', help='download all available video formats', const='all')
    video_format.add_option('--prefer-free-formats',
@@ -343,7 +352,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
            help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
    verbosity.add_option('--print-traffic',
            dest='debug_printtraffic', action='store_true', default=False,
-            help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
+            help='Display sent and read HTTP traffic')
+

    filesystem.add_option('-t', '--title',
            action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='use title in file name (default)', default=False)
@@ -616,6 +626,12 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
        date = DateRange.day(opts.date)
    else:
        date = DateRange(opts.dateafter, opts.datebefore)
+    if opts.default_search not in ('auto', None) and ':' not in opts.default_search:
+        parser.error(u'--default-search invalid; did you forget a colon (:) at the end?')
+
+    # Do not download videos when there are audio-only formats
+    if opts.extractaudio and not opts.keepvideo and opts.format is None:
+        opts.format = 'bestaudio/best'

    # --all-sub automatically sets --write-sub if --write-auto-sub is not given
    # this was the old behaviour if only --all-sub was given.
@@ -716,6 +732,9 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
        'bidi_workaround': opts.bidi_workaround,
        'debug_printtraffic': opts.debug_printtraffic,
        'prefer_ffmpeg': opts.prefer_ffmpeg,
+        'include_ads': opts.include_ads,
+        'default_search': opts.default_search,
+        'youtube_include_dash_manifest': opts.youtube_include_dash_manifest,
    }

    with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/init.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/init.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from .depositfiles import DepositFilesIE
 from .dotsub import DotsubIE
 from .dreisat import DreiSatIE
 from .defense import DefenseGouvFrIE
+from .dropbox import DropboxIE
 from .ebaumsworld import EbaumsWorldIE
 from .ehow import EHowIE
 from .eighttracks import EightTracksIE
@@ -118,7 +119,10 @@ from .mit import TechTVMITIE, MITIE
 from .mixcloud import MixcloudIE
 from .mpora import MporaIE
 from .mofosex import MofosexIE
-from .mtv import MTVIE
+from .mtv import (
+    MTVIE,
+    MTVIggyIE,
+)
 from .muzu import MuzuTVIE
 from .myspace import MySpaceIE
 from .myspass import MySpassIE
@@ -132,6 +136,7 @@ from .nhl import NHLIE, NHLVideocenterIE
 from .niconico import NiconicoIE
 from .ninegag import NineGagIE
 from .novamov import NovamovIE
+from .nowness import NownessIE
 from .nowvideo import NowVideoIE
 from .ooyala import OoyalaIE
 from .orf import ORFIE
@@ -151,6 +156,7 @@ from .rottentomatoes import RottenTomatoesIE
 from .roxwel import RoxwelIE
 from .rtlnow import RTLnowIE
 from .rutube import RutubeIE
+from .servingsys import ServingSysIE
 from .sina import SinaIE
 from .slashdot import SlashdotIE
 from .slideshare import SlideshareIE
@@ -169,6 +175,7 @@ from .southparkstudios import (
 from .space import SpaceIE
 from .spankwire import SpankwireIE
 from .spiegel import SpiegelIE
+from .spike import SpikeIE
 from .stanfordoc import StanfordOpenClassroomIE
 from .statigram import StatigramIE
 from .steam import SteamIE
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
    compat_urllib_parse,
    find_xpath_attr,
+    fix_xml_ampersands,
    compat_urlparse,
    compat_str,
    compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_parse_qs,

    ExtractorError,
    unsmuggle_url,
@@ -83,17 +85,33 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
                            lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
        # Fix up some stupid XML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1608
        object_str = object_str.replace('<--', '<!--')
+        object_str = fix_xml_ampersands(object_str)

        object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
-        assert 'BrightcoveExperience' in object_doc.attrib['class']
-        params = {
-            'playerID': find_xpath_attr(object_doc, './param', 'name', 'playerID').attrib['value'],
-        }
+
+        fv_el = find_xpath_attr(object_doc, './param', 'name', 'flashVars')
+        if fv_el is not None:
+            flashvars = dict(
+                (k, v[0])
+                for k, v in compat_parse_qs(fv_el.attrib['value']).items())
+        else:
+            flashvars = {}
+
        def find_param(name):
+            if name in flashvars:
+                return flashvars[name]
            node = find_xpath_attr(object_doc, './param', 'name', name)
            if node is not None:
                return node.attrib['value']
            return None
+
+        params = {}
+
+        playerID = find_param('playerID')
+        if playerID is None:
+            raise ExtractorError('Cannot find player ID')
+        params['playerID'] = playerID
+
        playerKey = find_param('playerKey')
        # Not all pages define this value
        if playerKey is not None:
@@ -114,8 +132,12 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
        if it can't be found
        """
        m_brightcove = re.search(
-            r'<object[^>]+?class=([\'"])[^>]*?BrightcoveExperience.*?\1.+?</object>',
-            webpage, re.DOTALL)
+            r'''(?sx)<object
+            (?:
+                [^>]+?class=([\'"])[^>]*?BrightcoveExperience.*?\1 |
+                [^>]*?>\s*<param\s+name="movie"\s+value="https?://[^/]*brightcove\.com/
+            ).+?</object>''',
+            webpage)
        if m_brightcove is not None:
            return cls._build_brighcove_url(m_brightcove.group())
        else:
@@ -156,6 +178,7 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
        info = self._search_regex(r'var experienceJSON = ({.*?});', webpage, 'json')
        info = json.loads(info)['data']
        video_info = info['programmedContent']['videoPlayer']['mediaDTO']
+        video_info['_youtubedl_adServerURL'] = info.get('adServerURL')

        return self._extract_video_info(video_info)

@@ -175,7 +198,7 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _extract_video_info(self, video_info):
        info = {
            'id': compat_str(video_info['id']),
-            'title': video_info['displayName'],
+            'title': video_info['displayName'].strip(),
            'description': video_info.get('shortDescription'),
            'thumbnail': video_info.get('videoStillURL') or video_info.get('thumbnailURL'),
            'uploader': video_info.get('publisherName'),
@@ -193,6 +216,23 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
            info.update({
                'url': video_info['FLVFullLengthURL'],
            })
-        else:
+
+        if self._downloader.params.get('include_ads', False):
+            adServerURL = video_info.get('_youtubedl_adServerURL')
+            if adServerURL:
+                ad_info = {
+                    '_type': 'url',
+                    'url': adServerURL,
+                }
+                if 'url' in info:
+                    return {
+                        '_type': 'playlist',
+                        'title': info['title'],
+                        'entries': [ad_info, info],
+                    }
+                else:
+                    return ad_info
+
+        if 'url' not in info and not info.get('formats'):
            raise ExtractorError('Unable to extract video url for %s' % info['id'])
        return info
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/clipsyndicate.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/clipsyndicate.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import re
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
    find_xpath_attr,
-    fix_xml_all_ampersand,
+    fix_xml_ampersands
 )


@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class ClipsyndicateIE(InfoExtractor):
        pdoc = self._download_xml(
            'http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/osmf/playlist?%s' % flvars,
            video_id, u'Downloading video info',
-            transform_source=fix_xml_all_ampersand) 
+            transform_source=fix_xml_ampersands)

        track_doc = pdoc.find('trackList/track')
        def find_param(name):
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ class CNNIE(InfoExtractor):
        },
    },
    {
-        u"url": u"http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/08/21/sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29",
-        u"file": u"us_2013_08_21_sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology.mp4",
-        u"md5": u"b5cc60c60a3477d185af8f19a2a26f4e",
-        u"info_dict": {
-            u"title": "Student's epic speech stuns new freshmen",
-            u"description": "A Georgia Tech student welcomes the incoming freshmen with an epic speech backed by music from \"2001: A Space Odyssey.\""
+        "url": "http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/08/21/sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29",
+        "file": "us_2013_08_21_sot-student-gives-epic-speech.georgia-institute-of-technology.mp4",
+        "md5": "b5cc60c60a3477d185af8f19a2a26f4e",
+        "info_dict": {
+            "title": "Student's epic speech stuns new freshmen",
+            "description": "A Georgia Tech student welcomes the incoming freshmen with an epic speech backed by music from \"2001: A Space Odyssey.\"",
+            "upload_date": "20130821",
        }
    }]

--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
@@ -15,30 +17,22 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://(?:www.)?comedycentral.com/
        (video-clips|episodes|cc-studios|video-collections)
        /(?P<title>.*)'''
-    _FEED_URL = u'http://comedycentral.com/feeds/mrss/'
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://comedycentral.com/feeds/mrss/'

    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/kllhuv/stand-up-greg-fitzsimmons--uncensored---too-good-of-a-mother',
-        u'md5': u'4167875aae411f903b751a21f357f1ee',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'id': u'cef0cbb3-e776-4bc9-b62e-8016deccb354',
-            u'ext': u'mp4',
-            u'title': u'Uncensored - Greg Fitzsimmons - Too Good of a Mother',
-            u'description': u'After a certain point, breastfeeding becomes c**kblocking.',
+        'url': 'http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/kllhuv/stand-up-greg-fitzsimmons--uncensored---too-good-of-a-mother',
+        'md5': '4167875aae411f903b751a21f357f1ee',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'cef0cbb3-e776-4bc9-b62e-8016deccb354',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'CC:Stand-Up|Greg Fitzsimmons: Life on Stage|Uncensored - Too Good of a Mother',
+            'description': 'After a certain point, breastfeeding becomes c**kblocking.',
        },
    }

-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        title = mobj.group('title')
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, title)
-        mgid = self._search_regex(r'data-mgid="(?P<mgid>mgid:.*?)"',
-                                  webpage, u'mgid')
-        return self._get_videos_info(mgid)
-

 class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_DESC = u'The Daily Show / Colbert Report'
+    IE_DESC = 'The Daily Show / Colbert Report'
    # urls can be abbreviations like :thedailyshow or :colbert
    # urls for episodes like:
    # or urls for clips like: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-december-10-2012/any-given-gun-day
@@ -55,14 +49,14 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
                              extended-interviews/(?P<interID>[0-9]+)/playlist_tds_extended_(?P<interview_title>.*?)/.*?)))
                     $"""
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-13-2012/kristen-stewart',
-        u'file': u'422212.mp4',
-        u'md5': u'4e2f5cb088a83cd8cdb7756132f9739d',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"upload_date": u"20121214", 
-            u"description": u"Kristen Stewart", 
-            u"uploader": u"thedailyshow", 
-            u"title": u"thedailyshow-kristen-stewart part 1"
+        'url': 'http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-13-2012/kristen-stewart',
+        'file': '422212.mp4',
+        'md5': '4e2f5cb088a83cd8cdb7756132f9739d',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "upload_date": "20121214",
+            "description": "Kristen Stewart",
+            "uploader": "thedailyshow",
+            "title": "thedailyshow-kristen-stewart part 1"
        }
    }

