Release 2021.03.21

Update to ytdl-commit-7e79ba7
7e79ba7dd6 [vimeo:album] Fix extraction for albums with number of videos multiple to page size
2025-12-17 11:22:23 +01:00 · 2021-03-22 02:56:39 +05:30 · 2021-03-22 02:56:38 +05:30 · 2021-03-22 02:53:34 +05:30 · 2021-03-21 21:27:33 +05:30 · 2021-03-21 21:26:31 +05:30
68 changed files with 3349 additions and 1534 deletions
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/1_broken_site.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/1_broken_site.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ assignees: ''

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+- [ ] I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version **2021.03.15**
 - [ ] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
 - [ ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
 - [ ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Add the `-v` flag to your command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -v <your com
 [debug] User config: []
 [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
- [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.03.01
+ [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.03.15
 [debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
 [debug] Proxy map: {}
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2_site_support_request.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2_site_support_request.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ assignees: ''

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 - [ ] I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
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--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/3_site_feature_request.md
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@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ assignees: ''

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--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/4_bug_report.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/4_bug_report.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ assignees: ''

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 - [ ] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
 - [ ] I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Add the `-v` flag to your command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -v <your com
 [debug] User config: []
 [debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
- [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.03.01
+ [debug] yt-dlp version 2021.03.15
 [debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
 [debug] Proxy map: {}
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/5_feature_request.md
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@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ assignees: ''

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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ yt-dlp.zip
 *.mkv
 *.swf
 *.part
+*.part-*
 *.ytdl
 *.dump
 *.frag
--- a/7
+++ b/7
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 pukkandan (owner)
 shirt-dev (collaborator)
+colethedj (collaborator)
 h-h-h-h
 pauldubois98
 nixxo
@@ -21,10 +22,12 @@ nao20010128nao
 kurumigi
 tsukumi
 bbepis
+animelover1984
 Pccode66
-Ashish
+Ashish0804
 RobinD42
 hseg
-colethedj
 DennyDai
 codeasashu
+teesid
+kevinoconnor7
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -17,6 +17,74 @@
 -->


+### 2021.03.21
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [commit/7e79ba7](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/7e79ba7dd6e6649dd2ce3a74004b2044f2182881)
+* Option `--clean-infojson` to keep private keys in the infojson
+* [aria2c] Support retry/abort unavailable fragments by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda)
+* [aria2c] Better default arguments
+* [movefiles] Fix bugs and make more robust
+* [formatSort] Fix `quality` being ignored
+* [splitchapters] Fix for older ffmpeg
+* [sponskrub] Pass proxy to sponskrub
+* Make sure `post_hook` gets the final filename
+* Recursively remove any private keys from infojson
+* Embed video URL metadata inside `mp4` by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* Merge `webm` formats into `mkv` if thumbnails are to be embedded by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda)
+* Use headers and cookies when downloading subtitles by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda)
+* Parse resolution in info dictionary by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda)
+* More consistent warning messages by [damianoamatruda](https://github.com/damianoamatruda) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [documentation] Add deprecated options and aliases in readme
+* [documentation] Fix some minor mistakes
+
+* [niconico] Partial fix adapted from [animelover1984/youtube-dl@b5eff52](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl/commit/b5eff52dd9ed5565672ea1694b38c9296db3fade) (login and smile formats still don't work)
+* [niconico] Add user extractor by [animelover1984](https://github.com/animelover1984)
+* [bilibili] Add anthology support by [animelover1984](https://github.com/animelover1984)
+* [amcnetworks] Fix extractor by [2ShedsJackson](https://github.com/2ShedsJackson)
+* [stitcher] Merge from youtube-dl by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [rcs] Improved extraction by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [linuxacadamy] Improve regex
+* [youtube] Show if video is `private`, `unlisted` etc in info (`availability`) by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [youtube] bugfix for channel playlist extraction
+* [nbc] Improve metadata extraction by [2ShedsJackson](https://github.com/2ShedsJackson)
+
+
+### 2021.03.15
+* **Split video by chapters**: using option `--split-chapters`
+    * The output file of the split files can be set with `-o`/`-P` using the prefix `chapter:`
+    * Additional keys `section_title`, `section_number`, `section_start`, `section_end` are available in the output template
+* **Parallel fragment downloads** by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
+    * Use option `--concurrent-fragments` (`-N`) to set the number of threads (default 1)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [commit/3be0980](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/3be098010f667b14075e3dfad1e74e5e2becc8ea)
+* [zee5] Add Show Extractor by [Ashish0804](https://github.com/Ashish0804) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [rai] fix drm check [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [wimtv] Add extractor by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [mtv] Add mtv.it and extract series metadata by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [pluto.tv] Add extractor by [kevinoconnor7](https://github.com/kevinoconnor7)
+* [youtube] Rewrite comment extraction by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
+* [embedthumbnail] Set mtime correctly
+* Refactor some postprocessor/downloader code by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan) and [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
+
+
+### 2021.03.07
+* [youtube] Fix history, mixes, community pages and trending by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan) and [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
+* [youtube] Fix private feeds/playlists on multi-channel accounts by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
+* [youtube] Extract alerts from continuation by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
+* [cbs] Add support for ParamountPlus by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
+* [mxplayer] Rewrite extractor with show support by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan) and [Ashish0804](https://github.com/Ashish0804)
+* [gedi] Improvements from youtube-dl by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [vimeo] Fix videos with password by [teesid](https://github.com/teesid)
+* [lbry] Support `lbry://` url by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [bilibili] Change `Accept` header by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan) and [animelover1984](https://github.com/animelover1984)
+* [trovo] Pass origin header
+* [rai] Check for DRM by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [downloader] Fix bug for `ffmpeg`/`httpie`
+* [update] Fix updater removing the executable bit on some UNIX distros
+* [update] Fix current build hash for UNIX
+* [documentation] Include wget/curl/aria2c install instructions for Unix by [Ashish0804](https://github.com/Ashish0804)
+* Fix some videos downloading with `m3u8` extension
+* Remove "fixup is ignored" warning when fixup wasn't passed by user
+
+
 ### 2021.03.03.2
 * [build] Fix bug

@@ -24,10 +92,10 @@
 ### 2021.03.03
 * [youtube] Use new browse API for continuation page extraction by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
 * Fix HLS playlist downloading by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.03.03](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.03.03)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.03.03](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.03.03)
 * [mtv] Fix extractor
 * [nick] Fix extractor by [DennyDai](https://github.com/DennyDai)
-* [mxplayer] Add new extractor by[codeasashu](https://github.com/codeasashu)
+* [mxplayer] Add new extractor by [codeasashu](https://github.com/codeasashu)
 * [youtube] Throw error when `--extractor-retries` are exhausted
 * Reduce default of `--extractor-retries` to 3
 * Fix packaging bugs by [hseg](https://github.com/hseg)
@@ -59,10 +127,10 @@
 * Moved project to an organization [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp)
 * **Completely changed project name to yt-dlp** by [Pccode66](https://github.com/Pccode66) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
    * Also, `youtube-dlc` config files are no longer loaded
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [commit/4460329](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/44603290e5002153f3ebad6230cc73aef42cc2cd) (except tmz, gedi)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [commit/4460329](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/44603290e5002153f3ebad6230cc73aef42cc2cd) (except tmz, gedi)
 * [Readthedocs](https://yt-dlp.readthedocs.io) support by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
 * [youtube] Show if video was a live stream in info (`was_live`)
-* [Zee5] Add new extractor by [Ashish](https://github.com/Ashish) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [Zee5] Add new extractor by [Ashish0804](https://github.com/Ashish0804) and [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
 * [jwplatform] Add support for `hyland.com`
 * [tennistv] Fix extractor
 * [hls] Support media initialization by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
@@ -77,7 +145,7 @@


 ### 2021.02.19
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [commit/cf2dbec](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/cf2dbec6301177a1fddf72862de05fa912d9869d) (except kakao)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [commit/cf2dbec](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/cf2dbec6301177a1fddf72862de05fa912d9869d) (except kakao)
 * [viki] Fix extractor
 * [niconico] Extract `channel` and `channel_id` by [kurumigi](https://github.com/kurumigi)
 * [youtube] Multiple page support for hashtag URLs
@@ -102,7 +170,7 @@


 ### 2021.02.15
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.02.10](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.02.10) (except archive.org)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.02.10](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.02.10) (except archive.org)
 * [niconico] Improved extraction and support encrypted/SMILE movies by [kurumigi](https://github.com/kurumigi), [tsukumi](https://github.com/tsukumi), [bbepis](https://github.com/bbepis), [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
 * Fix HLS AES-128 with multiple keys in external downloaders by [shirt](https://github.com/shirt-dev)
 * [youtube_live_chat] Fix by using POST API by [siikamiika](https://github.com/siikamiika)
@@ -145,7 +213,7 @@


 ### 2021.02.04
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.02.04.1](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.02.04.1)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.02.04.1](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.02.04.1)
 * **Date/time formatting in output template:**
    * You can use [`strftime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) to format date/time fields. Example: `%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s`
 * **Multiple output templates:**
@@ -199,7 +267,7 @@


 ### 2021.01.24
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.01.24](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.16)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.01.24](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.16)
 * Plugin support ([documentation](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#plugins))
 * **Multiple paths**: New option `-P`/`--paths` to give different paths for different types of files
    * The syntax is `-P "type:path" -P "type:path"` ([documentation](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#:~:text=-P,%20--paths%20TYPE:PATH))
@@ -228,7 +296,7 @@


 ### 2021.01.16
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.01.16](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.16)
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.01.16](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.16)
 * **Configuration files:**
    * Portable configuration file: `./yt-dlp.conf`
    * Allow the configuration files to be named `yt-dlp` instead of `youtube-dlc`. See [this](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#configuration) for details
@@ -258,7 +326,7 @@
 * [archive.org] Fix extractor and add support for audio and playlists by [wporr](https://github.com/wporr)
 * [Animelab] Added by [mariuszskon](https://github.com/mariuszskon)
 * [youtube:search] Fix view_count by [ohnonot](https://github.com/ohnonot)
-* [youtube] Show if video is embeddable in info
+* [youtube] Show if video is embeddable in info (`playable_in_embed`)
 * Update version badge automatically in README
 * Enable `test_youtube_search_matching`
 * Create `to_screen` and similar functions in postprocessor/common
@@ -274,8 +342,7 @@


 ### 2021.01.08
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.01.08](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.08)
-    * Extractor stitcher ([1](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/bb38a1215718cdf36d73ff0a7830a64cd9fa37cc), [2](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/a563c97c5cddf55f8989ed7ea8314ef78e30107f)) have not been merged
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.01.08](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.01.08) except stitcher ([1](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/bb38a1215718cdf36d73ff0a7830a64cd9fa37cc), [2](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/a563c97c5cddf55f8989ed7ea8314ef78e30107f))
 * Moved changelog to seperate file


