_real_extract
In contrast to other sites, ComedyCentral seems to understand how to sensibly use MTV IE, but the additional text shouldn't hurt.
The RSS method seems to be defunct.
Fixes #2189
Apparantly, even the advertisers do geoblocking now!? From the US, this isn't outright blocked, but there are no videos returned.
Conflicts: youtube_dl/extractor/mtv.py
Conflicts: youtube_dl/extractor/gametrailers.py
We now prefer the title including the category, because that title is what is presented at the actual sites.
There was a leading ‘:’ in the regex. The ‘flashvars’ parameter is not always available.
It may have the ‘formats’ field instead of ‘url’.
Added a generic _real_extract to MTVServicesInfoExtractor
Allows to use the `_download_xml` method
Example URL: http://www.hostblogger.de/blog/archives/6181-Auto-jagt-Betonmischer.html
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
This also adds support for brightcove advertisements. Fixes #2181
These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM
Sometimes (in about 10% of requests), the og:title is missing for a weird reason. See #2170 for an example
Don’t try to merge the formats if ffmpeg or avconv are not installed