@@ -94,20 +88,20 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _transform_rtmp_url(rtmp_video_url):
        m = re.match(r'^rtmpe?://.*?/(?P<finalid>gsp.comedystor/.*)$', rtmp_video_url)
        if not m:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot transform RTMP url')
+            raise ExtractorError('Cannot transform RTMP url')
        base = 'http://mtvnmobile.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/_pxn=1+_pxI0=Ripod-h264+_pxL0=undefined+_pxM0=+_pxK=18639+_pxE=mp4/44620/mtvnorigin/'
        return base + m.group('finalid')

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
        if mobj is None:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+            raise ExtractorError('Invalid URL: %s' % url)

        if mobj.group('shortname'):
            if mobj.group('shortname') in ('tds', 'thedailyshow'):
-                url = u'http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'
+                url = 'http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'
            else:
-                url = u'http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/'
+                url = 'http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/'
            mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
            assert mobj is not None

@@ -133,9 +127,9 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
            url = htmlHandle.geturl()
            mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
            if mobj is None:
-                raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid redirected URL: ' + url)
+                raise ExtractorError('Invalid redirected URL: ' + url)
            if mobj.group('episode') == '':
-                raise ExtractorError(u'Redirected URL is still not specific: ' + url)
+                raise ExtractorError('Redirected URL is still not specific: ' + url)
            epTitle = mobj.group('episode')

        mMovieParams = re.findall('(?:<param name="movie" value="|var url = ")(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*(?:episode|video).*?:.*?))"', webpage)
@@ -147,15 +141,15 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):

            altMovieParams = re.findall('data-mgid="([^"]*(?:episode|video).*?:.*?)"', webpage)
            if len(altMovieParams) == 0:
-                raise ExtractorError(u'unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
+                raise ExtractorError('unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
            else:
                mMovieParams = [("http://media.mtvnservices.com/" + altMovieParams[0], altMovieParams[0])]

        uri = mMovieParams[0][1]
        indexUrl = 'http://shadow.comedycentral.com/feeds/video_player/mrss/?' + compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'uri': uri})
        idoc = self._download_xml(indexUrl, epTitle,
-                                          u'Downloading show index',
-                                          u'unable to download episode index')
+                                          'Downloading show index',
+                                          'unable to download episode index')

        results = []

@@ -170,7 +164,7 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
            configUrl = ('http://www.comedycentral.com/global/feeds/entertainment/media/mediaGenEntertainment.jhtml?' +
                        compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'uri': mediaId}))
            cdoc = self._download_xml(configUrl, epTitle,
-                                               u'Downloading configuration for %s' % shortMediaId)
+                                               'Downloading configuration for %s' % shortMediaId)

            turls = []
            for rendition in cdoc.findall('.//rendition'):
@@ -178,7 +172,7 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
                turls.append(finfo)

            if len(turls) == 0:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download ' + mediaId + ': No videos found')
+                self._downloader.report_error('unable to download ' + mediaId + ': No videos found')
                continue

            formats = []
@@ -192,7 +186,7 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
                    'width': w,
                })

-            effTitle = showId + u'-' + epTitle + u' part ' + compat_str(partNum+1)
+            effTitle = showId + '-' + epTitle + ' part ' + compat_str(partNum+1)
            results.append({
                'id': shortMediaId,
                'formats': formats,
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import base64
+import hashlib
 import json
 import os
 import re
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                    * tbr        Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
                    * abr        Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
                    * acodec     Name of the audio codec in use
+                    * asr        Audio sampling rate in Hertz
                    * vbr        Average video bitrate in KBit/s
                    * vcodec     Name of the video codec in use
                    * filesize   The number of bytes, if known in advance
@@ -219,6 +221,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                          webpage_bytes[:1024])
            if m:
                encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+            elif webpage_bytes.startswith(b'\xff\xfe'):
+                encoding = 'utf-16'
            else:
                encoding = 'utf-8'
        if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):
@@ -234,6 +238,9 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                url = url_or_request.get_full_url()
            except AttributeError:
                url = url_or_request
+            if len(url) > 200:
+                h = u'___' + hashlib.md5(url).hexdigest()
+                url = url[:200 - len(h)] + h
            raw_filename = ('%s_%s.dump' % (video_id, url))
            filename = sanitize_filename(raw_filename, restricted=True)
            self.to_screen(u'Saving request to ' + filename)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/cspan.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/cspan.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from ..utils import (


 class CSpanIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'http://www\.c-spanvideo\.org/program/(.*)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://(?:www\.)?c-spanvideo\.org/program/(?P<name>.*)'
    IE_DESC = 'C-SPAN'
    _TEST = {
        'url': 'http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HolderonV',
@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ class CSpanIE(InfoExtractor):
            'title': 'Attorney General Eric Holder on Voting Rights Act Decision',
            'description': 'Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to reporters following the Supreme Court decision in [Shelby County v. Holder] in which the court ruled that the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act could not be enforced until Congress established new guidelines for review.',
        },
+        'skip': 'Regularly fails on travis, for unknown reasons',
    }

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        prog_name = mobj.group(1)
+        prog_name = mobj.group('name')
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, prog_name)
-        video_id = self._search_regex(r'programid=(.*?)&', webpage, 'video id')
+        video_id = self._search_regex(r'prog(?:ram)?id=(.*?)&', webpage, 'video id')

        title = self._html_search_regex(
            r'<!-- title -->\n\s*<h1[^>]*>(.*?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/d8.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/d8.py
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from .canalplus import CanalplusIE


 class D8IE(CanalplusIE):
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.d8\.tv/.*?/(?P<path>.*)'
    _VIDEO_INFO_TEMPLATE = 'http://service.canal-plus.com/video/rest/getVideosLiees/d8/%s'
-    IE_NAME = u'd8.tv'
+    IE_NAME = 'd8.tv'

    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.d8.tv/d8-docs-mags/pid6589-d8-campagne-intime.html',
-        u'file': u'966289.flv',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'title': u'Campagne intime - Documentaire exceptionnel',
-            u'description': u'md5:d2643b799fb190846ae09c61e59a859f',
-            u'upload_date': u'20131108',
+        'url': 'http://www.d8.tv/d8-docs-mags/pid6589-d8-campagne-intime.html',
+        'file': '966289.flv',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': 'Campagne intime - Documentaire exceptionnel',
+            'description': 'md5:d2643b799fb190846ae09c61e59a859f',
+            'upload_date': '20131108',
        },
-        u'params': {
+        'params': {
            # rtmp
-            u'skip_download': True,
+            'skip_download': True,
        },
+        'skip': 'videos get deleted after a while',
    }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/dropbox.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/dropbox.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import os.path
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class DropboxIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?dropbox[.]com/s/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9]{15})/(?P<title>[^?#]*)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/mcnzehi9wo55th4/20131219_085616.mp4',
+        'file': 'mcnzehi9wo55th4.mp4',
+        'md5': 'f6d65b1b326e82fd7ab7720bea3dacae',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': '20131219_085616'
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        title = os.path.splitext(mobj.group('title'))[0]
+        video_url = url + '?dl=1'
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'url': video_url,
+        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/facebook.py
@@ -17,7 +17,12 @@ from ..utils import (
 class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
    """Information Extractor for Facebook"""

-    _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?facebook\.com/(?:[^#?]*#!/)?(?:video/video|photo)\.php\?(?:.*?)v=(?P<ID>\d+)(?:.*)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+        (?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?facebook\.com/
+        (?:[^#?]*\#!/)?
+        (?:video/video\.php|photo\.php|video/embed)\?(?:.*?)
+        (?:v|video_id)=(?P<id>[0-9]+)
+        (?:.*)'''
    _LOGIN_URL = 'https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fhome.php&login_attempt=1'
    _CHECKPOINT_URL = 'https://www.facebook.com/checkpoint/?next=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fhome.php&_fb_noscript=1'
    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'facebook'
@@ -90,7 +95,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        if mobj is None:
            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-        video_id = mobj.group('ID')
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')

        url = 'https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=%s' % video_id
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/gamespot.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/gamespot.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class GameSpotIE(InfoExtractor):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        page_id = mobj.group('page_id')
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, page_id)
-        data_video_json = self._search_regex(r'data-video=\'(.*?)\'', webpage, u'data video')
+        data_video_json = self._search_regex(r'data-video=["\'](.*?)["\']', webpage, 'data video')
        data_video = json.loads(unescapeHTML(data_video_json))

        # Transform the manifest url to a link to the mp4 files
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class GameSpotIE(InfoExtractor):
        f4m_url = data_video['videoStreams']['f4m_stream']
        f4m_path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(f4m_url).path
        QUALITIES_RE = r'((,\d+)+,?)'
-        qualities = self._search_regex(QUALITIES_RE, f4m_path, u'qualities').strip(',').split(',')
+        qualities = self._search_regex(QUALITIES_RE, f4m_path, 'qualities').strip(',').split(',')
        http_path = f4m_path[1:].split('/', 1)[1]
        http_template = re.sub(QUALITIES_RE, r'%s', http_path)
        http_template = http_template.replace('.csmil/manifest.f4m', '')
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/gametrailers.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/gametrailers.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import re
+from __future__ import unicode_literals

 from .mtv import MTVServicesInfoExtractor

@@ -6,22 +6,13 @@ from .mtv import MTVServicesInfoExtractor
 class GametrailersIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'http://www\.gametrailers\.com/(?P<type>videos|reviews|full-episodes)/(?P<id>.*?)/(?P<title>.*)'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/zbvr8i/mirror-s-edge-2-e3-2013--debut-trailer',
-        u'file': u'70e9a5d7-cf25-4a10-9104-6f3e7342ae0d.mp4',
-        u'md5': u'4c8e67681a0ea7ec241e8c09b3ea8cf7',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'title': u'E3 2013: Debut Trailer',
-            u'description': u'Faith is back!  Check out the World Premiere trailer for Mirror\'s Edge 2 straight from the EA Press Conference at E3 2013!',
+        'url': 'http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/zbvr8i/mirror-s-edge-2-e3-2013--debut-trailer',
+        'file': '70e9a5d7-cf25-4a10-9104-6f3e7342ae0d.mp4',
+        'md5': '4c8e67681a0ea7ec241e8c09b3ea8cf7',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': 'Mirror\'s Edge 2|E3 2013: Debut Trailer',
+            'description': 'Faith is back!  Check out the World Premiere trailer for Mirror\'s Edge 2 straight from the EA Press Conference at E3 2013!',
        },
    }