@@ -314,7 +381,7 @@
    * Changed video format sorting to show video only files and video+audio files together.
    * Added `--video-multistreams`, `--no-video-multistreams`, `--audio-multistreams`, `--no-audio-multistreams`
    * Added `b`,`w`,`v`,`a` as alias for `best`, `worst`, `video` and `audio` respectively
-* **Shortcut Options:** Added `--write-link`, `--write-url-link`, `--write-webloc-link`, `--write-desktop-link` by [h-h-h-h](https://github.com/h-h-h-h) - See [Internet Shortcut Options](README.md#internet-shortcut-options) for details
+* Shortcut Options: Added `--write-link`, `--write-url-link`, `--write-webloc-link`, `--write-desktop-link` by [h-h-h-h](https://github.com/h-h-h-h) - See [Internet Shortcut Options](README.md#internet-shortcut-options) for details
 * **Sponskrub integration:** Added `--sponskrub`, `--sponskrub-cut`, `--sponskrub-force`, `--sponskrub-location`, `--sponskrub-args` - See [SponSkrub Options](README.md#sponskrub-sponsorblock-options) for details
 * Added `--force-download-archive` (`--force-write-archive`) by [h-h-h-h](https://github.com/h-h-h-h)
 * Added `--list-formats-as-table`,  `--list-formats-old`
@@ -324,36 +391,38 @@
 * Relaxed validation for format filters so that any arbitrary field can be used
 * Fix for embedding thumbnail in mp3 by [pauldubois98](https://github.com/pauldubois98) ([ytdl-org/youtube-dl#21569](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/21569))
 * Make Twitch Video ID output from Playlist and VOD extractor same. This is only a temporary fix
-* **Merge youtube-dl:** Upto [2021.01.03](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/8e953dcbb10a1a42f4e12e4e132657cb0100a1f8) - See [blackjack4494/yt-dlc#280](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/pull/280) for details
+* Merge youtube-dl: Upto [2021.01.03](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/8e953dcbb10a1a42f4e12e4e132657cb0100a1f8) - See [blackjack4494/yt-dlc#280](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/pull/280) for details
    * Extractors [tiktok](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/fb626c05867deab04425bad0c0b16b55473841a2) and [hotstar](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/bb38a1215718cdf36d73ff0a7830a64cd9fa37cc) have not been merged
 * Cleaned up the fork for public use


+**PS**: All uncredited changes above this point are authored by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+
 ### Unreleased changes in [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)
-* Updated to youtube-dl release 2020.11.26
-* [youtube]
+* Updated to youtube-dl release 2020.11.26 by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* Youtube improvements by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
    * Implemented all Youtube Feeds (ytfav, ytwatchlater, ytsubs, ythistory, ytrec) and SearchURL
-    * Fix ytsearch not returning results sometimes due to promoted content
-    * Temporary fix for automatic captions - disable json3
    * Fix some improper Youtube URLs
    * Redirect channel home to /video
    * Print youtube's warning message
-    * Multiple pages are handled better for feeds
+    * Handle Multiple pages for feeds better
+* [youtube] Fix ytsearch not returning results sometimes due to promoted content by [colethedj](https://github.com/colethedj)
+* [youtube] Temporary fix for automatic captions - disable json3 by [blackjack4494](https://github.com/blackjack4494)
 * Add --break-on-existing by [gergesh](https://github.com/gergesh)
-* Pre-check video IDs in the archive before downloading
-* [bitwave.tv] New extractor
-* [Gedi] Add extractor
-* [Rcs] Add new extractor
-* [skyit] Add support for multiple Sky Italia website and removed old skyitalia extractor
-* [france.tv] Fix thumbnail URL
-* [ina] support mobile links
-* [instagram] Fix extractor
-* [itv] BTCC new pages' URL update (articles instead of races)
-* [SouthparkDe] Support for English URLs
-* [spreaker] fix SpreakerShowIE test URL
-* [Vlive] Fix playlist handling when downloading a channel
-* [generic] Detect embedded bitchute videos
-* [generic] Extract embedded youtube and twitter videos
-* [ffmpeg] Ensure all streams are copied
-* Fix for os.rename error when embedding thumbnail to video in a different drive
-* make_win.bat: don't use UPX to pack vcruntime140.dll
+* Pre-check video IDs in the archive before downloading by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [bitwave.tv] New extractor by [lorpus](https://github.com/lorpus)
+* [Gedi] Add extractor by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [Rcs] Add new extractor by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [skyit] New skyitalia extractor by [nixxo](https://github.com/nixxo)
+* [france.tv] Fix thumbnail URL by [renalid](https://github.com/renalid)
+* [ina] support mobile links by [B0pol](https://github.com/B0pol)
+* [instagram] Fix thumbnail extractor by [nao20010128nao](https://github.com/nao20010128nao)
+* [SouthparkDe] Support for English URLs by [xypwn](https://github.com/xypwn)
+* [spreaker] fix SpreakerShowIE test URL by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [Vlive] Fix playlist handling when downloading a channel by [kyuyeunk](https://github.com/kyuyeunk)
+* [tmz] Fix extractor by [diegorodriguezv](https://github.com/diegorodriguezv)
+* [generic] Detect embedded bitchute videos by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [generic] Extract embedded youtube and twitter videos by [diegorodriguezv](https://github.com/diegorodriguezv)
+* [ffmpeg] Ensure all streams are copied by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* [embedthumbnail] Fix for os.rename error by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
+* make_win.bat: don't use UPX to pack vcruntime140.dll by [jbruchon](https://github.com/jbruchon)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@

 A command-line program to download videos from youtube.com and many other [video platforms](supportedsites.md)

-This is a fork of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) which is inturn a fork of [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
+This is a [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) fork based on the now inactive [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc). The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project

 * [NEW FEATURES](#new-features)
 * [INSTALLATION](#installation)
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ This is a fork of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) which i
    * [Sorting Formats](#sorting-formats)
    * [Format Selection examples](#format-selection-examples)
 * [PLUGINS](#plugins)
+* [DEPRECATED OPTIONS](#deprecated-options)
 * [MORE](#more)


@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ The major new features from the latest release of [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https:/

 * **[Format Sorting](#sorting-formats)**: The default format sorting options have been changed so that higher resolution and better codecs will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate. Furthermore, you can now specify the sort order using `-S`. This allows for much easier format selection that what is possible by simply using `--format` ([examples](#format-selection-examples))

-* **Merged with youtube-dl v2021.03.03**: You get all the latest features and patches of [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) in addition to all the features of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)
+* **Merged with youtube-dl v2021.03.14**: You get all the latest features and patches of [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) in addition to all the features of [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)

 * **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from [animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including `--get-comments`, `BiliBiliSearch`, `BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, Playlist infojson etc. Note that the NicoNico improvements are not available. See [#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.

@@ -66,17 +67,19 @@ The major new features from the latest release of [blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https:/
    * Youtube search (`ytsearch:`, `ytsearchdate:`) along with Search URLs works correctly
    * Redirect channel's home URL automatically to `/video` to preserve the old behaviour

+* **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using `--split-chapters`
+
+* **Multithreaded fragment downloads**: Fragment downloads can be natively multi-threaded. Use `--concurrent-fragments` (`-N`) option to set the number of threads used
+
 * **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use aria2c as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats. No more slow ffmpeg/native downloads

-* **New extractors**: AnimeLab, Philo MSO, Rcs, Gedi, bitwave.tv, mildom, audius, zee5
+* **New extractors**: AnimeLab, Philo MSO, Rcs, Gedi, bitwave.tv, mildom, audius, zee5, mtv.it, wimtv, pluto.tv

-* **Fixed extractors**: archive.org, roosterteeth.com, skyit, instagram, itv, SouthparkDe, spreaker, Vlive, tiktok, akamai, ina, rumble, tennistv
+* **Fixed extractors**: archive.org, roosterteeth.com, skyit, instagram, itv, SouthparkDe, spreaker, Vlive, tiktok, akamai, ina, rumble, tennistv, amcnetworks

-* **Plugin support**: Extractors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
+* **Plugin extractors**: Extractors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details

-* **Multiple paths and output templates**: You can give different [output templates](#output-template) and download paths for different types of files. You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to. See [`--paths`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/#:~:text=-P,%20--paths%20TYPE:PATH) for details
-
-<!-- Relative link doesn't work for "#:~:text=" -->
+* **Multiple paths and output templates**: You can give different [output templates](#output-template) and download paths for different types of files. You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to using `--paths` (`-P`)

 * **Portable Configuration**: Configuration files are automatically loaded from the home and root directories. See [configuration](#configuration) for details

@@ -103,6 +106,23 @@ You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:
 * Use pip+git: `python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git@release`
 * Install master branch: `python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp`

+UNIX users (Linux, macOS, BSD) can also install the [latest release](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest) one of the following ways:
+
+```
+sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+```
+
+```
+sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+```
+
+```
+sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
+```
+
 ### UPDATE
 Starting from version `2021.02.09`, you can use `yt-dlp -U` to update if you are using the provided release.
 If you are using `pip`, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program.
@@ -177,7 +197,7 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
                                     only list them
    --no-flat-playlist               Extract the videos of a playlist
    --mark-watched                   Mark videos watched (YouTube only)
-    --no-mark-watched                Do not mark videos watched
+    --no-mark-watched                Do not mark videos watched (default)
    --no-colors                      Do not emit color codes in output

 ## Network Options:
@@ -280,6 +300,8 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
    --no-include-ads                 Do not download advertisements (default)

 ## Download Options:
+    -N, --concurrent-fragments N     Number of fragments to download
+                                     concurrently (default is 1)
    -r, --limit-rate RATE            Maximum download rate in bytes per second
                                     (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
    -R, --retries RETRIES            Number of retries (default is 10), or
@@ -402,6 +424,11 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
                                     --write-description etc. (default)
    --no-write-playlist-metafiles    Do not write playlist metadata when using
                                     --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
+    --clean-infojson                 Remove some private fields such as
+                                     filenames from the infojson. Note that it
+                                     could still contain some personal
+                                     information (default)
+    --no-clean-infojson              Write all fields to the infojson
    --get-comments                   Retrieve video comments to be placed in the
                                     .info.json file. The comments are fetched
                                     even without this option if the extraction
@@ -445,7 +472,8 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
    --no-warnings                    Ignore warnings
    -s, --simulate                   Do not download the video and do not write
                                     anything to disk
-    --skip-download                  Do not download the video
+    --skip-download                  Do not download the video but write all
+                                     related files (Alias: --no-download)
    -g, --get-url                    Simulate, quiet but print URL
    -e, --get-title                  Simulate, quiet but print title
    --get-id                         Simulate, quiet but print id
@@ -482,7 +510,7 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
    --encoding ENCODING              Force the specified encoding (experimental)
    --no-check-certificate           Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
    --prefer-insecure                Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
-                                     information about the video. (Currently
+                                     information about the video (Currently
                                     supported only for YouTube)
    --user-agent UA                  Specify a custom user agent
    --referer URL                    Specify a custom referer, use if the video
@@ -496,15 +524,11 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
    --sleep-requests SECONDS         Number of seconds to sleep between requests
                                     during data extraction
    --sleep-interval SECONDS         Number of seconds to sleep before each
-                                     download when used alone or a lower bound
-                                     of a range for randomized sleep before each
-                                     download (minimum possible number of
-                                     seconds to sleep) when used along with
-                                     --max-sleep-interval
-    --max-sleep-interval SECONDS     Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
-                                     before each download (maximum possible
-                                     number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
-                                     used along with --min-sleep-interval
+                                     download. This is the minimum time to sleep
+                                     when used along with --max-sleep-interval
+                                     (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)
+    --max-sleep-interval SECONDS     Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can
+                                     only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
    --sleep-subtitles SECONDS        Number of seconds to sleep before each
                                     subtitle download

@@ -554,16 +578,16 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
    --write-subs                     Write subtitle file
    --no-write-subs                  Do not write subtitle file (default)
    --write-auto-subs                Write automatically generated subtitle file
-                                     (YouTube only)
-    --no-write-auto-subs             Do not write automatically generated
-                                     subtitle file (default)
+                                     (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
+    --no-write-auto-subs             Do not write auto-generated subtitles
+                                     (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
    --all-subs                       Download all the available subtitles of the
                                     video
    --list-subs                      List all available subtitles for the video
    --sub-format FORMAT              Subtitle format, accepts formats
                                     preference, for example: "srt" or
                                     "ass/srt/best"
-    --sub-lang LANGS                 Languages of the subtitles to download
+    --sub-langs LANGS                Languages of the subtitles to download
                                     (optional) separated by commas, use --list-
                                     subs for available language tags

@@ -617,18 +641,19 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
                                     ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
                                     EmbedSubtitle, Metadata, Merger,
                                     FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8,
-                                     SubtitlesConvertor and EmbedThumbnail. The
-                                     supported executables are: SponSkrub,
-                                     FFmpeg, FFprobe, and AtomicParsley. You can
-                                     also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the
-                                     arguments to the specified executable only
-                                     when being used by the specified
-                                     postprocessor. Additionally, for
-                                     ffmpeg/ffprobe, a number can be appended to
-                                     the exe name seperated by "_i" to pass the
-                                     argument before the specified input file.
-                                     Eg: --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You
-                                     can use this option multiple times to give
+                                     SubtitlesConvertor, EmbedThumbnail and
+                                     SplitChapters. The supported executables
+                                     are: SponSkrub, FFmpeg, FFprobe, and
+                                     AtomicParsley. You can also specify
+                                     "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
+                                     specified executable only when being used
+                                     by the specified postprocessor.
+                                     Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o"
+                                     can be appended to the prefix optionally
+                                     followed by a number to pass the argument
+                                     before the specified input/output file. Eg:
+                                     --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can
+                                     use this option multiple times to give
                                     different arguments to different
                                     postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
    -k, --keep-video                 Keep the intermediate video file on disk
@@ -672,8 +697,16 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t
                                     downloading and post-processing, similar to
                                     find's -exec syntax. Example: --exec 'adb
                                     push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
-    --convert-subs FORMAT            Convert the subtitles to other format
+    --convert-subs FORMAT            Convert the subtitles to another format
                                     (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)
+                                     (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
+    --split-chapters                 Split video into multiple files based on
+                                     internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix
+                                     can be used with "--paths" and "--output"
+                                     to set the output filename for the split
+                                     files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
+    --no-split-chapters              Do not split video based on chapters
+                                     (default)

 ## SponSkrub (SponsorBlock) Options:
 [SponSkrub](https://github.com/yt-dlp/SponSkrub) is a utility to
@@ -789,9 +822,9 @@ The `-o` option is used to indicate a template for the output file names while `

 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).

