For some extractors that are hard to workout a good _VALID_URL we use very vague and unrestrictive ones,
e.g. just allowing anything after hostname and capturing part of URL as id.
If some of these extractors happen to have an video embed of some different hoster or platform
and this scenario was not handled in extractor itself we end up with inability to download this embed
until extractor is fixed to support embed of this kind.
Forcing downloader to use the generic extractor can be a neat temporary solution for this problem.
Example: FiveTV extractor with Tvigle embed - http://www.5-tv.ru/rabota/broadcasts/48/
This is a workaround. Currently YoutubeDL.process_info() truncates
info_dict['title'] to 200 characters, but the implementation can't
handle wide characters.
Discovery.com now uses a completely different approach for serving
videos. At least in both test cases brightcove are involved. However,
AMF support is necessary for these brightcove videos. As a result, I
try to extract videos from the info page ('?flat=1'). The downloaded
file can be different from the one in browsers.