    _FEED_URL = 'http://www.gametrailers.com/feeds/mrss'
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        mgid = self._search_regex([r'data-video="(?P<mgid>mgid:.*?)"',
-                                   r'data-contentId=\'(?P<mgid>mgid:.*?)\''],
-                                  webpage, u'mgid')
-        return self._get_videos_info(mgid)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
        # ooyala video
        {
            'url': 'http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/norwegian-dj-cashmere-cat-goes-spartan-on-with-me-premiere-20131219',
+            'file': 'BwY2RxaTrTkslxOfcan0UCf0YqyvWysJ.mp4',
            'md5': '5644c6ca5d5782c1d0d350dad9bd840c',
            'info_dict': {
                'id': 'BwY2RxaTrTkslxOfcan0UCf0YqyvWysJ',
                'ext': 'mp4',
-                'title': '2cc213299525360.mov', #that's what we get
+                'title': '2cc213299525360.mov',  # that's what we get
            },
        },
    ]
@@ -161,8 +162,19 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        parsed_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)
        if not parsed_url.scheme:
-            self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http')
-            return self.url_result('http://' + url)
+            default_search = self._downloader.params.get('default_search')
+            if default_search is None:
+                default_search = 'auto'
+
+            if default_search == 'auto':
+                if '/' in url:
+                    self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http')
+                    return self.url_result('http://' + url)
+                else:
+                    return self.url_result('ytsearch:' + url)
+            else:
+                assert ':' in default_search
+                return self.url_result(default_search + url)
        video_id = os.path.splitext(url.split('/')[-1])[0]

        self.to_screen('%s: Requesting header' % video_id)
@@ -318,6 +330,12 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
        if mobj is not None:
            return self.url_result(mobj.group('url'), 'Novamov')

+        # Look for embedded Facebook player
+        mobj = re.search(
+            r'<iframe[^>]+?src=(["\'])(?P<url>https://www.facebook.com/video/embed.+?)\1', webpage)
+        if mobj is not None:
+            return self.url_result(mobj.group('url'), 'Facebook')
+
        # Start with something easy: JW Player in SWFObject
        mobj = re.search(r'flashvars: [\'"](?:.*&)?file=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
        if mobj is None:
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/hotnewhiphop.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/hotnewhiphop.py
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re
 import base64

 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    ExtractorError,
+    HEADRequest,
+)


 class HotNewHipHopIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'http://www\.hotnewhiphop.com/.*\.(?P<id>.*)\.html'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u"http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/freddie-gibbs-lay-it-down-song.1435540.html",
-        u'file': u'1435540.mp3',
-        u'md5': u'2c2cd2f76ef11a9b3b581e8b232f3d96',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"title": u'Freddie Gibbs "Lay It Down"'
+        'url': 'http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/freddie-gibbs-lay-it-down-song.1435540.html',
+        'file': '1435540.mp3',
+        'md5': '2c2cd2f76ef11a9b3b581e8b232f3d96',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': 'Freddie Gibbs - Lay It Down'
        }
    }

@@ -21,24 +29,41 @@ class HotNewHipHopIE(InfoExtractor):

        webpage_src = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)

-        video_url_base64 = self._search_regex(r'data-path="(.*?)"',
-            webpage_src, u'video URL', fatal=False)
+        video_url_base64 = self._search_regex(
+            r'data-path="(.*?)"', webpage_src, u'video URL', fatal=False)

-        if video_url_base64 == None:
-            video_url = self._search_regex(r'"contentUrl" content="(.*?)"', webpage_src,
-                u'video URL')
+        if video_url_base64 is None:
+            video_url = self._search_regex(
+                r'"contentUrl" content="(.*?)"', webpage_src, u'video URL')
            return self.url_result(video_url, ie='Youtube')

-        video_url = base64.b64decode(video_url_base64).decode('utf-8')
+        reqdata = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode([
+            ('mediaType', 's'),
+            ('mediaId', video_id),
+        ])
+        r = compat_urllib_request.Request(
+            'http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/ajax/media/getActions/', data=reqdata)
+        r.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
+        mkd = self._download_json(
+            r, video_id, note='Requesting media key',
+            errnote='Could not download media key')
+        if 'mediaKey' not in mkd:
+            raise ExtractorError('Did not get a media key')

-        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r"<title>(.*)</title>",
-            webpage_src, u'title')
+        redirect_url = base64.b64decode(video_url_base64).decode('utf-8')
+        redirect_req = HEADRequest(redirect_url)
+        req = self._request_webpage(
+            redirect_req, video_id,
+            note='Resolving final URL', errnote='Could not resolve final URL')
+        video_url = req.geturl()
+        if video_url.endswith('.html'):
+            raise ExtractorError('Redirect failed')

-        results = [{
-                    'id': video_id,
-                    'url' : video_url,
-                    'title' : video_title,
-                    'thumbnail' : self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage_src),
-                    'ext' : 'mp3',
-                    }]
-        return results
+        video_title = self._og_search_title(webpage_src).strip()
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'url': video_url,
+            'title': video_title,
+            'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage_src),
+        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/imdb.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/imdb.py
@@ -67,23 +67,16 @@ class ImdbListIE(InfoExtractor):
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        list_id = mobj.group('id')
-        
-        # RSS XML is sometimes malformed
-        rss = self._download_webpage('http://rss.imdb.com/list/%s' % list_id, list_id, 'Downloading list RSS')
-        list_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', rss, 'list title')
-        
-        # Export is independent of actual author_id, but returns 404 if no author_id is provided.
-        # However, passing dummy author_id seems to be enough.
-        csv = self._download_webpage('http://www.imdb.com/list/export?list_id=%s&author_id=ur00000000' % list_id,
-                                     list_id, 'Downloading list CSV')
-        
-        entries = []
-        for item in csv.split('\n')[1:]:
-            cols = item.split(',')
-            if len(cols) < 2:
-                continue
-            item_id = cols[1][1:-1]
-            if item_id.startswith('vi'):
-                entries.append(self.url_result('http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/%s' % item_id, 'Imdb'))
-        
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, list_id)
+        list_code = self._search_regex(
+            r'(?s)<div\s+class="list\sdetail">(.*?)class="see-more"',
+            webpage, 'list code')
+        entries = [
+            self.url_result('http://www.imdb.com' + m, 'Imdb')
+            for m in re.findall(r'href="(/video/imdb/vi[^"]+)"', webpage)]
+
+        list_title = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<h1 class="header">(.*?)</h1>', webpage, 'list title')
+
        return self.playlist_result(entries, list_id, list_title)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/metacritic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/metacritic.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
-    fix_xml_all_ampersand,
+    fix_xml_ampersands,
 )


@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class MetacriticIE(InfoExtractor):
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
        # The xml is not well formatted, there are raw '&'
        info = self._download_xml('http://www.metacritic.com/video_data?video=' + video_id,
-            video_id, 'Downloading info xml', transform_source=fix_xml_all_ampersand)
+            video_id, 'Downloading info xml', transform_source=fix_xml_ampersands)

        clip = next(c for c in info.findall('playList/clip') if c.find('id').text == video_id)
        formats = []
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/mtv.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/mtv.py
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re
-import xml.etree.ElementTree

 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
    compat_urllib_parse,
    ExtractorError,
+    find_xpath_attr,
+    fix_xml_ampersands,
+    url_basename,
+    RegexNotFoundError,
 )

+
 def _media_xml_tag(tag):
    return '{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}%s' % tag

@@ -33,10 +39,9 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        else:
            return thumb_node.attrib['url']

-    def _extract_video_formats(self, metadataXml):
-        if '/error_country_block.swf' in metadataXml:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'This video is not available from your country.', expected=True)
-        mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metadataXml.encode('utf-8'))
+    def _extract_video_formats(self, mdoc):
+        if re.match(r'.*/error_country_block\.swf$', mdoc.find('.//src').text) is not None:
+            raise ExtractorError('This video is not available from your country.', expected=True)

        formats = []
        for rendition in mdoc.findall('.//rendition'):
@@ -59,11 +64,12 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        self.report_extraction(video_id)
        mediagen_url = itemdoc.find('%s/%s' % (_media_xml_tag('group'), _media_xml_tag('content'))).attrib['url']
        # Remove the templates, like &device={device}
-        mediagen_url = re.sub(r'&[^=]*?={.*?}(?=(&|$))', u'', mediagen_url)
+        mediagen_url = re.sub(r'&[^=]*?={.*?}(?=(&|$))', '', mediagen_url)
        if 'acceptMethods' not in mediagen_url:
            mediagen_url += '&acceptMethods=fms'
-        mediagen_page = self._download_webpage(mediagen_url, video_id,
-                                               u'Downloading video urls')
+
+        mediagen_doc = self._download_xml(mediagen_url, video_id,
+            'Downloading video urls')

        description_node = itemdoc.find('description')
        if description_node is not None:
@@ -71,9 +77,23 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        else:
            description = None

+        title_el = None
+        if title_el is None:
+            title_el = find_xpath_attr(
+                itemdoc, './/{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}category',
+                'scheme', 'urn:mtvn:video_title')
+        if title_el is None:
+            title_el = itemdoc.find('.//{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}title')
+        if title_el is None:
+            title_el = itemdoc.find('.//title')
+        title = title_el.text
+        if title is None:
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find video title')
+        title = title.strip()
+
        return {
-            'title': itemdoc.find('title').text,
-            'formats': self._extract_video_formats(mediagen_page),
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': self._extract_video_formats(mediagen_doc),
            'id': video_id,
            'thumbnail': self._get_thumbnail_url(uri, itemdoc),
            'description': description,
@@ -83,14 +103,25 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        video_id = self._id_from_uri(uri)
        data = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'uri': uri})

-        def fix_ampersand(s):
-            """ Fix unencoded ampersand in XML """
-            return s.replace(u'& ', '&amp; ')
        idoc = self._download_xml(
            self._FEED_URL + '?' + data, video_id,
-            u'Downloading info', transform_source=fix_ampersand)
+            'Downloading info', transform_source=fix_xml_ampersands)
        return [self._get_video_info(item) for item in idoc.findall('.//item')]