-The basic usage of `-o` is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in `yt-dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to [python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting). For example, `%(NAME)s` or `%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations. Date/time fields can also be formatted according to [strftime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) by specifying it inside the parantheses seperated from the field name using a `>`. For example, `%(duration>%H-%M-%S)s`.
+The basic usage of `-o` is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in `yt-dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"` (hard-coding file extension like this is not recommended). However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to [python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting). For example, `%(NAME)s` or `%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations. Date/time fields can also be formatted according to [strftime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) by specifying it inside the parantheses seperated from the field name using a `>`. For example, `%(duration>%H-%M-%S)s`.

-Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files seperately from the general output template by specifying the type of file followed by the template seperated by a colon ":". The different filetypes supported are `subtitle|thumbnail|description|annotation|infojson|pl_description|pl_infojson`. For example, `-o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -o 'thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s'`  will put the thumbnails in a folder with the same name as the video.
+Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files seperately from the general output template by specifying the type of file followed by the template seperated by a colon ":". The different filetypes supported are `subtitle`, `thumbnail`, `description`, `annotation`, `infojson`, `pl_description`, `pl_infojson`, `chapter`. For example, `-o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -o 'thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s'`  will put the thumbnails in a folder with the same name as the video.

 The available fields are:

@@ -800,6 +833,7 @@ The available fields are:
 - `url` (string): Video URL
 - `ext` (string): Video filename extension
 - `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
+ - `description` (string): The description of the video
 - `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
 - `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
 - `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
@@ -823,6 +857,7 @@ The available fields are:
 - `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
 - `was_live` (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream
 - `playable_in_embed` (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites
+ - `availability` (string): Whether the video is 'private', 'premium_only', 'subscriber_only', 'needs_auth', 'unlisted' or 'public'
 - `start_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL
 - `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
 - `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format
@@ -882,6 +917,13 @@ Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
 - `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
 - `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released

+Available when using `--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
+
+ - `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
+ - `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
+ - `section_start` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
+ - `section_end` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
+
 Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with placeholder value provided with `--output-na-placeholder` (`NA` by default).

 For example for `-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title `yt-dlp test video` and id `BaW_jenozKcj`, this will result in a `yt-dlp test video-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4` file created in the current directory.
@@ -1161,5 +1203,39 @@ Plugins are loaded from `<root-dir>/ytdlp_plugins/<type>/__init__.py`. Currently

 **Note**: `<root-dir>` is the directory of the binary (`<root-dir>/yt-dlp`), or the root directory of the module if you are running directly from source-code (`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`)

+# DEPRECATED OPTIONS
+
+These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect
+
+    --cn-verification-proxy URL      --geo-verification-proxy URL
+    --id                             -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
+    -A, --auto-number                -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
+    -t, --title                      -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
+    -l, --literal                    -o accepts literal names
+    --autonumber-size NUMBER         Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)03d
+    --metadata-from-title FORMAT     --parse-metadata "title:FORMAT"
+    --prefer-avconv                  avconv is no longer officially supported (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
+    --prefer-ffmpeg                  Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
+    --avconv-location                avconv is no longer officially supported
+    -C, --call-home                  Not implemented
+    --no-call-home                   Default
+    --write-srt                      --write-subs
+    --no-write-srt                   --no-write-subs
+    --srt-lang LANGS                 --sub-langs LANGS
+    --prefer-unsecure                --prefer-insecure
+    --rate-limit RATE                --limit-rate RATE
+    --force-write-download-archive   --force-write-archive
+    --dump-intermediate-pages        --dump-pages
+    --dump-headers                   --print-traffic
+    --youtube-print-sig-code         No longer supported
+    --trim-file-names LENGTH         --trim-filenames LENGTH
+    --yes-overwrites                 --force-overwrites
+    --load-info                      --load-info-json
+    --split-tracks                   --split-chapters
+    --no-split-tracks                --no-split-chapters
+    --sponskrub-args ARGS            --ppa "sponskrub:ARGS"
+    --test                           Only used for testing extractors
+
+
 # MORE
 For FAQ, Developer Instructions etc., see the [original README](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)
--- a/supportedsites.md
+++ b/supportedsites.md
@@ -347,8 +347,7 @@
 - **Gaskrank**
 - **Gazeta**
 - **GDCVault**
- - **Gedi**
- - **GediEmbeds**
+ - **GediDigital**
 - **generic**: Generic downloader that works on some sites
 - **Gfycat**
 - **GiantBomb**
@@ -544,6 +543,7 @@
 - **mixcloud:playlist**
 - **mixcloud:user**
 - **MLB**
+ - **MLBVideo**
 - **Mnet**
 - **MNetTV**
 - **MoeVideo**: LetitBit video services: moevideo.net, playreplay.net and videochart.net
@@ -562,6 +562,8 @@
 - **mtg**: MTG services
 - **mtv**
 - **mtv.de**
+ - **mtv.it**
+ - **mtv.it:programma**
 - **mtv:video**
 - **mtvjapan**
 - **mtvservices:embedded**
@@ -633,6 +635,7 @@
 - **nicknight**
 - **niconico**: ニコニコ動画
 - **NiconicoPlaylist**
+ - **NiconicoUser**
 - **Nintendo**
 - **Nitter**
 - **njoy**: N-JOY
@@ -735,6 +738,7 @@
 - **Playwire**
 - **pluralsight**
 - **pluralsight:course**
+ - **PlutoTV**
 - **podomatic**
 - **Pokemon**
 - **PokemonWatch**
@@ -915,6 +919,7 @@
 - **stanfordoc**: Stanford Open ClassRoom
 - **Steam**
 - **Stitcher**
+ - **StitcherShow**
 - **StoryFire**
 - **StoryFireSeries**
 - **StoryFireUser**
@@ -1172,6 +1177,7 @@
 - **Weibo**
 - **WeiboMobile**
 - **WeiqiTV**: WQTV
+ - **WimTV**
 - **Wistia**
 - **WistiaPlaylist**
 - **wnl**: npo.nl, ntr.nl, omroepwnl.nl, zapp.nl and npo3.nl
@@ -1242,6 +1248,7 @@
 - **ZDF**
 - **ZDFChannel**
 - **Zee5**
+ - **zee5:series**
 - **Zhihu**
 - **zingmp3**: mp3.zing.vn
 - **zoom**
--- a/test/test_all_urls.py
+++ b/test/test_all_urls.py
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ class TestAllURLsMatching(unittest.TestCase):
        assertPlaylist('PL63F0C78739B09958')
        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/AsapSCIENCE')
        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/embedded')
-        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/feed')  # Own channel's home page
        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUBABnxM4Ar9ten8Mdjj1j0Q')
        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECUl4u3cNGP61MdtwGTqZA0MreSaDybji8')
        assertTab('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwP_SiAcdui0KVebT0mU9Apz359a4ubsC')
--- a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
    logtostderr:       Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
    writedescription:  Write the video description to a .description file
    writeinfojson:     Write the video description to a .info.json file
+    clean_infojson:    Remove private fields from the infojson
    writecomments:     Extract video comments. This will not be written to disk
                       unless writeinfojson is also given
    writeannotations:  Write the video annotations to a .annotations.xml file
@@ -1171,6 +1172,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        else:
            raise Exception('Invalid result type: %s' % result_type)

+    def _ensure_dir_exists(self, path):
+        return make_dir(path, self.report_error)
+
    def __process_playlist(self, ie_result, download):
        # We process each entry in the playlist
        playlist = ie_result.get('title') or ie_result.get('id')
@@ -1187,28 +1191,24 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            }
            ie_copy.update(dict(ie_result))

-            def ensure_dir_exists(path):
-                return make_dir(path, self.report_error)
-
            if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
                infofn = self.prepare_filename(ie_copy, 'pl_infojson')
-                if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
+                if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
                    return
                if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
                    self.to_screen('[info] Playlist metadata is already present')
                else:
                    playlist_info = dict(ie_result)
                    # playlist_info['entries'] = list(playlist_info['entries'])  # Entries is a generator which shouldnot be resolved here
-                    del playlist_info['entries']
                    self.to_screen('[info] Writing playlist metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
                    try:
-                        write_json_file(self.filter_requested_info(playlist_info), infofn)
+                        write_json_file(self.filter_requested_info(playlist_info, self.params.get('clean_infojson', True)), infofn)
                    except (OSError, IOError):
                        self.report_error('Cannot write playlist metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)

            if self.params.get('writedescription', False):
                descfn = self.prepare_filename(ie_copy, 'pl_description')
-                if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
+                if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
                    return
                if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
                    self.to_screen('[info] Playlist description is already present')
@@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                        new_dict.update({
                            'width': the_only_video.get('width'),
                            'height': the_only_video.get('height'),
-                            'resolution': the_only_video.get('resolution'),
+                            'resolution': the_only_video.get('resolution') or self.format_resolution(the_only_video),
                            'fps': the_only_video.get('fps'),
                            'vcodec': the_only_video.get('vcodec'),
                            'vbr': the_only_video.get('vbr'),
@@ -1794,14 +1794,18 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        if 'display_id' not in info_dict and 'id' in info_dict:
            info_dict['display_id'] = info_dict['id']

-        if info_dict.get('upload_date') is None and info_dict.get('timestamp') is not None:
-            # Working around out-of-range timestamp values (e.g. negative ones on Windows,
-            # see http://bugs.python.org/issue1646728)
-            try:
-                upload_date = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(info_dict['timestamp'])
-                info_dict['upload_date'] = upload_date.strftime('%Y%m%d')
-            except (ValueError, OverflowError, OSError):
-                pass
+        for ts_key, date_key in (
+                ('timestamp', 'upload_date'),
+                ('release_timestamp', 'release_date'),
+        ):
+            if info_dict.get(date_key) is None and info_dict.get(ts_key) is not None:
+                # Working around out-of-range timestamp values (e.g. negative ones on Windows,
+                # see http://bugs.python.org/issue1646728)
+                try:
+                    upload_date = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(info_dict[ts_key])
+                    info_dict[date_key] = upload_date.strftime('%Y%m%d')
+                except (ValueError, OverflowError, OSError):
+                    pass