+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        title = url_basename(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, title)
+        try:
+            # the url can be http://media.mtvnservices.com/fb/{mgid}.swf
+            # or http://media.mtvnservices.com/{mgid}
+            og_url = self._og_search_video_url(webpage)
+            mgid = url_basename(og_url)
+            if mgid.endswith('.swf'):
+                mgid = mgid[:-4]
+        except RegexNotFoundError:
+            mgid = self._search_regex(r'data-mgid="(.*?)"', webpage, u'mgid')
+        return self._get_videos_info(mgid)
+

 class MTVIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)^https?://
@@ -101,25 +132,25 @@ class MTVIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):

    _TESTS = [
        {
-            u'url': u'http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/853555/ours-vh1-storytellers.jhtml',
-            u'file': u'853555.mp4',
-            u'md5': u'850f3f143316b1e71fa56a4edfd6e0f8',
-            u'info_dict': {
-                u'title': u'Taylor Swift - "Ours (VH1 Storytellers)"',
-                u'description': u'Album: Taylor Swift performs "Ours" for VH1 Storytellers at Harvey Mudd College.',
+            'url': 'http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/853555/ours-vh1-storytellers.jhtml',
+            'file': '853555.mp4',
+            'md5': '850f3f143316b1e71fa56a4edfd6e0f8',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'title': 'Taylor Swift - "Ours (VH1 Storytellers)"',
+                'description': 'Album: Taylor Swift performs "Ours" for VH1 Storytellers at Harvey Mudd College.',
            },
        },
        {
-            u'add_ie': ['Vevo'],
-            u'url': u'http://www.mtv.com/videos/taylor-swift/916187/everything-has-changed-ft-ed-sheeran.jhtml',
-            u'file': u'USCJY1331283.mp4',
-            u'md5': u'73b4e7fcadd88929292fe52c3ced8caf',
-            u'info_dict': {
-                u'title': u'Everything Has Changed',
-                u'upload_date': u'20130606',
-                u'uploader': u'Taylor Swift',
+            'add_ie': ['Vevo'],
+            'url': 'http://www.mtv.com/videos/taylor-swift/916187/everything-has-changed-ft-ed-sheeran.jhtml',
+            'file': 'USCJY1331283.mp4',
+            'md5': '73b4e7fcadd88929292fe52c3ced8caf',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'title': 'Everything Has Changed',
+                'upload_date': '20130606',
+                'uploader': 'Taylor Swift',
            },
-            u'skip': u'VEVO is only available in some countries',
+            'skip': 'VEVO is only available in some countries',
        },
    ]

@@ -138,8 +169,22 @@ class MTVIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
                               webpage, re.DOTALL)
            if m_vevo:
                vevo_id = m_vevo.group(1);
-                self.to_screen(u'Vevo video detected: %s' % vevo_id)
+                self.to_screen('Vevo video detected: %s' % vevo_id)
                return self.url_result('vevo:%s' % vevo_id, ie='Vevo')
    
-            uri = self._html_search_regex(r'/uri/(.*?)\?', webpage, u'uri')
+            uri = self._html_search_regex(r'/uri/(.*?)\?', webpage, 'uri')
        return self._get_videos_info(uri)
+
+
+class MTVIggyIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'mtviggy.com'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.mtviggy\.com/videos/.+'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.mtviggy.com/videos/arcade-fire-behind-the-scenes-at-the-biggest-music-experiment-yet/',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '984696',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Arcade Fire: Behind the Scenes at the Biggest Music Experiment Yet',
+        }
+    }
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://all.mtvworldverticals.com/feed-xml/'
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/myspace.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/myspace.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re
 import json

@@ -8,41 +10,75 @@ from ..utils import (


 class MySpaceIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://myspace\.com/([^/]+)/video/[^/]+/(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://myspace\.com/([^/]+)/(?P<mediatype>video/[^/]+/|music/song/.*?)(?P<id>\d+)'

-    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'https://myspace.com/coldplay/video/viva-la-vida/100008689',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'id': u'100008689',
-            u'ext': u'flv',
-            u'title': u'Viva La Vida',
-            u'description': u'The official Viva La Vida video, directed by Hype Williams',
-            u'uploader': u'Coldplay',
-            u'uploader_id': u'coldplay',
+    _TESTS = [
+        {
+            'url': 'https://myspace.com/coldplay/video/viva-la-vida/100008689',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '100008689',
+                'ext': 'flv',
+                'title': 'Viva La Vida',
+                'description': 'The official Viva La Vida video, directed by Hype Williams',
+                'uploader': 'Coldplay',
+                'uploader_id': 'coldplay',
+            },
+            'params': {
+                # rtmp download
+                'skip_download': True,
+            },
        },
-        u'params': {
-            # rtmp download
-            u'skip_download': True,
+        # song
+        {
+            'url': 'https://myspace.com/spiderbags/music/song/darkness-in-my-heart-39008454-27041242',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '39008454',
+                'ext': 'flv',
+                'title': 'Darkness In My Heart',
+                'uploader_id': 'spiderbags',
+            },
+            'params': {
+                # rtmp download
+                'skip_download': True,
+            },
        },
-    }
+    ]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        video_id = mobj.group('id')
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        context = json.loads(self._search_regex(r'context = ({.*?});', webpage,
-            u'context'))
-        video = context['video']
-        rtmp_url, play_path = video['streamUrl'].split(';', 1)

-        return {
-            'id': compat_str(video['mediaId']),
-            'title': video['title'],
+        if mobj.group('mediatype').startswith('music/song'):
+            # songs don't store any useful info in the 'context' variable
+            def search_data(name):
+                return self._search_regex(r'data-%s="(.*?)"' % name, webpage,
+                    name)
+            streamUrl = search_data('stream-url')
+            info = {
+                'id': video_id,
+                'title': self._og_search_title(webpage),
+                'uploader_id': search_data('artist-username'),
+                'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage),
+            }
+        else:
+            context = json.loads(self._search_regex(r'context = ({.*?});', webpage,
+                u'context'))
+            video = context['video']
+            streamUrl = video['streamUrl']
+            info = {
+                'id': compat_str(video['mediaId']),
+                'title': video['title'],
+                'description': video['description'],
+                'thumbnail': video['imageUrl'],
+                'uploader': video['artistName'],
+                'uploader_id': video['artistUsername'],
+            }
+
+        rtmp_url, play_path = streamUrl.split(';', 1)
+        info.update({
            'url': rtmp_url,
            'play_path': play_path,
            'ext': 'flv',
-            'description': video['description'],
-            'thumbnail': video['imageUrl'],
-            'uploader': video['artistName'],
-            'uploader_id': video['artistUsername'],
-        }
+        })
+        return info
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/newgrounds.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/newgrounds.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import json
 import re

@@ -8,12 +10,12 @@ from ..utils import determine_ext
 class NewgroundsIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?newgrounds\.com/audio/listen/(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/549479',
-        u'file': u'549479.mp3',
-        u'md5': u'fe6033d297591288fa1c1f780386f07a',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"title": u"B7 - BusMode",
-            u"uploader": u"Burn7",
+        'url': 'http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/549479',
+        'file': '549479.mp3',
+        'md5': 'fe6033d297591288fa1c1f780386f07a',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "title": "B7 - BusMode",
+            "uploader": "Burn7",
        }
    }

@@ -22,17 +24,19 @@ class NewgroundsIE(InfoExtractor):
        music_id = mobj.group('id')
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, music_id)
        
-        title = self._html_search_regex(r',"name":"([^"]+)",', webpage, u'music title')
-        uploader = self._html_search_regex(r',"artist":"([^"]+)",', webpage, u'music uploader')
+        title = self._html_search_regex(
+            r',"name":"([^"]+)",', webpage, 'music title')
+        uploader = self._html_search_regex(
+            r',"artist":"([^"]+)",', webpage, 'music uploader')
        
-        music_url_json_string = self._html_search_regex(r'({"url":"[^"]+"),', webpage, u'music url') + '}'
+        music_url_json_string = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'({"url":"[^"]+"),', webpage, 'music url') + '}'
        music_url_json = json.loads(music_url_json_string)
        music_url = music_url_json['url']

        return {
-            'id':       music_id,
-            'title':    title,
-            'url':      music_url,
+            'id': music_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'url': music_url,
            'uploader': uploader,
-            'ext':      determine_ext(music_url),
        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/novamov.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/novamov.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ class NovamovIE(InfoExtractor):
        'info_dict': {
            'title': 'search engine optimization',
            'description': 'search engine optimization is used to rank the web page in the google search engine'
-        }
+        },
+        'skip': '"Invalid token" errors abound (in web interface as well as youtube-dl, there is nothing we can do about it.)'
    }

    def _real_extract(self, url):
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/nowness.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/nowness.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .brightcove import BrightcoveIE
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+)
+
+
+class NownessIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?nowness\.com/[^?#]*?/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/(?P<slug>[^/]+?)(?:$|[?#])'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/6/27/3131/candor--the-art-of-gesticulation',
+        'file': '2520295746001.mp4',
+        'md5': '0ece2f70a7bd252c7b00f3070182d418',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'description': 'Candor: The Art of Gesticulation',
+            'uploader': 'Nowness',
+            'title': 'Candor: The Art of Gesticulation',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('slug')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        player_url = self._search_regex(
+            r'"([^"]+/content/issue-[0-9.]+.js)"', webpage, 'player URL')
+        real_id = self._search_regex(
+            r'\sdata-videoId="([0-9]+)"', webpage, 'internal video ID')
+
+        player_code = self._download_webpage(
+            player_url, video_id,
+            note='Downloading player JavaScript',
+            errnote='Player download failed')
+        player_code = player_code.replace("'+d+'", real_id)
+
+        bc_url = BrightcoveIE._extract_brightcove_url(player_code)
+        if bc_url is None:
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find player definition')
+        return {
+            '_type': 'url',
+            'url': bc_url,
+            'ie_key': 'Brightcove',
+        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/redtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/redtube.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
@@ -6,14 +8,14 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor
 class RedTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'http://(?:www\.)?redtube\.com/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.redtube.com/66418',
-        u'file': u'66418.mp4',
+        'url': 'http://www.redtube.com/66418',
+        'file': '66418.mp4',
        # md5 varies from time to time, as in
        # https://travis-ci.org/rg3/youtube-dl/jobs/14052463#L295
-        #u'md5': u'7b8c22b5e7098a3e1c09709df1126d2d',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"title": u"Sucked on a toilet",
-            u"age_limit": 18,
+        #'md5': u'7b8c22b5e7098a3e1c09709df1126d2d',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "title": "Sucked on a toilet",
+            "age_limit": 18,
        }
    }

@@ -33,14 +35,19 @@ class RedTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
            r'<h1 class="videoTitle[^"]*">(.+?)</h1>',
            webpage, u'title')

+        video_thumbnail = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'playerInnerHTML.+?<img\s+src="(.+?)"',
+            webpage, u'thumbnail', fatal=False)
+
        # No self-labeling, but they describe themselves as
        # "Home of Videos Porno"
        age_limit = 18

        return {
-            'id':        video_id,
-            'url':       video_url,
-            'ext':       video_extension,
-            'title':     video_title,
+            'id': video_id,
+            'url': video_url,
+            'ext': video_extension,
+            'title': video_title,
+            'thumbnail': video_thumbnail,
            'age_limit': age_limit,
        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/ringtv.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/ringtv.py
@@ -1,37 +1,44 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor


 class RingTVIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?ringtv\.craveonline\.com/videos/video/([^/]+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?ringtv\.craveonline\.com/(?P<type>news|videos/video)/(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'
    _TEST = {
-        u"url": u"http://ringtv.craveonline.com/videos/video/746619-canelo-alvarez-talks-about-mayweather-showdown",
-        u"file": u"746619.mp4",
-        u"md5": u"7c46b4057d22de32e0a539f017e64ad3",
-        u"info_dict": {
-            u"title": u"Canelo Alvarez talks about Mayweather showdown",
-            u"description": u"Saul \\\"Canelo\\\" Alvarez spoke to the media about his Sept. 14 showdown with Floyd Mayweather after their kick-off presser in NYC. Canelo is motivated and confident that he will have the speed and gameplan to beat the pound-for-pound king."
+        "url": "http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/310833-luis-collazo-says-victor-ortiz-better-not-quit-on-jan-30",
+        "file": "857645.mp4",
+        "md5": "d25945f5df41cdca2d2587165ac28720",
+        "info_dict": {
+            "title": 'Video: Luis Collazo says Victor Ortiz "better not quit on Jan. 30" - Ring TV',
+            "description": 'Luis Collazo is excited about his Jan. 30 showdown with fellow former welterweight titleholder Victor Ortiz at Barclays Center in his hometown of Brooklyn. The SuperBowl week fight headlines a Golden Boy Live! card on Fox Sports 1.',
        }
    }

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = mobj.group(1).split('-')[0]
+        video_id = mobj.group('id').split('-')[0]
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        title = self._search_regex(r'<title>(.+?)</title>',
-        		webpage, 'video title').replace(' | RingTV','')
-        description = self._search_regex(r'<div class="blurb">(.+?)</div>',
-        		webpage, 'Description')
-        final_url = "http://ringtv.craveonline.springboardplatform.com/storage/ringtv.craveonline.com/conversion/%s.mp4" %(str(video_id))
-        thumbnail_url = "http://ringtv.craveonline.springboardplatform.com/storage/ringtv.craveonline.com/snapshots/%s.jpg" %(str(video_id))
-        ext = final_url.split('.')[-1]
-        return [{
-            'id'          : video_id,
-            'url'         : final_url,
-            'ext'         : ext,
-            'title'       : title,
-            'thumbnail'   : thumbnail_url,
-            'description' : description,
-        }]
+
+        if mobj.group('type') == 'news':
+            video_id = self._search_regex(
+                r'''(?x)<iframe[^>]+src="http://cms\.springboardplatform\.com/
+                        embed_iframe/[0-9]+/video/([0-9]+)/''',
+                webpage, 'real video ID')
+        title = self._og_search_title(webpage)
+        description = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'addthis:description="([^"]+)"',
+            webpage, 'description', fatal=False)
+        final_url = "http://ringtv.craveonline.springboardplatform.com/storage/ringtv.craveonline.com/conversion/%s.mp4" % video_id
+        thumbnail_url = "http://ringtv.craveonline.springboardplatform.com/storage/ringtv.craveonline.com/snapshots/%s.jpg" % video_id
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'url': final_url,
+            'title': title,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail_url,
+            'description': description,
+        }

--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/rottentomatoes.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/rottentomatoes.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from .videodetective import VideoDetectiveIE


@@ -7,10 +9,10 @@ class RottenTomatoesIE(VideoDetectiveIE):
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.rottentomatoes\.com/m/[^/]+/trailers/(?P<id>\d+)'

    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_3/trailers/11028566/',
-        u'file': '613340.mp4',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'title': u'TOY STORY 3',
-            u'description': u'From the creators of the beloved TOY STORY films, comes a story that will reunite the gang in a whole new way.',
+        'url': 'http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_3/trailers/11028566/',
+        'file': '613340.mp4',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': 'TOY STORY 3',
+            'description': 'From the creators of the beloved TOY STORY films, comes a story that will reunite the gang in a whole new way.',
        },
    }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/servingsys.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/servingsys.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    int_or_none,
+)
+
+
+class ServingSysIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:[^.]+\.)?serving-sys\.com/BurstingPipe/adServer\.bs\?.*?&pli=(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=is&c=23&pl=VAST&pli=5349193&PluID=0&pos=7135&ord=[timestamp]&cim=1?',
+        'playlist': [{
+            'file': '29955898.flv',
+            'md5': 'baed851342df6846eb8677a60a011a0f',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'title': 'AdAPPter_Hyundai_demo (1)',
+                'duration': 74,
+                'tbr': 1378,
+                'width': 640,
+                'height': 400,
+            },
+        }, {
+            'file': '29907998.flv',
+            'md5': '979b4da2655c4bc2d81aeb915a8c5014',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'title': 'AdAPPter_Hyundai_demo (2)',
+                'duration': 34,
+                'width': 854,
+                'height': 480,
+                'tbr': 516,
+            },
+        }],
+        'params': {
+            'playlistend': 2,
+        },
+        'skip': 'Blocked in the US [sic]',
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        pl_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        vast_doc = self._download_xml(url, pl_id)
+        title = vast_doc.find('.//AdTitle').text
+        media = vast_doc.find('.//MediaFile').text
+        info_url = self._search_regex(r'&adData=([^&]+)&', media, 'info URL')
+
+        doc = self._download_xml(info_url, pl_id, 'Downloading video info')
+        entries = [{
+            '_type': 'video',
+            'id': a.attrib['id'],
+            'title': '%s (%s)' % (title, a.attrib['assetID']),
+            'url': a.attrib['URL'],
+            'duration': int_or_none(a.attrib.get('length')),
+            'tbr': int_or_none(a.attrib.get('bitrate')),
+            'height': int_or_none(a.attrib.get('height')),
+            'width': int_or_none(a.attrib.get('width')),
+        } for a in doc.findall('.//AdditionalAssets/asset')]
+
+        return {
+            '_type': 'playlist',
+            'id': pl_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'entries': entries,
+        }
+
+ 
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/southparkstudios.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/southparkstudios.py
@@ -18,14 +18,6 @@ class SouthParkStudiosIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
        },
    }]

-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        url = u'http://www.' + mobj.group(u'url')
-        video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        mgid = self._search_regex(r'swfobject.embedSWF\(".*?(mgid:.*?)"',
-                                  webpage, u'mgid')
-        return self._get_videos_info(mgid)

 class SouthparkDeIE(SouthParkStudiosIE):
    IE_NAME = u'southpark.de'
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/space.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/space.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from ..utils import RegexNotFoundError, ExtractorError


 class SpaceIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.space\.com/\d+-(?P<title>[^/\.\?]*?)-video\.html'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:(?:www|m)\.)?space\.com/\d+-(?P<title>[^/\.\?]*?)-video\.html'
    _TEST = {
        u'add_ie': ['Brightcove'],
        u'url': u'http://www.space.com/23373-huge-martian-landforms-detail-revealed-by-european-probe-video.html',
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/spike.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/spike.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .mtv import MTVServicesInfoExtractor
+
+
+class SpikeIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.spike\.com/(video-clips|episodes)/.+'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.spike.com/video-clips/lhtu8m/auction-hunters-can-allen-ride-a-hundred-year-old-motorcycle',
+        'md5': '1a9265f32b0c375793d6c4ce45255256',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'b9c8221a-4e50-479a-b86d-3333323e38ba',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Auction Hunters|Can Allen Ride A Hundred Year-Old Motorcycle?',
+            'description': 'md5:fbed7e82ed5fad493615b3094a9499cb',
+        },
+    }
+
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://www.spike.com/feeds/mrss/'
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vk.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re
 import json

@@ -10,19 +12,27 @@ from ..utils import (


 class VKIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_NAME = u'vk.com'
+    IE_NAME = 'vk.com'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://vk\.com/(?:videos.*?\?.*?z=)?video(?P<id>.*?)(?:\?|%2F|$)'

-    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://vk.com/videos-77521?z=video-77521_162222515%2Fclub77521',
-        u'md5': u'0deae91935c54e00003c2a00646315f0',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u'id': u'162222515',
-            u'ext': u'flv',
-            u'title': u'ProtivoGunz - Хуёвая песня',
-            u'uploader': u'Noize MC',
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://vk.com/videos-77521?z=video-77521_162222515%2Fclub77521',
+        'file': '162222515.flv',
+        'md5': '0deae91935c54e00003c2a00646315f0',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'title': 'ProtivoGunz - Хуёвая песня',
+            'uploader': 'Noize MC',
        },
-    }
+    },
+    {
+        'url': 'http://vk.com/video4643923_163339118',
+        'file': '163339118.mp4',
+        'md5': 'f79bccb5cd182b1f43502ca5685b2b36',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'uploader': 'Elvira Dzhonik',
+            'title': 'Dream Theater - Hollow Years Live at Budokan 720*',
+        }
+    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
@@ -33,13 +43,21 @@ class VKIE(InfoExtractor):
        if m_yt is not None:
            self.to_screen(u'Youtube video detected')
            return self.url_result(m_yt.group(1), 'Youtube')
-        vars_json = self._search_regex(r'var vars = ({.*?});', info_page, u'vars')
-        vars = json.loads(vars_json)
+        data_json = self._search_regex(r'var vars = ({.*?});', info_page, 'vars')
+        data = json.loads(data_json)
+
+        formats = [{
+            'format_id': k,
+            'url': v,
+            'width': int(k[len('url'):]),
+        } for k, v in data.items()
+            if k.startswith('url')]
+        self._sort_formats(formats)

        return {
-            'id': compat_str(vars['vid']),
-            'url': vars['url240'],
-            'title': unescapeHTML(vars['md_title']),
-            'thumbnail': vars['jpg'],
-            'uploader': vars['md_author'],
+            'id': compat_str(data['vid']),
+            'formats': formats,
+            'title': unescapeHTML(data['md_title']),
+            'thumbnail': data.get('jpg'),
+            'uploader': data.get('md_author'),
        }
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/wimp.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/wimp.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re
-import base64

 from .common import InfoExtractor

@@ -7,12 +8,12 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor
 class WimpIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?wimp\.com/([^/]+)/'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.wimp.com/deerfence/',
-        u'file': u'deerfence.flv',
-        u'md5': u'8b215e2e0168c6081a1cf84b2846a2b5',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"title": u"Watch Till End: Herd of deer jump over a fence.",
-            u"description": u"These deer look as fluid as running water when they jump over this fence as a herd. This video is one that needs to be watched until the very end for the true majesty to be witnessed, but once it comes, it's sure to take your breath away.",
+        'url': 'http://www.wimp.com/deerfence/',
+        'file': 'deerfence.flv',
+        'md5': '8b215e2e0168c6081a1cf84b2846a2b5',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "title": "Watch Till End: Herd of deer jump over a fence.",
+            "description": "These deer look as fluid as running water when they jump over this fence as a herd. This video is one that needs to be watched until the very end for the true majesty to be witnessed, but once it comes, it's sure to take your breath away.",
        }
    }