        # Auto generate title fields corresponding to the *_number fields when missing
        # in order to always have clean titles. This is very common for TV series.
@@ -2043,7 +2047,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        print_mandatory('format')
        if self.params.get('forcejson', False):
            self.post_extract(info_dict)
-            self.to_stdout(json.dumps(info_dict))
+            self.to_stdout(json.dumps(info_dict, default=repr))

    def process_info(self, info_dict):
        """Process a single resolved IE result."""
@@ -2071,6 +2075,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):

        info_dict = self.pre_process(info_dict)

+        # info_dict['_filename'] needs to be set for backward compatibility
        info_dict['_filename'] = full_filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict, warn=True)
        temp_filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict, 'temp')
        files_to_move = {}
@@ -2089,17 +2094,14 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        if full_filename is None:
            return

-        def ensure_dir_exists(path):
-            return make_dir(path, self.report_error)
-
-        if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(full_filename)):
+        if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(full_filename)):
            return
-        if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(temp_filename)):
+        if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(temp_filename)):
            return

        if self.params.get('writedescription', False):
            descfn = self.prepare_filename(info_dict, 'description')
-            if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
+            if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
                return
            if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(descfn)):
                self.to_screen('[info] Video description is already present')
@@ -2116,7 +2118,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):

        if self.params.get('writeannotations', False):
            annofn = self.prepare_filename(info_dict, 'annotation')
-            if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(annofn)):
+            if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(annofn)):
                return
            if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(annofn)):
                self.to_screen('[info] Video annotations are already present')
@@ -2139,7 +2141,10 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                fd.add_progress_hook(ph)
            if self.params.get('verbose'):
                self.to_screen('[debug] Invoking downloader on %r' % info.get('url'))
-            return fd.download(name, info, subtitle)
+            new_info = dict(info)
+            if new_info.get('http_headers') is None:
+                new_info['http_headers'] = self._calc_headers(new_info)
+            return fd.download(name, new_info, subtitle)

        subtitles_are_requested = any([self.params.get('writesubtitles', False),
                                       self.params.get('writeautomaticsub')])
@@ -2158,6 +2163,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                sub_filename_final = subtitles_filename(sub_fn, sub_lang, sub_format, info_dict.get('ext'))
                if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(sub_filename)):
                    self.to_screen('[info] Video subtitle %s.%s is already present' % (sub_lang, sub_format))
+                    sub_info['filepath'] = sub_filename
                    files_to_move[sub_filename] = sub_filename_final
                else:
                    self.to_screen('[info] Writing video subtitles to: ' + sub_filename)
@@ -2167,13 +2173,15 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                            # See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10268
                            with io.open(encodeFilename(sub_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8', newline='') as subfile:
                                subfile.write(sub_info['data'])
+                            sub_info['filepath'] = sub_filename
                            files_to_move[sub_filename] = sub_filename_final
                        except (OSError, IOError):
                            self.report_error('Cannot write subtitles file ' + sub_filename)
                            return
                    else:
                        try:
-                            dl(sub_filename, sub_info, subtitle=True)
+                            dl(sub_filename, sub_info.copy(), subtitle=True)
+                            sub_info['filepath'] = sub_filename
                            files_to_move[sub_filename] = sub_filename_final
                        except (ExtractorError, IOError, OSError, ValueError, compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
                            self.report_warning('Unable to download subtitle for "%s": %s' %
@@ -2204,14 +2212,14 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):

        if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
            infofn = self.prepare_filename(info_dict, 'infojson')
-            if not ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
+            if not self._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
                return
            if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(infofn)):
                self.to_screen('[info] Video metadata is already present')
            else:
                self.to_screen('[info] Writing video metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
                try:
-                    write_json_file(self.filter_requested_info(info_dict), infofn)
+                    write_json_file(self.filter_requested_info(info_dict, self.params.get('clean_infojson', True)), infofn)
                except (OSError, IOError):
                    self.report_error('Cannot write video metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)
                    return
@@ -2222,7 +2230,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        for thumb_ext in self._write_thumbnails(info_dict, thumb_fn_temp):
            thumb_filename_temp = replace_extension(thumb_fn_temp, thumb_ext, info_dict.get('ext'))
            thumb_filename = replace_extension(thumbfn, thumb_ext, info_dict.get('ext'))
-            files_to_move[thumb_filename_temp] = info_dict['__thumbnail_filename'] = thumb_filename
+            files_to_move[thumb_filename_temp] = thumb_filename

        # Write internet shortcut files
        url_link = webloc_link = desktop_link = False
@@ -2335,10 +2343,17 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):

                    requested_formats = info_dict['requested_formats']
                    old_ext = info_dict['ext']
-                    if self.params.get('merge_output_format') is None and not compatible_formats(requested_formats):
-                        info_dict['ext'] = 'mkv'
-                        self.report_warning(
-                            'Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.')
+                    if self.params.get('merge_output_format') is None:
+                        if not compatible_formats(requested_formats):
+                            info_dict['ext'] = 'mkv'
+                            self.report_warning(
+                                'Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.')
+                        if (info_dict['ext'] == 'webm'
+                                and self.params.get('writethumbnail', False)
+                                and info_dict.get('thumbnails')):
+                            info_dict['ext'] = 'mkv'
+                            self.report_warning(
+                                'webm doesn\'t support embedding a thumbnail, mkv will be used.')

                    def correct_ext(filename):
                        filename_real_ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1][1:]
@@ -2360,7 +2375,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                            fname = prepend_extension(
                                self.prepare_filename(new_info, 'temp'),
                                'f%s' % f['format_id'], new_info['ext'])
-                            if not ensure_dir_exists(fname):
+                            if not self._ensure_dir_exists(fname):
                                return
                            downloaded.append(fname)
                            partial_success, real_download = dl(fname, new_info)
@@ -2437,9 +2452,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                    else:
                        assert fixup_policy in ('ignore', 'never')

-                if (info_dict.get('protocol') == 'm3u8_native'
-                        or info_dict.get('protocol') == 'm3u8'
-                        and self.params.get('hls_prefer_native')):
+                if ('protocol' in info_dict
+                        and get_suitable_downloader(info_dict, self.params).__name__ == 'HlsFD'):
                    if fixup_policy == 'warn':
                        self.report_warning('%s: malformed AAC bitstream detected.' % (
                            info_dict['id']))
@@ -2455,13 +2469,13 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                        assert fixup_policy in ('ignore', 'never')

                try:
-                    self.post_process(dl_filename, info_dict, files_to_move)
+                    info_dict = self.post_process(dl_filename, info_dict, files_to_move)
                except PostProcessingError as err:
                    self.report_error('Postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
                    return
                try:
                    for ph in self._post_hooks:
-                        ph(full_filename)
+                        ph(info_dict['filepath'])
                except Exception as err:
                    self.report_error('post hooks: %s' % str(err))
                    return
@@ -2501,7 +2515,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            else:
                if self.params.get('dump_single_json', False):
                    self.post_extract(res)
-                    self.to_stdout(json.dumps(res))
+                    self.to_stdout(json.dumps(res, default=repr))

        return self._download_retcode

@@ -2523,21 +2537,31 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
        return self._download_retcode

    @staticmethod
-    def filter_requested_info(info_dict):
-        fields_to_remove = ('requested_formats', 'requested_subtitles')
-        return dict(
-            (k, v) for k, v in info_dict.items()
-            if (k[0] != '_' or k == '_type') and k not in fields_to_remove)
+    def filter_requested_info(info_dict, actually_filter=True):
+        if not actually_filter:
+            return info_dict
+        exceptions = {
+            'remove': ['requested_formats', 'requested_subtitles', 'filepath', 'entries'],
+            'keep': ['_type'],
+        }
+        keep_key = lambda k: k in exceptions['keep'] or not (k.startswith('_') or k in exceptions['remove'])
+        filter_fn = lambda obj: (
+            list(map(filter_fn, obj)) if isinstance(obj, (list, tuple))
+            else obj if not isinstance(obj, dict)
+            else dict((k, filter_fn(v)) for k, v in obj.items() if keep_key(k)))
+        return filter_fn(info_dict)

-    def run_pp(self, pp, infodict, files_to_move={}):
+    def run_pp(self, pp, infodict):
        files_to_delete = []
+        if '__files_to_move' not in infodict:
+            infodict['__files_to_move'] = {}
        files_to_delete, infodict = pp.run(infodict)
        if not files_to_delete:
-            return files_to_move, infodict
+            return infodict

        if self.params.get('keepvideo', False):
            for f in files_to_delete:
-                files_to_move.setdefault(f, '')
+                infodict['__files_to_move'].setdefault(f, '')
        else:
            for old_filename in set(files_to_delete):
                self.to_screen('Deleting original file %s (pass -k to keep)' % old_filename)
@@ -2545,9 +2569,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                    os.remove(encodeFilename(old_filename))
                except (IOError, OSError):
                    self.report_warning('Unable to remove downloaded original file')
-                if old_filename in files_to_move:
-                    del files_to_move[old_filename]
-        return files_to_move, infodict
+                if old_filename in infodict['__files_to_move']:
+                    del infodict['__files_to_move'][old_filename]
+        return infodict

    @staticmethod
    def post_extract(info_dict):
@@ -2570,20 +2594,22 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
    def pre_process(self, ie_info):
        info = dict(ie_info)
        for pp in self._pps['beforedl']:
-            info = self.run_pp(pp, info)[1]
+            info = self.run_pp(pp, info)
        return info

-    def post_process(self, filename, ie_info, files_to_move={}):
+    def post_process(self, filename, ie_info, files_to_move=None):
        """Run all the postprocessors on the given file."""
        info = dict(ie_info)
        info['filepath'] = filename
-        info['__files_to_move'] = {}
+        info['__files_to_move'] = files_to_move or {}

        for pp in ie_info.get('__postprocessors', []) + self._pps['normal']:
-            files_to_move, info = self.run_pp(pp, info, files_to_move)
-        info = self.run_pp(MoveFilesAfterDownloadPP(self, files_to_move), info)[1]
+            info = self.run_pp(pp, info)
+        info = self.run_pp(MoveFilesAfterDownloadPP(self), info)
+        del info['__files_to_move']
        for pp in self._pps['aftermove']:
-            info = self.run_pp(pp, info, {})[1]
+            info = self.run_pp(pp, info)
+        return info

    def _make_archive_id(self, info_dict):
        video_id = info_dict.get('id')
@@ -2632,12 +2658,11 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            return 'audio only'
        if format.get('resolution') is not None:
            return format['resolution']
-        if format.get('height') is not None:
-            if format.get('width') is not None:
-                res = '%sx%s' % (format['width'], format['height'])
-            else:
-                res = '%sp' % format['height']
-        elif format.get('width') is not None:
+        if format.get('width') and format.get('height'):
+            res = '%dx%d' % (format['width'], format['height'])
+        elif format.get('height'):
+            res = '%sp' % format['height']
+        elif format.get('width'):
            res = '%dx?' % format['width']
        else:
            res = default
@@ -2951,7 +2976,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
            thumb_ext = determine_ext(t['url'], 'jpg')
            suffix = '%s.' % t['id'] if multiple else ''
            thumb_display_id = '%s ' % t['id'] if multiple else ''
-            t['filename'] = thumb_filename = replace_extension(filename, suffix + thumb_ext, info_dict.get('ext'))
+            t['filepath'] = thumb_filename = replace_extension(filename, suffix + thumb_ext, info_dict.get('ext'))

            if not self.params.get('overwrites', True) and os.path.exists(encodeFilename(thumb_filename)):
                ret.append(suffix + thumb_ext)
--- a/yt_dlp/init.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/init.py
@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
    if opts.overwrites:
        # --yes-overwrites implies --no-continue
        opts.continue_dl = False
+    if opts.concurrent_fragment_downloads <= 0:
+        raise ValueError('Concurrent fragments must be positive')

    def parse_retries(retries, name=''):
        if retries in ('inf', 'infinite'):
@@ -277,9 +279,14 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):

    def report_conflict(arg1, arg2):
        write_string('WARNING: %s is ignored since %s was given\n' % (arg2, arg1), out=sys.stderr)
+
    if opts.remuxvideo and opts.recodevideo:
        report_conflict('--recode-video', '--remux-video')
        opts.remuxvideo = False
+    if opts.sponskrub_cut and opts.split_chapters and opts.sponskrub is not False:
+        report_conflict('--split-chapter', '--sponskrub-cut')
+        opts.sponskrub_cut = False
+
    if opts.allow_unplayable_formats:
        if opts.extractaudio:
            report_conflict('--allow-unplayable-formats', '--extract-audio')
@@ -369,11 +376,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
        })
        if not already_have_thumbnail:
            opts.writethumbnail = True
-    # XAttrMetadataPP should be run after post-processors that may change file
-    # contents
-    if opts.xattrs:
-        postprocessors.append({'key': 'XAttrMetadata'})
-    # This should be below all ffmpeg PP because it may cut parts out from the video
+    # This should be below most ffmpeg PP because it may cut parts out from the video
    # If opts.sponskrub is None, sponskrub is used, but it silently fails if the executable can't be found
    if opts.sponskrub is not False:
        postprocessors.append({
@@ -384,6 +387,11 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
            'force': opts.sponskrub_force,
            'ignoreerror': opts.sponskrub is None,
        })
+    if opts.split_chapters:
+        postprocessors.append({'key': 'FFmpegSplitChapters'})
+    # XAttrMetadataPP should be run after post-processors that may change file contents
+    if opts.xattrs:
+        postprocessors.append({'key': 'XAttrMetadata'})
    # ExecAfterDownload must be the last PP
    if opts.exec_cmd:
        postprocessors.append({
@@ -463,6 +471,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
        'extractor_retries': opts.extractor_retries,
        'skip_unavailable_fragments': opts.skip_unavailable_fragments,
        'keep_fragments': opts.keep_fragments,
+        'concurrent_fragment_downloads': opts.concurrent_fragment_downloads,
        'buffersize': opts.buffersize,
        'noresizebuffer': opts.noresizebuffer,
        'http_chunk_size': opts.http_chunk_size,
@@ -482,6 +491,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
        'writeannotations': opts.writeannotations,
        'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
        'allow_playlist_files': opts.allow_playlist_files,
+        'clean_infojson': opts.clean_infojson,
        'getcomments': opts.getcomments,
        'writethumbnail': opts.writethumbnail,
        'write_all_thumbnails': opts.write_all_thumbnails,
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/common.py
@@ -326,6 +326,12 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
        """Report it was impossible to resume download."""
        self.to_screen('[download] Unable to resume')

+    @staticmethod
+    def supports_manifest(manifest):
+        """ Whether the downloader can download the fragments from the manifest.
+        Redefine in subclasses if needed. """
+        pass
+
    def download(self, filename, info_dict, subtitle=False):
        """Download to a filename using the info from info_dict
        Return True on success and False otherwise
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/dash.py
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

+try:
+    import concurrent.futures
+    can_threaded_download = True
+except ImportError:
+    can_threaded_download = False
+
 from ..downloader import _get_real_downloader
 from .fragment import FragmentFD

 from ..compat import compat_urllib_error
 from ..utils import (
    DownloadError,
+    sanitize_open,
    urljoin,
 )


 class DashSegmentsFD(FragmentFD):
    """
-    Download segments in a DASH manifest
+    Download segments in a DASH manifest. External downloaders can take over
+    the fragment downloads by supporting the 'frag_urls' protocol
    """

    FD_NAME = 'dashsegments'
@@ -37,7 +45,7 @@ class DashSegmentsFD(FragmentFD):
        fragment_retries = self.params.get('fragment_retries', 0)
        skip_unavailable_fragments = self.params.get('skip_unavailable_fragments', True)

-        fragment_urls = []
+        fragments_to_download = []
        frag_index = 0
        for i, fragment in enumerate(fragments):
            frag_index += 1
@@ -48,49 +56,17 @@ class DashSegmentsFD(FragmentFD):
                assert fragment_base_url
                fragment_url = urljoin(fragment_base_url, fragment['path'])

-            if real_downloader:
-                fragment_urls.append(fragment_url)
-                continue
-
-            # In DASH, the first segment contains necessary headers to
-            # generate a valid MP4 file, so always abort for the first segment
-            fatal = i == 0 or not skip_unavailable_fragments
-            count = 0
-            while count <= fragment_retries:
-                try:
-                    success, frag_content = self._download_fragment(ctx, fragment_url, info_dict)
-                    if not success:
-                        return False
-                    self._append_fragment(ctx, frag_content)
-                    break
-                except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError as err:
-                    # YouTube may often return 404 HTTP error for a fragment causing the
-                    # whole download to fail. However if the same fragment is immediately
-                    # retried with the same request data this usually succeeds (1-2 attempts
-                    # is usually enough) thus allowing to download the whole file successfully.
-                    # To be future-proof we will retry all fragments that fail with any
-                    # HTTP error.
-                    count += 1
-                    if count <= fragment_retries:
-                        self.report_retry_fragment(err, frag_index, count, fragment_retries)
-                except DownloadError:
-                    # Don't retry fragment if error occurred during HTTP downloading
-                    # itself since it has own retry settings
-                    if not fatal:
-                        self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
-                        break
-                    raise
-
-            if count > fragment_retries:
-                if not fatal:
-                    self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
-                    continue
-                self.report_error('giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
-                return False
+            fragments_to_download.append({
+                'frag_index': frag_index,
+                'index': i,
+                'url': fragment_url,
+            })

        if real_downloader:
+            self.to_screen(
+                '[%s] Fragment downloads will be delegated to %s' % (self.FD_NAME, real_downloader.get_basename()))
            info_copy = info_dict.copy()
-            info_copy['url_list'] = fragment_urls
+            info_copy['fragments'] = fragments_to_download
            fd = real_downloader(self.ydl, self.params)
            # TODO: Make progress updates work without hooking twice
            # for ph in self._progress_hooks:
@@ -99,5 +75,104 @@ class DashSegmentsFD(FragmentFD):
            if not success:
                return False
        else:
+            def download_fragment(fragment):
+                i = fragment['index']
+                frag_index = fragment['frag_index']
+                fragment_url = fragment['url']
+
+                ctx['fragment_index'] = frag_index
+
+                # In DASH, the first segment contains necessary headers to
+                # generate a valid MP4 file, so always abort for the first segment
+                fatal = i == 0 or not skip_unavailable_fragments
+                count = 0
+                while count <= fragment_retries:
+                    try:
+                        success, frag_content = self._download_fragment(ctx, fragment_url, info_dict)
+                        if not success:
+                            return False, frag_index
+                        break
+                    except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError as err:
+                        # YouTube may often return 404 HTTP error for a fragment causing the
+                        # whole download to fail. However if the same fragment is immediately
+                        # retried with the same request data this usually succeeds (1-2 attempts
+                        # is usually enough) thus allowing to download the whole file successfully.
+                        # To be future-proof we will retry all fragments that fail with any
+                        # HTTP error.
+                        count += 1
+                        if count <= fragment_retries:
+                            self.report_retry_fragment(err, frag_index, count, fragment_retries)
+                    except DownloadError:
+                        # Don't retry fragment if error occurred during HTTP downloading
+                        # itself since it has own retry settings
+                        if not fatal:
+                            break
+                        raise
+
+                if count > fragment_retries:
+                    if not fatal:
+                        return False, frag_index
+                    self.report_error('Giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
+                    return False, frag_index
+
+                return frag_content, frag_index
+
+            def append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index):
+                if frag_content:
+                    fragment_filename = '%s-Frag%d' % (ctx['tmpfilename'], frag_index)
+                    try:
+                        file, frag_sanitized = sanitize_open(fragment_filename, 'rb')
+                        ctx['fragment_filename_sanitized'] = frag_sanitized
+                        file.close()
+                        self._append_fragment(ctx, frag_content)
+                        return True
+                    except FileNotFoundError:
+                        if skip_unavailable_fragments:
+                            self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
+                            return True
+                        else:
+                            self.report_error(
+                                'fragment %s not found, unable to continue' % frag_index)
+                            return False
+                else:
+                    if skip_unavailable_fragments:
+                        self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
+                        return True
+                    else:
+                        self.report_error(
+                            'fragment %s not found, unable to continue' % frag_index)
+                        return False
+
+            max_workers = self.params.get('concurrent_fragment_downloads', 1)
+            if can_threaded_download and max_workers > 1:
+                self.report_warning('The download speed shown is only of one thread. This is a known issue')
+                with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers) as pool:
+                    futures = [pool.submit(download_fragment, fragment) for fragment in fragments_to_download]
+                    # timeout must be 0 to return instantly
+                    done, not_done = concurrent.futures.wait(futures, timeout=0)
+                    try:
+                        while not_done:
+                            # Check every 1 second for KeyboardInterrupt
+                            freshly_done, not_done = concurrent.futures.wait(not_done, timeout=1)
+                            done |= freshly_done
+                    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+                        for future in not_done:
+                            future.cancel()
+                        # timeout must be none to cancel
+                        concurrent.futures.wait(not_done, timeout=None)
+                        raise KeyboardInterrupt
+                results = [future.result() for future in futures]
+
+                for frag_content, frag_index in results:
+                    result = append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index)
+                    if not result:
+                        return False
+            else:
+                for fragment in fragments_to_download:
+                    frag_content, frag_index = download_fragment(fragment)
+                    result = append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index)
+                    if not result:
+                        return False
+
            self._finish_frag_download(ctx)
        return True
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ from ..utils import (
    cli_bool_option,
    cli_configuration_args,
    encodeFilename,
-    error_to_compat_str,
    encodeArgument,
    handle_youtubedl_headers,
    check_executable,
@@ -108,7 +107,8 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader):
    def _configuration_args(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return cli_configuration_args(
            self.params.get('external_downloader_args'),
-            self.get_basename(), *args, **kwargs)
+            [self.get_basename(), 'default'],
+            *args, **kwargs)

    def _call_downloader(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
        """ Either overwrite this or implement _make_cmd """
@@ -116,24 +116,43 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader):

        self._debug_cmd(cmd)

-        p = subprocess.Popen(
-            cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-        _, stderr = process_communicate_or_kill(p)
-        if p.returncode != 0:
-            self.to_stderr(stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
+        if 'fragments' in info_dict:
+            fragment_retries = self.params.get('fragment_retries', 0)
+            skip_unavailable_fragments = self.params.get('skip_unavailable_fragments', True)
+
+            count = 0
+            while count <= fragment_retries:
+                p = subprocess.Popen(
+                    cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                _, stderr = process_communicate_or_kill(p)
+                if p.returncode == 0:
+                    break
+                # TODO: Decide whether to retry based on error code
+                # https://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html#exit-status
+                self.to_stderr(stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
+                count += 1
+                if count <= fragment_retries:
+                    self.to_screen(
+                        '[%s] Got error. Retrying fragments (attempt %d of %s)...'
+                        % (self.get_basename(), count, self.format_retries(fragment_retries)))
+            if count > fragment_retries:
+                if not skip_unavailable_fragments:
+                    self.report_error('Giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
+                    return -1