@@ -20,13 +21,12 @@ class WimpIE(InfoExtractor):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
        video_id = mobj.group(1)
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        googleString = self._search_regex("googleCode = '(.*?)'", webpage, 'file url')
-        googleString = base64.b64decode(googleString).decode('ascii')
-        final_url = self._search_regex('","(.*?)"', googleString, u'final video url')
+        video_url = self._search_regex(
+            r's1\.addVariable\("file",\s*"([^"]+)"\);', webpage, 'video URL')

        return {
            'id': video_id,
-            'url': final_url,
+            'url': video_url,
            'title': self._og_search_title(webpage),
            'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage),
            'description': self._og_search_description(webpage),
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/xhamster.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/xhamster.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
    compat_urllib_parse,
    unescapeHTML,
-    determine_ext,
    ExtractorError,
 )

@@ -13,25 +14,25 @@ class XHamsterIE(InfoExtractor):
    """Information Extractor for xHamster"""
    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?xhamster\.com/movies/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/(?P<seo>.+?)\.html(?:\?.*)?'
    _TESTS = [{
-        u'url': u'http://xhamster.com/movies/1509445/femaleagent_shy_beauty_takes_the_bait.html',
-        u'file': u'1509445.flv',
-        u'md5': u'9f48e0e8d58e3076bb236ff412ab62fa',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"upload_date": u"20121014", 
-            u"uploader_id": u"Ruseful2011", 
-            u"title": u"FemaleAgent Shy beauty takes the bait",
-            u"age_limit": 18,
+        'url': 'http://xhamster.com/movies/1509445/femaleagent_shy_beauty_takes_the_bait.html',
+        'file': '1509445.mp4',
+        'md5': '8281348b8d3c53d39fffb377d24eac4e',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "upload_date": "20121014",
+            "uploader_id": "Ruseful2011",
+            "title": "FemaleAgent Shy beauty takes the bait",
+            "age_limit": 18,
        }
    },
    {
-        u'url': u'http://xhamster.com/movies/2221348/britney_spears_sexy_booty.html?hd',
-        u'file': u'2221348.flv',
-        u'md5': u'e767b9475de189320f691f49c679c4c7',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"upload_date": u"20130914",
-            u"uploader_id": u"jojo747400",
-            u"title": u"Britney Spears  Sexy Booty",
-            u"age_limit": 18,
+        'url': 'http://xhamster.com/movies/2221348/britney_spears_sexy_booty.html?hd',
+        'file': '2221348.flv',
+        'md5': 'e767b9475de189320f691f49c679c4c7',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "upload_date": "20130914",
+            "uploader_id": "jojo747400",
+            "title": "Britney Spears  Sexy Booty",
+            "age_limit": 18,
        }
    }]

@@ -39,14 +40,21 @@ class XHamsterIE(InfoExtractor):
        def extract_video_url(webpage):
            mobj = re.search(r'\'srv\': \'(?P<server>[^\']*)\',\s*\'file\': \'(?P<file>[^\']+)\',', webpage)
            if mobj is None:
-                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
+                raise ExtractorError('Unable to extract media URL')
            if len(mobj.group('server')) == 0:
                return compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group('file'))
            else:
                return mobj.group('server')+'/key='+mobj.group('file')

+        def extract_mp4_video_url(webpage):
+            mp4 = re.search(r'<a href=\"(.+?)\" class=\"mp4Play\"',webpage)
+            if mp4 is None:
+                return None
+            else:
+                return mp4.group(1)
+
        def is_hd(webpage):
-            return webpage.find('<div class=\'icon iconHD\'') != -1
+            return '<div class=\'icon iconHD\'' in webpage

        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)

@@ -55,50 +63,60 @@ class XHamsterIE(InfoExtractor):
        mrss_url = 'http://xhamster.com/movies/%s/%s.html' % (video_id, seo)
        webpage = self._download_webpage(mrss_url, video_id)

-        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(?P<title>.+?) - xHamster\.com</title>',
-            webpage, u'title')
+        video_title = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<title>(?P<title>.+?) - xHamster\.com</title>', webpage, 'title')

        # Only a few videos have an description
-        mobj = re.search('<span>Description: </span>(?P<description>[^<]+)', webpage)
-        if mobj:
-            video_description = unescapeHTML(mobj.group('description'))
-        else:
-            video_description = None
+        mobj = re.search(r'<span>Description: </span>([^<]+)', webpage)
+        video_description = mobj.group(1) if mobj else None

        mobj = re.search(r'hint=\'(?P<upload_date_Y>[0-9]{4})-(?P<upload_date_m>[0-9]{2})-(?P<upload_date_d>[0-9]{2}) [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [A-Z]{3,4}\'', webpage)
        if mobj:
            video_upload_date = mobj.group('upload_date_Y')+mobj.group('upload_date_m')+mobj.group('upload_date_d')
        else:
            video_upload_date = None
-            self._downloader.report_warning(u'Unable to extract upload date')
+            self._downloader.report_warning('Unable to extract upload date')

-        video_uploader_id = self._html_search_regex(r'<a href=\'/user/[^>]+>(?P<uploader_id>[^<]+)',
-            webpage, u'uploader id', default=u'anonymous')
+        video_uploader_id = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<a href=\'/user/[^>]+>(?P<uploader_id>[^<]+)',
+            webpage, 'uploader id', default='anonymous')

-        video_thumbnail = self._search_regex(r'\'image\':\'(?P<thumbnail>[^\']+)\'',
-            webpage, u'thumbnail', fatal=False)
+        video_thumbnail = self._search_regex(
+            r'\'image\':\'(?P<thumbnail>[^\']+)\'',
+            webpage, 'thumbnail', fatal=False)

        age_limit = self._rta_search(webpage)

-        video_url = extract_video_url(webpage)
        hd = is_hd(webpage)
+        video_url = extract_video_url(webpage)
        formats = [{
            'url': video_url,
-            'ext': determine_ext(video_url),
-            'format': 'hd' if hd else 'sd',
            'format_id': 'hd' if hd else 'sd',
+            'preference': 0,
        }]
+
+        video_mp4_url = extract_mp4_video_url(webpage)
+        if video_mp4_url is not None:
+            formats.append({
+                'url': video_mp4_url,
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'format_id': 'mp4-hd' if hd else 'mp4-sd',
+                'preference': 1,
+            })
+
        if not hd:
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(mrss_url+'?hd', video_id)
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(
+                mrss_url + '?hd', video_id, note='Downloading HD webpage')
            if is_hd(webpage):
                video_url = extract_video_url(webpage)
                formats.append({
                    'url': video_url,
-                    'ext': determine_ext(video_url),
-                    'format': 'hd',
                    'format_id': 'hd',
+                    'preference': 2,
                })

+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
        return {
            'id': video_id,
            'title': video_title,
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/xvideos.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/xvideos.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
@@ -9,12 +11,12 @@ from ..utils import (
 class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?xvideos\.com/video([0-9]+)(?:.*)'
    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.xvideos.com/video939581/funny_porns_by_s_-1',
-        u'file': u'939581.flv',
-        u'md5': u'1d0c835822f0a71a7bf011855db929d0',
-        u'info_dict': {
-            u"title": u"Funny Porns By >>>>S<<<<<< -1",
-            u"age_limit": 18,
+        'url': 'http://www.xvideos.com/video939581/funny_porns_by_s_-1',
+        'file': '939581.flv',
+        'md5': '1d0c835822f0a71a7bf011855db929d0',
+        'info_dict': {
+            "title": "Funny Porns By >>>>S<<<<<< -1",
+            "age_limit": 18,
        }
    }

@@ -27,18 +29,18 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
        self.report_extraction(video_id)

        # Extract video URL
-        video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(self._search_regex(r'flv_url=(.+?)&',
-            webpage, u'video URL'))
+        video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(
+            self._search_regex(r'flv_url=(.+?)&', webpage, 'video URL'))

        # Extract title
-        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(.*?)\s+-\s+XVID',
-            webpage, u'title')
+        video_title = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<title>(.*?)\s+-\s+XVID', webpage, 'title')

        # Extract video thumbnail
-        video_thumbnail = self._search_regex(r'http://(?:img.*?\.)xvideos.com/videos/thumbs/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/([a-fA-F0-9.]+jpg)',
-            webpage, u'thumbnail', fatal=False)
+        video_thumbnail = self._search_regex(
+            r'url_bigthumb=(.+?)&amp', webpage, 'thumbnail', fatal=False)

-        info = {
+        return {
            'id': video_id,
            'url': video_url,
            'uploader': None,
@@ -49,5 +51,3 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
            'description': None,
            'age_limit': 18,
        }
-
-        return [info]
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ from ..utils import (
    get_element_by_id,
    get_element_by_attribute,
    ExtractorError,
+    int_or_none,
+    PagedList,
+    RegexNotFoundError,
    unescapeHTML,
    unified_strdate,
    orderedSet,
@@ -269,6 +272,22 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
                u"uploader_id": u"setindia"
            }
        },
+        {
+            u"url": u"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9LDPn-MO4I",
+            u"file": u"a9LDPn-MO4I.m4a",
+            u"note": u"256k DASH audio (format 141) via DASH manifest",
+            u"info_dict": {
+                u"upload_date": "20121002",
+                u"uploader_id": "8KVIDEO",
+                u"description": "No description available.",
+                u"uploader": "8KVIDEO",
+                u"title": "UHDTV TEST 8K VIDEO.mp4"
+            },
+            u"params": {
+                u"youtube_include_dash_manifest": True,
+                u"format": "141",
+            },
+        },
    ]