-        if 'url_list' in info_dict:
-            file_list = []
-            for [i, url] in enumerate(info_dict['url_list']):
-                tmpsegmentname = '%s_%s.frag' % (tmpfilename, i)
-                file_list.append(tmpsegmentname)
-            key_list = info_dict.get('key_list')
-            decrypt_info = None
            dest, _ = sanitize_open(tmpfilename, 'wb')
-            for i, file in enumerate(file_list):
-                src, _ = sanitize_open(file, 'rb')
-                if key_list:
-                    decrypt_info = next((x for x in key_list if x['INDEX'] == i), decrypt_info)
+            for frag_index, fragment in enumerate(info_dict['fragments']):
+                fragment_filename = '%s-Frag%d' % (tmpfilename, frag_index)
+                try:
+                    src, _ = sanitize_open(fragment_filename, 'rb')
+                except IOError:
+                    if skip_unavailable_fragments and frag_index > 1:
+                        self.to_screen('[%s] Skipping fragment %d ...' % (self.get_basename(), frag_index))
+                        continue
+                    self.report_error('Unable to open fragment %d' % frag_index)
+                    return -1
+                decrypt_info = fragment.get('decrypt_info')
+                if decrypt_info:
                    if decrypt_info['METHOD'] == 'AES-128':
                        iv = decrypt_info.get('IV')
                        decrypt_info['KEY'] = decrypt_info.get('KEY') or self.ydl.urlopen(
@@ -149,19 +168,16 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader):
                    fragment_data = src.read()
                    dest.write(fragment_data)
                src.close()
+                if not self.params.get('keep_fragments', False):
+                    os.remove(encodeFilename(fragment_filename))
            dest.close()
-            if not self.params.get('keep_fragments', False):
-                for file_path in file_list:
-                    try:
-                        os.remove(file_path)
-                    except OSError as ose:
-                        self.report_error("Unable to delete file %s; %s" % (file_path, error_to_compat_str(ose)))
-                try:
-                    file_path = '%s.frag.urls' % tmpfilename
-                    os.remove(file_path)
-                except OSError as ose:
-                    self.report_error("Unable to delete file %s; %s" % (file_path, error_to_compat_str(ose)))
-
+            os.remove(encodeFilename('%s.frag.urls' % tmpfilename))
+        else:
+            p = subprocess.Popen(
+                cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+            _, stderr = process_communicate_or_kill(p)
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                self.to_stderr(stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
        return p.returncode

    def _prepare_url(self, info_dict, url):
@@ -245,15 +261,22 @@ class Aria2cFD(ExternalFD):
    AVAILABLE_OPT = '-v'
    SUPPORTED_PROTOCOLS = ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'frag_urls')

+    @staticmethod
+    def supports_manifest(manifest):
+        UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES = [
+            r'#EXT-X-BYTERANGE',  # playlists composed of byte ranges of media files [1]
+            # 1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-17#section-4.3.2.2
+        ]
+        check_results = (not re.search(feature, manifest) for feature in UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES)
+        return all(check_results)
+
    def _make_cmd(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
-        cmd = [self.exe, '-c']
-        dn = os.path.dirname(tmpfilename)
-        if 'url_list' not in info_dict:
-            cmd += ['--out', os.path.basename(tmpfilename)]
-        verbose_level_args = ['--console-log-level=warn', '--summary-interval=0']
-        cmd += self._configuration_args(['--file-allocation=none', '-x16', '-j16', '-s16'] + verbose_level_args)
-        if dn:
-            cmd += ['--dir', dn]
+        cmd = [self.exe, '-c',
+               '--console-log-level=warn', '--summary-interval=0', '--download-result=hide',
+               '--file-allocation=none', '-x16', '-j16', '-s16']
+        if 'fragments' in info_dict:
+            cmd += ['--allow-overwrite=true', '--allow-piece-length-change=true']
+
        if info_dict.get('http_headers') is not None:
            for key, val in info_dict['http_headers'].items():
                cmd += ['--header', '%s: %s' % (key, val)]
@@ -261,19 +284,25 @@ class Aria2cFD(ExternalFD):
        cmd += self._option('--all-proxy', 'proxy')
        cmd += self._bool_option('--check-certificate', 'nocheckcertificate', 'false', 'true', '=')
        cmd += self._bool_option('--remote-time', 'updatetime', 'true', 'false', '=')
+        cmd += self._configuration_args()
+
+        dn = os.path.dirname(tmpfilename)
+        if dn:
+            cmd += ['--dir', dn]
+        if 'fragments' not in info_dict:
+            cmd += ['--out', os.path.basename(tmpfilename)]
        cmd += ['--auto-file-renaming=false']
-        if 'url_list' in info_dict:
-            cmd += verbose_level_args
-            cmd += ['--uri-selector', 'inorder', '--download-result=hide']
+
+        if 'fragments' in info_dict:
+            cmd += ['--file-allocation=none', '--uri-selector=inorder']
            url_list_file = '%s.frag.urls' % tmpfilename
            url_list = []
-            for [i, url] in enumerate(info_dict['url_list']):
-                tmpsegmentname = '%s_%s.frag' % (os.path.basename(tmpfilename), i)
-                url_list.append('%s\n\tout=%s' % (url, tmpsegmentname))
+            for frag_index, fragment in enumerate(info_dict['fragments']):
+                fragment_filename = '%s-Frag%d' % (os.path.basename(tmpfilename), frag_index)
+                url_list.append('%s\n\tout=%s' % (fragment['url'], fragment_filename))
            stream, _ = sanitize_open(url_list_file, 'wb')
            stream.write('\n'.join(url_list).encode('utf-8'))
            stream.close()
-
            cmd += ['-i', url_list_file]
        else:
            cmd += ['--', info_dict['url']]
@@ -282,8 +311,8 @@ class Aria2cFD(ExternalFD):

 class HttpieFD(ExternalFD):
    @classmethod
-    def available(cls):
-        return check_executable('http', ['--version'])
+    def available(cls, path=None):
+        return check_executable(path or 'http', ['--version'])

    def _make_cmd(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
        cmd = ['http', '--download', '--output', tmpfilename, info_dict['url']]
@@ -298,7 +327,7 @@ class FFmpegFD(ExternalFD):
    SUPPORTED_PROTOCOLS = ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'm3u8', 'rtsp', 'rtmp', 'mms')

    @classmethod
-    def available(cls):
+    def available(cls, path=None):  # path is ignored for ffmpeg
        return FFmpegPostProcessor().available

    def _call_downloader(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/hls.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/hls.py
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ try:
    can_decrypt_frag = True
 except ImportError:
    can_decrypt_frag = False
+try:
+    import concurrent.futures
+    can_threaded_download = True
+except ImportError:
+    can_threaded_download = False

 from ..downloader import _get_real_downloader
 from .fragment import FragmentFD
@@ -19,12 +24,17 @@ from ..compat import (
 )
 from ..utils import (
    parse_m3u8_attributes,
+    sanitize_open,
    update_url_query,
 )


 class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
-    """ A limited implementation that does not require ffmpeg """
+    """
+    Download segments in a m3u8 manifest. External downloaders can take over
+    the fragment downloads by supporting the 'frag_urls' protocol and
+    re-defining 'supports_manifest' function
+    """

    FD_NAME = 'hlsnative'

@@ -53,12 +63,15 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
            UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES += [
                r'#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=(?!NONE|AES-128)',  # encrypted streams [1]
            ]
-        check_results = [not re.search(feature, manifest) for feature in UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES]
-        is_aes128_enc = '#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128' in manifest
-        check_results.append(with_crypto or not is_aes128_enc)
-        check_results.append(not (is_aes128_enc and r'#EXT-X-BYTERANGE' in manifest))
-        check_results.append(not info_dict.get('is_live'))
-        return all(check_results)
+
+        def check_results():
+            yield not info_dict.get('is_live')
+            is_aes128_enc = '#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128' in manifest
+            yield with_crypto or not is_aes128_enc
+            yield not (is_aes128_enc and r'#EXT-X-BYTERANGE' in manifest)
+            for feature in UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES:
+                yield not re.search(feature, manifest)
+        return all(check_results())

    def real_download(self, filename, info_dict):
        man_url = info_dict['url']
@@ -70,20 +83,24 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):

        if not self.can_download(s, info_dict, self.params.get('allow_unplayable_formats')):
            if info_dict.get('extra_param_to_segment_url') or info_dict.get('_decryption_key_url'):
-                self.report_error('pycryptodome not found. Please install it.')
+                self.report_error('pycryptodome not found. Please install')
                return False
            if self.can_download(s, info_dict, with_crypto=True):
-                self.report_warning('pycryptodome is needed to download this file with hlsnative')
-            self.report_warning(
-                'hlsnative has detected features it does not support, '
-                'extraction will be delegated to ffmpeg')
+                self.report_warning('pycryptodome is needed to download this file natively')
            fd = FFmpegFD(self.ydl, self.params)
+            self.report_warning(
+                '%s detected unsupported features; extraction will be delegated to %s' % (self.FD_NAME, fd.get_basename()))
            # TODO: Make progress updates work without hooking twice
            # for ph in self._progress_hooks:
            #     fd.add_progress_hook(ph)
            return fd.real_download(filename, info_dict)

        real_downloader = _get_real_downloader(info_dict, 'frag_urls', self.params, None)
+        if real_downloader and not real_downloader.supports_manifest(s):
+            real_downloader = None
+        if real_downloader:
+            self.to_screen(
+                '[%s] Fragment downloads will be delegated to %s' % (self.FD_NAME, real_downloader.get_basename()))

        def is_ad_fragment_start(s):
            return (s.startswith('#ANVATO-SEGMENT-INFO') and 'type=ad' in s
@@ -93,7 +110,7 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
            return (s.startswith('#ANVATO-SEGMENT-INFO') and 'type=master' in s
                    or s.startswith('#UPLYNK-SEGMENT') and s.endswith(',segment'))

-        fragment_urls = []
+        fragments = []

        media_frags = 0
        ad_frags = 0
@@ -136,14 +153,12 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
        i = 0
        media_sequence = 0
        decrypt_info = {'METHOD': 'NONE'}
-        key_list = []
        byte_range = {}
        discontinuity_count = 0
        frag_index = 0
        ad_frag_next = False
        for line in s.splitlines():
            line = line.strip()
-            download_frag = False
            if line:
                if not line.startswith('#'):
                    if format_index and discontinuity_count != format_index:
@@ -160,17 +175,20 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                    if extra_query:
                        frag_url = update_url_query(frag_url, extra_query)

-                    if real_downloader:
-                        fragment_urls.append(frag_url)
-                        continue
-                    download_frag = True
+                    fragments.append({
+                        'frag_index': frag_index,
+                        'url': frag_url,
+                        'decrypt_info': decrypt_info,
+                        'byte_range': byte_range,
+                        'media_sequence': media_sequence,
+                    })

                elif line.startswith('#EXT-X-MAP'):
                    if format_index and discontinuity_count != format_index:
                        continue
                    if frag_index > 0:
                        self.report_error(
-                            'initialization fragment found after media fragments, unable to download')
+                            'Initialization fragment found after media fragments, unable to download')
                        return False
                    frag_index += 1
                    map_info = parse_m3u8_attributes(line[11:])
@@ -180,9 +198,14 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                        else compat_urlparse.urljoin(man_url, map_info.get('URI')))
                    if extra_query:
                        frag_url = update_url_query(frag_url, extra_query)
-                    if real_downloader:
-                        fragment_urls.append(frag_url)
-                        continue
+
+                    fragments.append({
+                        'frag_index': frag_index,
+                        'url': frag_url,
+                        'decrypt_info': decrypt_info,
+                        'byte_range': byte_range,
+                        'media_sequence': media_sequence
+                    })

                    if map_info.get('BYTERANGE'):
                        splitted_byte_range = map_info.get('BYTERANGE').split('@')
@@ -191,7 +214,6 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                            'start': sub_range_start,
                            'end': sub_range_start + int(splitted_byte_range[0]),
                        }
-                    download_frag = True

                elif line.startswith('#EXT-X-KEY'):
                    decrypt_url = decrypt_info.get('URI')
@@ -206,9 +228,6 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                            decrypt_info['URI'] = update_url_query(decrypt_info['URI'], extra_query)
                        if decrypt_url != decrypt_info['URI']:
                            decrypt_info['KEY'] = None
-                    key_data = decrypt_info.copy()
-                    key_data['INDEX'] = frag_index
-                    key_list.append(key_data)

                elif line.startswith('#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE'):
                    media_sequence = int(line[22:])
@@ -225,58 +244,16 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                    ad_frag_next = False
                elif line.startswith('#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY'):
                    discontinuity_count += 1
+                i += 1
+                media_sequence += 1

-                if download_frag:
-                    count = 0
-                    headers = info_dict.get('http_headers', {})
-                    if byte_range:
-                        headers['Range'] = 'bytes=%d-%d' % (byte_range['start'], byte_range['end'] - 1)
-                    while count <= fragment_retries:
-                        try:
-                            success, frag_content = self._download_fragment(
-                                ctx, frag_url, info_dict, headers)
-                            if not success:
-                                return False
-                            break
-                        except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError as err:
-                            # Unavailable (possibly temporary) fragments may be served.
-                            # First we try to retry then either skip or abort.
-                            # See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10165,
-                            # https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10448).
-                            count += 1
-                            if count <= fragment_retries:
-                                self.report_retry_fragment(err, frag_index, count, fragment_retries)
-                    if count > fragment_retries:
-                        if skip_unavailable_fragments:
-                            i += 1
-                            media_sequence += 1
-                            self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
-                            continue
-                        self.report_error(
-                            'giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
-                        return False
-
-                    if decrypt_info['METHOD'] == 'AES-128':
-                        iv = decrypt_info.get('IV') or compat_struct_pack('>8xq', media_sequence)
-                        decrypt_info['KEY'] = decrypt_info.get('KEY') or self.ydl.urlopen(
-                            self._prepare_url(info_dict, info_dict.get('_decryption_key_url') or decrypt_info['URI'])).read()
-                        # Don't decrypt the content in tests since the data is explicitly truncated and it's not to a valid block
-                        # size (see https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/27660). Tests only care that the correct data downloaded,
-                        # not what it decrypts to.
-                        if not test:
-                            frag_content = AES.new(
-                                decrypt_info['KEY'], AES.MODE_CBC, iv).decrypt(frag_content)
-                    self._append_fragment(ctx, frag_content)
-                    # We only download the first fragment during the test
-                    if test:
-                        break
-                    i += 1
-                    media_sequence += 1
+        # We only download the first fragment during the test
+        if test:
+            fragments = [fragments[0] if fragments else None]

        if real_downloader:
            info_copy = info_dict.copy()
-            info_copy['url_list'] = fragment_urls
-            info_copy['key_list'] = key_list
+            info_copy['fragments'] = fragments
            fd = real_downloader(self.ydl, self.params)
            # TODO: Make progress updates work without hooking twice
            # for ph in self._progress_hooks:
@@ -285,5 +262,107 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
            if not success:
                return False
        else:
+            def download_fragment(fragment):
+                frag_index = fragment['frag_index']
+                frag_url = fragment['url']
+                decrypt_info = fragment['decrypt_info']
+                byte_range = fragment['byte_range']
+                media_sequence = fragment['media_sequence']
+
+                ctx['fragment_index'] = frag_index
+
+                count = 0
+                headers = info_dict.get('http_headers', {})
+                if byte_range:
+                    headers['Range'] = 'bytes=%d-%d' % (byte_range['start'], byte_range['end'] - 1)
+                while count <= fragment_retries:
+                    try:
+                        success, frag_content = self._download_fragment(
+                            ctx, frag_url, info_dict, headers)
+                        if not success:
+                            return False, frag_index
+                        break
+                    except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError as err:
+                        # Unavailable (possibly temporary) fragments may be served.
+                        # First we try to retry then either skip or abort.
+                        # See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10165,
+                        # https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10448).
+                        count += 1
+                        if count <= fragment_retries:
+                            self.report_retry_fragment(err, frag_index, count, fragment_retries)
+                if count > fragment_retries:
+                    self.report_error('Giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
+                    return False, frag_index
+
+                if decrypt_info['METHOD'] == 'AES-128':
+                    iv = decrypt_info.get('IV') or compat_struct_pack('>8xq', media_sequence)
+                    decrypt_info['KEY'] = decrypt_info.get('KEY') or self.ydl.urlopen(
+                        self._prepare_url(info_dict, info_dict.get('_decryption_key_url') or decrypt_info['URI'])).read()
+                    # Don't decrypt the content in tests since the data is explicitly truncated and it's not to a valid block
+                    # size (see https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/27660). Tests only care that the correct data downloaded,
+                    # not what it decrypts to.
+                    if not test:
+                        frag_content = AES.new(
+                            decrypt_info['KEY'], AES.MODE_CBC, iv).decrypt(frag_content)
+
+                return frag_content, frag_index
+
+            def append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index):
+                if frag_content:
+                    fragment_filename = '%s-Frag%d' % (ctx['tmpfilename'], frag_index)
+                    try:
+                        file, frag_sanitized = sanitize_open(fragment_filename, 'rb')
+                        ctx['fragment_filename_sanitized'] = frag_sanitized
+                        file.close()
+                        self._append_fragment(ctx, frag_content)
+                        return True
+                    except FileNotFoundError:
+                        if skip_unavailable_fragments:
+                            self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
+                            return True
+                        else:
+                            self.report_error(
+                                'fragment %s not found, unable to continue' % frag_index)
+                            return False
+                else:
+                    if skip_unavailable_fragments:
+                        self.report_skip_fragment(frag_index)
+                        return True
+                    else:
+                        self.report_error(
+                            'fragment %s not found, unable to continue' % frag_index)
+                        return False
+
+            max_workers = self.params.get('concurrent_fragment_downloads', 1)
+            if can_threaded_download and max_workers > 1:
+                self.report_warning('The download speed shown is only of one thread. This is a known issue')
+                with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers) as pool:
+                    futures = [pool.submit(download_fragment, fragment) for fragment in fragments]
+                    # timeout must be 0 to return instantly
+                    done, not_done = concurrent.futures.wait(futures, timeout=0)
+                    try:
+                        while not_done:
+                            # Check every 1 second for KeyboardInterrupt
+                            freshly_done, not_done = concurrent.futures.wait(not_done, timeout=1)
+                            done |= freshly_done
+                    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+                        for future in not_done:
+                            future.cancel()
+                        # timeout must be none to cancel
+                        concurrent.futures.wait(not_done, timeout=None)
+                        raise KeyboardInterrupt
+                results = [future.result() for future in futures]
+
+                for frag_content, frag_index in results:
+                    result = append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index)
+                    if not result:
+                        return False
+            else:
+                for fragment in fragments:
+                    frag_content, frag_index = download_fragment(fragment)
+                    result = append_fragment(frag_content, frag_index)
+                    if not result:
+                        return False
+
            self._finish_frag_download(ctx)
        return True
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/rtmp.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/rtmp.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class RtmpFD(FileDownloader):

        # Check for rtmpdump first
        if not check_executable('rtmpdump', ['-h']):
-            self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run. Please install it.')
+            self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run. Please install')
            return False

        # Download using rtmpdump. rtmpdump returns exit code 2 when
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/rtsp.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/rtsp.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class RtspFD(FileDownloader):
            args = [
                'mpv', '-really-quiet', '--vo=null', '--stream-dump=' + tmpfilename, url]
        else:
-            self.report_error('MMS or RTSP download detected but neither "mplayer" nor "mpv" could be run. Please install any.')
+            self.report_error('MMS or RTSP download detected but neither "mplayer" nor "mpv" could be run. Please install one')
            return False

        self._debug_cmd(args)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/amcnetworks.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/amcnetworks.py
@@ -65,15 +65,35 @@ class AMCNetworksIE(ThePlatformIE):
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        site, display_id = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).groups()
        requestor_id = self._REQUESTOR_ID_MAP[site]
-        properties = self._download_json(
-            'https://content-delivery-gw.svc.ds.amcn.com/api/v2/content/amcn/%s/url/%s' % (requestor_id.lower(), display_id),
-            display_id)['data']['properties']
+        page_data = self._download_json(
+            'https://content-delivery-gw.svc.ds.amcn.com/api/v2/content/amcn/%s/url/%s'
+            % (requestor_id.lower(), display_id), display_id)['data']
+        properties = page_data.get('properties') or {}
        query = {
            'mbr': 'true',
            'manifest': 'm3u',
        }
-        tp_path = 'M_UwQC/media/' + properties['videoPid']
-        media_url = 'https://link.theplatform.com/s/' + tp_path
+
+        video_player_count = 0
+        try:
+            for v in page_data['children']:
+                if v.get('type') == 'video-player':
+                    releasePid = v['properties']['currentVideo']['meta']['releasePid']
+                    tp_path = 'M_UwQC/' + releasePid
+                    media_url = 'https://link.theplatform.com/s/' + tp_path
+                    video_player_count += 1
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        if video_player_count > 1:
+            self.report_warning(
+                'The JSON data has %d video players. Only one will be extracted' % video_player_count)
+
+        # Fall back to videoPid if releasePid not found.
+        # TODO: Fall back to videoPid if releasePid manifest uses DRM.
+        if not video_player_count:
+            tp_path = 'M_UwQC/media/' + properties['videoPid']
+            media_url = 'https://link.theplatform.com/s/' + tp_path
+
        theplatform_metadata = self._download_theplatform_metadata(tp_path, display_id)
        info = self._parse_theplatform_metadata(theplatform_metadata)
        video_id = theplatform_metadata['pid']
@@ -90,30 +110,41 @@ class AMCNetworksIE(ThePlatformIE):
        formats, subtitles = self._extract_theplatform_smil(
            media_url, video_id)
        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        thumbnails = []
+        thumbnail_urls = [properties.get('imageDesktop')]
+        if 'thumbnail' in info:
+            thumbnail_urls.append(info.pop('thumbnail'))
+        for thumbnail_url in thumbnail_urls:
+            if not thumbnail_url:
+                continue
+            mobj = re.search(r'(\d+)x(\d+)', thumbnail_url)
+            thumbnails.append({
+                'url': thumbnail_url,
+                'width': int(mobj.group(1)) if mobj else None,
+                'height': int(mobj.group(2)) if mobj else None,
+            })
+
        info.update({
+            'age_limit': parse_age_limit(rating),
+            'formats': formats,
            'id': video_id,
            'subtitles': subtitles,
-            'formats': formats,
-            'age_limit': parse_age_limit(parse_age_limit(rating)),
+            'thumbnails': thumbnails,
        })
        ns_keys = theplatform_metadata.get('$xmlns', {}).keys()
        if ns_keys:
            ns = list(ns_keys)[0]
-            series = theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$show')
-            season_number = int_or_none(
-                theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$season'))
-            episode = theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$episodeTitle')
+            episode = theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$episodeTitle') or None
            episode_number = int_or_none(
                theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$episode'))
-            if season_number:
-                title = 'Season %d - %s' % (season_number, title)
-            if series:
-                title = '%s - %s' % (series, title)
+            season_number = int_or_none(
+                theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$season'))
+            series = theplatform_metadata.get(ns + '$show') or None
            info.update({
-                'title': title,
-                'series': series,
-                'season_number': season_number,
                'episode': episode,
                'episode_number': episode_number,
+                'season_number': season_number,
+                'series': series,
            })
        return info
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/applepodcasts.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/applepodcasts.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class ApplePodcastsIE(InfoExtractor):
        ember_data = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
            r'id="shoebox-ember-data-store"[^>]*>\s*({.+?})\s*<',
            webpage, 'ember data'), episode_id)
+        ember_data = ember_data.get(episode_id) or ember_data
        episode = ember_data['data']['attributes']
        description = episode.get('description') or {}