@@ -1066,18 +1085,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
        video_id = mobj.group(2)
        return video_id

-    def _get_video_url_list(self, url_map):
-        """
-        Transform a dictionary in the format {itag:url} to a list of (itag, url)
-        with the requested formats.
-        """
-        existing_formats = [x for x in self._formats if x in url_map]
-        if len(existing_formats) == 0:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'no known formats available for video')
-        video_url_list = [(f, url_map[f]) for f in existing_formats] # All formats
-        video_url_list.reverse() # order worst to best
-        return video_url_list
-
    def _extract_from_m3u8(self, manifest_url, video_id):
        url_map = {}
        def _get_urls(_manifest):
@@ -1251,7 +1258,6 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
                video_annotations = self._extract_annotations(video_id)

        # Decide which formats to download
-
        try:
            mobj = re.search(r';ytplayer.config = ({.*?});', video_webpage)
            if not mobj:
@@ -1276,9 +1282,26 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
        except ValueError:
            pass

+        def _map_to_format_list(urlmap):
+            formats = []
+            for itag, video_real_url in urlmap.items():
+                dct = {
+                    'format_id': itag,
+                    'url': video_real_url,
+                    'player_url': player_url,
+                }
+                dct.update(self._formats[itag])
+                formats.append(dct)
+            return formats
+
        if 'conn' in video_info and video_info['conn'][0].startswith('rtmp'):
            self.report_rtmp_download()
-            video_url_list = [('_rtmp', video_info['conn'][0])]
+            formats = [{
+                'format_id': '_rtmp',
+                'protocol': 'rtmp',
+                'url': video_info['conn'][0],
+                'player_url': player_url,
+            }]
        elif len(video_info.get('url_encoded_fmt_stream_map', [])) >= 1 or len(video_info.get('adaptive_fmts', [])) >= 1:
            encoded_url_map = video_info.get('url_encoded_fmt_stream_map', [''])[0] + ',' + video_info.get('adaptive_fmts',[''])[0]
            if 'rtmpe%3Dyes' in encoded_url_map:
@@ -1323,23 +1346,50 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
                    if 'ratebypass' not in url:
                        url += '&ratebypass=yes'
                    url_map[url_data['itag'][0]] = url
-            video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
+            formats = _map_to_format_list(url_map)
        elif video_info.get('hlsvp'):
            manifest_url = video_info['hlsvp'][0]
            url_map = self._extract_from_m3u8(manifest_url, video_id)
-            video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
+            formats = _map_to_format_list(url_map)
        else:
            raise ExtractorError(u'no conn, hlsvp or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info')

-        formats = []
-        for itag, video_real_url in video_url_list:
-            dct = {
-                'format_id': itag,
-                'url': video_real_url,
-                'player_url': player_url,
-            }
-            dct.update(self._formats[itag])
-            formats.append(dct)
+        # Look for the DASH manifest
+        dash_manifest_url_lst = video_info.get('dashmpd')
+        if (dash_manifest_url_lst and dash_manifest_url_lst[0] and
+                self._downloader.params.get('youtube_include_dash_manifest', False)):
+            try:
+                dash_doc = self._download_xml(
+                    dash_manifest_url_lst[0], video_id,
+                    note=u'Downloading DASH manifest',
+                    errnote=u'Could not download DASH manifest')
+                for r in dash_doc.findall(u'.//{urn:mpeg:DASH:schema:MPD:2011}Representation'):
+                    url_el = r.find('{urn:mpeg:DASH:schema:MPD:2011}BaseURL')
+                    if url_el is None:
+                        continue
+                    format_id = r.attrib['id']
+                    video_url = url_el.text
+                    filesize = int_or_none(url_el.attrib.get('{http://youtube.com/yt/2012/10/10}contentLength'))
+                    f = {
+                        'format_id': format_id,
+                        'url': video_url,
+                        'width': int_or_none(r.attrib.get('width')),
+                        'tbr': int_or_none(r.attrib.get('bandwidth'), 1000),
+                        'asr': int_or_none(r.attrib.get('audioSamplingRate')),
+                        'filesize': filesize,
+                    }
+                    try:
+                        existing_format = next(
+                            fo for fo in formats
+                            if fo['format_id'] == format_id)
+                    except StopIteration:
+                        f.update(self._formats.get(format_id, {}))
+                        formats.append(f)
+                    else:
+                        existing_format.update(f)
+
+            except (ExtractorError, KeyError) as e:
+                self.report_warning(u'Skipping DASH manifest: %s' % e, video_id)

        self._sort_formats(formats)

@@ -1448,7 +1498,14 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            if re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, page) is None:
                break

-        playlist_title = self._og_search_title(page)
+        try:
+            playlist_title = self._og_search_title(page)
+        except RegexNotFoundError:
+            self.report_warning(
+                u'Playlist page is missing OpenGraph title, falling back ...',
+                playlist_id)
+            playlist_title = self._html_search_regex(
+                r'<h1 class="pl-header-title">(.*?)</h1>', page, u'title')

        url_results = self._ids_to_results(ids)
        return self.playlist_result(url_results, playlist_id, playlist_title)
@@ -1572,44 +1629,35 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
        # page by page until there are no video ids - it means we got
        # all of them.

-        url_results = []
-
-        for pagenum in itertools.count(0):
+        def download_page(pagenum):
            start_index = pagenum * self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE + 1

            gdata_url = self._GDATA_URL % (username, self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE, start_index)
-            page = self._download_webpage(gdata_url, username,
-                                          u'Downloading video ids from %d to %d' % (start_index, start_index + self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE))
+            page = self._download_webpage(
+                gdata_url, username,
+                u'Downloading video ids from %d to %d' % (
+                    start_index, start_index + self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE))

            try:
                response = json.loads(page)
            except ValueError as err:
                raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid JSON in API response: ' + compat_str(err))
            if 'entry' not in response['feed']:
-                # Number of videos is a multiple of self._MAX_RESULTS
-                break
+                return

            # Extract video identifiers
            entries = response['feed']['entry']
            for entry in entries:
                title = entry['title']['$t']
                video_id = entry['id']['$t'].split('/')[-1]
-                url_results.append({
+                yield {
                    '_type': 'url',
                    'url': video_id,
                    'ie_key': 'Youtube',
                    'id': 'video_id',
                    'title': title,
-                })
-
-            # A little optimization - if current page is not
-            # "full", ie. does not contain PAGE_SIZE video ids then
-            # we can assume that this page is the last one - there
-            # are no more ids on further pages - no need to query
-            # again.
-
-            if len(entries) < self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE:
-                break
+                }
+        url_results = PagedList(download_page, self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE)

        return self.playlist_result(url_results, playlist_title=username)

--- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ class FFmpegMergerPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
    def run(self, info):
        filename = info['filepath']
        args = ['-c', 'copy']
+        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "%s"' % filename)
        self.run_ffmpeg_multiple_files(info['__files_to_merge'], filename, args)
        return True, info

--- a/youtube_dl/update.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/update.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose):
        to_screen(u'youtube-dl is up to date (%s)' % __version__)
        return

-    to_screen(u'Updating to version ' + version_id + '...')
+    to_screen(u'Updating to version ' + version_id + ' ...')
    version = versions_info['versions'][version_id]

    print_notes(to_screen, versions_info['versions'])
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import datetime
 import email.utils
 import errno
 import gzip
+import itertools
 import io
 import json
 import locale
@@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ if sys.version_info >= (2,7):
    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
        """ Find the xpath xpath[@key=val] """
        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z]+$', key)
-        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s]*$', val)
+        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s:._]*$', val)
        expr = xpath + u"[@%s='%s']" % (key, val)
        return node.find(expr)
 else:
@@ -1092,9 +1093,12 @@ def month_by_name(name):
        return None


-def fix_xml_all_ampersand(xml_str):
+def fix_xml_ampersands(xml_str):
    """Replace all the '&' by '&amp;' in XML"""
-    return xml_str.replace(u'&', u'&amp;')
+    return re.sub(
+        r'&(?!amp;|lt;|gt;|apos;|quot;|#x[0-9a-fA-F]{,4};|#[0-9]{,4};)',
+        u'&amp;',
+        xml_str)


 def setproctitle(title):
@@ -1128,8 +1132,8 @@ class HEADRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
        return "HEAD"


-def int_or_none(v):
-    return v if v is None else int(v)
+def int_or_none(v, scale=1):
+    return v if v is None else (int(v) // scale)


 def parse_duration(s):
@@ -1161,3 +1165,50 @@ def check_executable(exe, args=[]):
    except OSError:
        return False
    return exe
+
+
+class PagedList(object):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        # This is only useful for tests
+        return len(self.getslice())
+
+    def getslice(self, start=0, end=None):
+        res = []
+        for pagenum in itertools.count(start // self._pagesize):
+            firstid = pagenum * self._pagesize
+            nextfirstid = pagenum * self._pagesize + self._pagesize
+            if start >= nextfirstid:
+                continue
+
+            page_results = list(self._pagefunc(pagenum))
+
+            startv = (
+                start % self._pagesize
+                if firstid <= start < nextfirstid
+                else 0)
+
+            endv = (
+                ((end - 1) % self._pagesize) + 1
+                if (end is not None and firstid <= end <= nextfirstid)
+                else None)
+
+            if startv != 0 or endv is not None:
+                page_results = page_results[startv:endv]
+            res.extend(page_results)
+
+            # A little optimization - if current page is not "full", ie. does
+            # not contain page_size videos then we can assume that this page
+            # is the last one - there are no more ids on further pages -
+            # i.e. no need to query again.
+            if len(page_results) + startv < self._pagesize:
+                break
+
+            # If we got the whole page, but the next page is not interesting,
+            # break out early as well
+            if end == nextfirstid:
+                break
+        return res
--- a/youtube_dl/version.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@

-__version__ = '2014.01.17.2'
+__version__ = '2014.01.23.1'
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Philipp Hagemeister	9dab1b7f28	release 2014.01.23.1	2014-01-23 10:37:34 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	d3e5bbf437	Correct --max-downloads with --ignore-errors	2014-01-23 10:36:47 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	18a25c5d78	Clarify update output (Fixes #2205 ) No, we are not intentionally hiding the version number. Why would we?	2014-01-23 10:24:44 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	924f47f7b6	[rottentomatoes] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-23 04:05:58 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	22ff1c4a93	[xhamster] Futher simplification	2014-01-23 04:04:39 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	35409e1101	[xhamster] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-23 03:52:59 +01:00
Mike Col	65d781128a	[xhamster] Add support for hd video Signed-off-by: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>	2014-01-23 03:51:09 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	c35b1b07e2	release 2014.01.23	2014-01-23 00:13:00 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	066f6a0630	[nowness] Add support	2014-01-23 00:12:47 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	12ed57418c	[gamespot] Fix regexp	2014-01-22 22:31:19 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	8b1be5cd73	Move --youtube-include-dash-manifest into correct option group	2014-01-22 22:17:53 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	780083dbc6	release 2014.01.22.5	2014-01-22 21:57:17 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	4919603f66	[youtube] Make DASH manifest download conditional for now DASH download fails on many videos (all with encrypted signatures? not sure yet), for example 07FYdnEawAQ, with a 403.	2014-01-22 21:56:38 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	dd26ced164	Add __len__ to PagedLists	2014-01-22 21:43:33 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	bd2d82a5d3	[newgrounds] Simplify	2014-01-22 21:41:28 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	c4cd138b92	release 2014.01.22.4	2014-01-22 21:01:52 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	65697b3bf3	Merge branch 'paged-lists' Conflicts: test/test_utils.py youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py	2014-01-22 20:00:16 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	50317b111d	Merge branch 'youtube-dash-manifest' Conflicts: youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py	2014-01-22 19:58:31 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	d7975ea287	[xvideos] Simplify	2014-01-22 19:02:48 +01:00
Mike Col	714d709a31	[xvideos] Fix thumbnail extraction Signed-off-by: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>	2014-01-22 19:01:41 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	11577ec054	[cspan] Disable test It works fine from all my machines, no matter where, but from travis, we get lots of 403s. Maybe another project is scraping CSPAN from travis and they're blocking the travis machines?	2014-01-22 15:10:02 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	79bf58f9b5	Document -f worstaudio as well	2014-01-22 14:55:45 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	cd8a562267	release 2014.01.22.3	2014-01-22 14:53:36 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	de3ef3ed58	Default to -f best-audio when only audio is requested	2014-01-22 14:53:23 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	8908741806	Use unicode_literals in test_YoutubeDL	2014-01-22 14:48:02 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	ba7678f9cc	Add -f bestaudio (Fixes #2163 )	2014-01-22 14:47:29 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	a70c83768e	release 2014.01.22.2	2014-01-22 14:33:16 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	04b4d394d9	Add new --default-search option (#2193 )	2014-01-22 14:16:43 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	130f12985a	[comedycentral] Use the generic `_real_extract` provided by the base class	2014-01-22 11:44:26 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	4ca5d43cd8	Merge pull request #2195 from dstftw/master [space] Add support for mobile URLs	2014-01-22 02:39:17 -08:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	4bbf139aa7	[southparkstudios] Use the generic `_real_extract` provided by the base class	2014-01-22 11:35:17 +01:00
dst	47739636a9	[space] Add support for mobile URLs	2014-01-22 17:25:32 +07:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	407ae733ab	[cspan] Make ‘www’ optional and improve the regex for extracting the id (fixes #2194 )	2014-01-22 11:06:03 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	c39f7013e1	[gametrailers] Use the generic `_real_extract` provided by the base class	2014-01-22 10:51:17 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	a4a028323e	[comedycentral] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-22 03:50:49 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	780ee4e501	[comedycentral] Adapt testcase In contrast to other sites, ComedyCentral seems to understand how to sensibly use MTV IE, but the additional text shouldn't hurt.	2014-01-22 03:49:17 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	d7b51547c0	[imdb:list] Switch to loading the webpage The RSS method seems to be defunct.	2014-01-22 03:41:25 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	43030f36db	[d8] typo	2014-01-22 03:10:31 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	48c63f1653	[d8] disable test; video got deleted	2014-01-22 03:09:21 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	90f479b6d5	[novamov] Skip tests	2014-01-22 03:04:10 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	6fd2957163	release 2014.01.22.1	2014-01-22 02:17:00 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	d3a1c71917	[ringtv] Fix and add news extraction	2014-01-22 02:16:40 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	af1588c05f	[mtv] Update tests and xpath function for new title extraction	2014-01-22 02:04:51 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	2250865fb0	[Wimp] Use new URL relay method	2014-01-22 02:01:39 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	99f770caa8	[hotnewhiphop] Retrieve media key	2014-01-22 01:55:50 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	00122de6a9	[gametrailers/mtv] Fix pre-3.x compatibility function for find_xpath_attr Fixes #2189	2014-01-22 01:04:12 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	a70515c0fd	[servingsys] Do not run test on travis Apparantly, even the advertisers do geoblocking now!? From the US, this isn't outright blocked, but there are no videos returned.	2014-01-22 00:27:18 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	398edd0689	release 2014.01.22	2014-01-22 00:21:41 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	6562df768d	Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rg3/youtube-dl Conflicts: youtube_dl/extractor/mtv.py	2014-01-22 00:21:27 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	06769acd71	[gametrailers] Use unicode_literals Conflicts: youtube_dl/extractor/gametrailers.py	2014-01-22 00:18:52 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	32dac6943d	[mtv] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-22 00:18:09 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	90834c78fe	[mtv] Fix title for gametrailers (Fixes #2188 ) We now prefer the title including the category, because that title is what is presented at the actual sites.	2014-01-22 00:17:33 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	47917f24c4	[brightcove] Fix extraction of embedded videos There was a leading ‘:’ in the regex. The ‘flashvars’ parameter is not always available.	2014-01-21 22:04:46 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	d614aa40e3	[brightcove] Fix check for url in the result It may have the ‘formats’ field instead of ‘url’.	2014-01-21 21:53:10 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	bc4ba05fcb	[mtv] Add an extractor for mtviggy.com (#2072 )	2014-01-21 20:59:31 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	8d9453b9e8	Add an extractor for spike.com (#2072 ) Added a generic _real_extract to MTVServicesInfoExtractor	2014-01-21 20:54:47 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	e4f320a4d0	[mtv] Check for geo-blocked videos in the xml document, not in the xml’s string Allows to use the `_download_xml` method	2014-01-21 19:59:02 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	ef9f2ba7af	[mtv] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-21 19:58:21 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	4a3b72771f	release 2014.01.21.1	2014-01-21 18:21:53 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	913f32929b	[vk] Add support for HQ videos (Fixes #2187 )	2014-01-21 18:21:44 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	9834872bf6	[facebook] Add support for embeds Example URL: http://www.hostblogger.de/blog/archives/6181-Auto-jagt-Betonmischer.html	2014-01-21 18:10:17 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	94a23d2a1e	[vk] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-21 17:32:03 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	608bf69880	[vk] avoid built-in names	2014-01-21 17:29:04 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	032b3df5af	[redtube] Use unicode_literals	2014-01-21 14:16:44 +01:00
Mike Col	9d11a41fe4	[redtube] Add support for thumbnails Signed-off-by: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>	2014-01-21 14:14:55 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	2989501131	release 2014.01.21	2014-01-21 14:07:41 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	7b0817e8e1	[servingsys] Add support This also adds support for brightcove advertisements. Fixes #2181	2014-01-21 02:09:51 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	9d4288b2d4	[extractor/common] Clarify when and when not we generate the filename	2014-01-21 01:41:13 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	3486df383b	[generic] Improve testcase	2014-01-21 01:40:34 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	b60016e831	Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM	2014-01-21 01:39:40 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	5aafe895fc	Correct XML ampersand fixup	2014-01-20 22:11:34 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	b853d2e155	release 2014.01.20	2014-01-20 11:44:37 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	b7ab059084	Add infrastructure for paged lists This commit allows to download pages in playlists as needed instead of all at once. Before this commit, youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/user/ANNnewsCH/videos --playlist-end 2 --skip-download took quite some time - now it's almost instantaneous. As an example, the youtube:user extractor has been converted. Fixes #2175	2014-01-20 11:36:47 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	c91778f8c0	[youtube] Fall back to header if playlist title is not available Sometimes (in about 10% of requests), the og:title is missing for a weird reason. See #2170 for an example	2014-01-20 02:45:51 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	5016f3eac8	[myspace] More robust mediatype check	2014-01-20 02:44:08 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	efb1bb90a0	[myspace] Add support for song urls (fixes #2040 )	2014-01-19 11:38:48 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	4cf393bb4b	[dropbox] Correct test case (#2171 )	2014-01-19 06:16:40 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	ce4e242a6f	[dropbox] PEP8 and simplify (#2171 )	2014-01-19 06:14:24 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	b27bec212f	Merge remote-tracking branch 'sahutd/master'	2014-01-19 06:12:20 +01:00
sahutd	704519c7e3	Modified dropbox to reflect small changes	2014-01-19 10:24:20 +05:30
sahutd	6b79f40c3d	Added support for Dropbox	2014-01-19 10:20:26 +05:30
Philipp Hagemeister	dd27fd1739	[youtube] Download DASH manifest If given, download and parse the DASH manifest file, in order to get ultra-HQ formats. Fixes #2166	2014-01-19 05:47:20 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	dfa50793d8	Merge pull request #2153 from jaimeMF/ffmpeg-merger-check-install Don’t try to merge the formats if ffmpeg or avconv are not installed	2014-01-18 20:42:51 -08:00
sahutd	2a7c35dd46	added dropbox support	2014-01-18 20:50:42 +05:30
sahutd	f2ffd10bb2	Update __init__.py	2014-01-18 20:48:43 +05:30
sahutd	8da531359e	Added dropbox support. issue #2055	2014-01-18 20:45:53 +05:30
Philipp Hagemeister	e2b944cf43	Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rg3/youtube-dl	2014-01-17 14:48:15 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	3ec05685f7	[extractor/common] Limit --write-pages filename to 200 chars This avoids problems with very long URLs.	2014-01-17 14:47:47 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	e103fd46ca	FFmpegMergerPP: Print an info message with the destination before running ffmpeg	2014-01-17 14:31:23 +01:00
Philipp Hagemeister	877bfd69d1	[cnn] Improve test	2014-01-17 05:06:13 +01:00
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz	58c3c7ae38	Don’t try to merge the formats if ffmpeg or avconv are not installed	2014-01-15 12:59:15 +01:00