--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/bandcamp.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/bandcamp.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ class BandcampIE(InfoExtractor):
            'uploader': 'Ben Prunty',
            'timestamp': 1396508491,
            'upload_date': '20140403',
+            'release_timestamp': 1396483200,
            'release_date': '20140403',
            'duration': 260.877,
            'track': 'Lanius (Battle)',
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ class BandcampIE(InfoExtractor):
            'uploader': 'Mastodon',
            'timestamp': 1322005399,
            'upload_date': '20111122',
+            'release_timestamp': 1076112000,
            'release_date': '20040207',
            'duration': 120.79,
            'track': 'Hail to Fire',
@@ -197,7 +199,7 @@ class BandcampIE(InfoExtractor):
            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
            'uploader': artist,
            'timestamp': timestamp,
-            'release_date': unified_strdate(tralbum.get('album_release_date')),
+            'release_timestamp': unified_timestamp(tralbum.get('album_release_date')),
            'duration': duration,
            'track': track,
            'track_number': track_number,
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/bilibili.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/bilibili.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor, SearchInfoExtractor
 from ..compat import (
+    compat_str,
    compat_parse_qs,
    compat_urlparse,
 )
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ from ..utils import (
    int_or_none,
    float_or_none,
    parse_iso8601,
+    try_get,
    smuggle_url,
    str_or_none,
    strip_jsonp,
@@ -113,6 +115,13 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):
        # new BV video id format
        'url': 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JE411F741',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        # Anthology
+        'url': 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1bK411W797',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'BV1bK411W797',
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 17,
    }]

    _APP_KEY = 'iVGUTjsxvpLeuDCf'
@@ -139,9 +148,19 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):
        page_id = mobj.group('page')
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)

+        # Bilibili anthologies are similar to playlists but all videos share the same video ID as the anthology itself.
+        # If the video has no page argument, check to see if it's an anthology
+        if page_id is None:
+            if not self._downloader.params.get('noplaylist'):
+                r = self._extract_anthology_entries(bv_id, video_id, webpage)
+                if r is not None:
+                    self.to_screen('Downloading anthology %s - add --no-playlist to just download video' % video_id)
+                    return r
+            self.to_screen('Downloading just video %s because of --no-playlist' % video_id)
+
        if 'anime/' not in url:
            cid = self._search_regex(
-                r'\bcid(?:["\']:|=)(\d+),["\']page(?:["\']:|=)' + str(page_id), webpage, 'cid',
+                r'\bcid(?:["\']:|=)(\d+),["\']page(?:["\']:|=)' + compat_str(page_id), webpage, 'cid',
                default=None
            ) or self._search_regex(
                r'\bcid(?:["\']:|=)(\d+)', webpage, 'cid',
@@ -170,6 +189,7 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):
            cid = js['result']['cid']

        headers = {
+            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Referer': url
        }
        headers.update(self.geo_verification_headers())
@@ -223,7 +243,18 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):
        title = self._html_search_regex(
            (r'<h1[^>]+\btitle=(["\'])(?P<title>(?:(?!\1).)+)\1',
             r'(?s)<h1[^>]*>(?P<title>.+?)</h1>'), webpage, 'title',
-            group='title') + ('_p' + str(page_id) if page_id is not None else '')
+            group='title')
+
+        # Get part title for anthologies
+        if page_id is not None:
+            # TODO: The json is already downloaded by _extract_anthology_entries. Don't redownload for each video
+            part_title = try_get(
+                self._download_json(
+                    "https://api.bilibili.com/x/player/pagelist?bvid=%s&jsonp=jsonp" % bv_id,
+                    video_id, note='Extracting videos in anthology'),
+                lambda x: x['data'][int(page_id) - 1]['part'])
+            title = part_title or title
+
        description = self._html_search_meta('description', webpage)
        timestamp = unified_timestamp(self._html_search_regex(
            r'<time[^>]+datetime="([^"]+)"', webpage, 'upload time',
@@ -233,7 +264,7 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):

        # TODO 'view_count' requires deobfuscating Javascript
        info = {
-            'id': str(video_id) if page_id is None else '%s_p%s' % (video_id, page_id),
+            'id': compat_str(video_id) if page_id is None else '%s_p%s' % (video_id, page_id),
            'cid': cid,
            'title': title,
            'description': description,
@@ -299,7 +330,7 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):

            global_info = {
                '_type': 'multi_video',
-                'id': video_id,
+                'id': compat_str(video_id),
                'bv_id': bv_id,
                'title': title,
                'description': description,
@@ -311,6 +342,20 @@ class BiliBiliIE(InfoExtractor):

            return global_info

+    def _extract_anthology_entries(self, bv_id, video_id, webpage):
+        title = self._html_search_regex(
+            (r'<h1[^>]+\btitle=(["\'])(?P<title>(?:(?!\1).)+)\1',
+             r'(?s)<h1[^>]*>(?P<title>.+?)</h1>'), webpage, 'title',
+            group='title')
+        json_data = self._download_json(
+            "https://api.bilibili.com/x/player/pagelist?bvid=%s&jsonp=jsonp" % bv_id,
+            video_id, note='Extracting videos in anthology')
+
+        if len(json_data['data']) > 1:
+            return self.playlist_from_matches(
+                json_data['data'], bv_id, title, ie=BiliBiliIE.ie_key(),
+                getter=lambda entry: 'https://www.bilibili.com/video/%s?p=%d' % (bv_id, entry['page']))
+
    def _get_video_id_set(self, id, is_bv):
        query = {'bvid': id} if is_bv else {'aid': id}
        response = self._download_json(
@@ -505,7 +550,7 @@ class BiliBiliSearchIE(SearchInfoExtractor):

            videos = data['result']
            for video in videos:
-                e = self.url_result(video['arcurl'], 'BiliBili', str(video['aid']))
+                e = self.url_result(video['arcurl'], 'BiliBili', compat_str(video['aid']))
                entries.append(e)

            if(len(entries) >= n or len(videos) >= BiliBiliSearchIE.MAX_NUMBER_OF_RESULTS):
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/cbs.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/cbs.py
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ class CBSBaseIE(ThePlatformFeedIE):


 class CBSIE(CBSBaseIE):
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:cbs:|https?://(?:www\.)?(?:cbs\.com/shows/[^/]+/video|colbertlateshow\.com/(?:video|podcasts))/)(?P<id>[\w-]+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:cbs:|https?://(?:www\.)?(?:(?:cbs|paramountplus)\.com/shows/[^/]+/video|colbertlateshow\.com/(?:video|podcasts))/)(?P<id>[\w-]+)'

    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'http://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/',
+        'url': 'https://www.cbs.com/shows/garth-brooks/video/_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_/connect-chat-feat-garth-brooks/',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '_u7W953k6la293J7EPTd9oHkSPs6Xn6_',
            'ext': 'mp4',
@@ -52,16 +52,19 @@ class CBSIE(CBSBaseIE):
    }, {
        'url': 'http://www.colbertlateshow.com/podcasts/dYSwjqPs_X1tvbV_P2FcPWRa_qT6akTC/in-the-bad-room-with-stephen/',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/all-rise/video/QmR1WhNkh1a_IrdHZrbcRklm176X_rVc/all-rise-space/',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]

    def _extract_video_info(self, content_id, site='cbs', mpx_acc=2198311517):
        items_data = self._download_xml(
-            'http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/videoPlayerService.php',
+            'https://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/videoPlayerService.php',
            content_id, query={'partner': site, 'contentId': content_id})
        video_data = xpath_element(items_data, './/item')
        title = xpath_text(video_data, 'videoTitle', 'title') or xpath_text(video_data, 'videotitle', 'title')
        tp_path = 'dJ5BDC/media/guid/%d/%s' % (mpx_acc, content_id)
-        tp_release_url = 'http://link.theplatform.com/s/' + tp_path
+        tp_release_url = 'https://link.theplatform.com/s/' + tp_path

        asset_types = []
        subtitles = {}
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -231,8 +231,9 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
    uploader:       Full name of the video uploader.
    license:        License name the video is licensed under.
    creator:        The creator of the video.
+    release_timestamp: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released.
    release_date:   The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released.
-    timestamp:      UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available.
+    timestamp:      UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was uploaded
    upload_date:    Video upload date (YYYYMMDD).
                    If not explicitly set, calculated from timestamp.
    uploader_id:    Nickname or id of the video uploader.
@@ -251,8 +252,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                        * "data": The subtitles file contents
                        * "url": A URL pointing to the subtitles file
                    "ext" will be calculated from URL if missing
-    automatic_captions: Like 'subtitles', used by the YoutubeIE for
-                    automatically generated captions
+    automatic_captions: Like 'subtitles'; contains automatically generated
+                    captions instead of normal subtitles
    duration:       Length of the video in seconds, as an integer or float.
    view_count:     How many users have watched the video on the platform.
    like_count:     Number of positive ratings of the video
@@ -264,6 +265,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                    properties (all but one of text or html optional):
                        * "author" - human-readable name of the comment author
                        * "author_id" - user ID of the comment author
+                        * "author_thumbnail" - The thumbnail of the comment author
                        * "id" - Comment ID
                        * "html" - Comment as HTML
                        * "text" - Plain text of the comment
@@ -271,6 +273,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                        * "parent" - ID of the comment this one is replying to.
                                     Set to "root" to indicate that this is a
                                     comment to the original video.
+                        * "like_count" - Number of positive ratings of the comment
+                        * "dislike_count" - Number of negative ratings of the comment
+                        * "is_favorited" - Whether the comment is marked as
+                                           favorite by the video uploader
+                        * "author_is_uploader" - Whether the comment is made by
+                                                 the video uploader
    age_limit:      Age restriction for the video, as an integer (years)
    webpage_url:    The URL to the video webpage, if given to yt-dlp it
                    should allow to get the same result again. (It will be set
@@ -293,7 +301,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
    playable_in_embed: Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded
                    players on other sites. Can be True (=always allowed),
                    False (=never allowed), None (=unknown), or a string
-                    specifying the criteria for embedability (Eg: 'whitelist').
+                    specifying the criteria for embedability (Eg: 'whitelist')
+    availability:   Under what condition the video is available. One of
+                    'private', 'premium_only', 'subscriber_only', 'needs_auth',
+                    'unlisted' or 'public'. Use 'InfoExtractor._availability'
+                    to set it
    __post_extractor: A function to be called just before the metadata is
                    written to either disk, logger or console. The function
                    must return a dict which will be added to the info_dict.
@@ -1409,8 +1421,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
            'ie_pref': {'priority': True, 'type': 'extractor'},
            'hasvid': {'priority': True, 'field': 'vcodec', 'type': 'boolean', 'not_in_list': ('none',)},
            'hasaud': {'field': 'acodec', 'type': 'boolean', 'not_in_list': ('none',)},
-            'lang': {'priority': True, 'convert': 'ignore', 'type': 'extractor', 'field': 'language_preference'},
-            'quality': {'convert': 'float_none', 'type': 'extractor'},
+            'lang': {'priority': True, 'convert': 'ignore', 'field': 'language_preference'},
+            'quality': {'convert': 'float_none'},
            'filesize': {'convert': 'bytes'},
            'fs_approx': {'convert': 'bytes', 'field': 'filesize_approx'},
            'id': {'convert': 'string', 'field': 'format_id'},
@@ -1421,7 +1433,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
            'vbr': {'convert': 'float_none'},
            'abr': {'convert': 'float_none'},
            'asr': {'convert': 'float_none'},
-            'source': {'convert': 'ignore', 'type': 'extractor', 'field': 'source_preference'},
+            'source': {'convert': 'ignore', 'field': 'source_preference'},

            'codec': {'type': 'combined', 'field': ('vcodec', 'acodec')},
            'br': {'type': 'combined', 'field': ('tbr', 'vbr', 'abr'), 'same_limit': True},
@@ -1849,8 +1861,9 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):

    def _extract_m3u8_formats(self, m3u8_url, video_id, ext=None,
                              entry_protocol='m3u8', preference=None, quality=None,
-                              m3u8_id=None, live=False, note=None, errnote=None,
-                              fatal=True, data=None, headers={}, query={}):
+                              m3u8_id=None, note=None, errnote=None,
+                              fatal=True, live=False, data=None, headers={},
+                              query={}):
        res = self._download_webpage_handle(
            m3u8_url, video_id,
            note=note or 'Downloading m3u8 information',
@@ -2050,11 +2063,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                playlist_formats = _extract_m3u8_playlist_formats(manifest_url, video_id=video_id,
                                                                  fatal=fatal, data=data, headers=headers)

-                for format in playlist_formats:
+                for frmt in playlist_formats:
                    format_id = []
                    if m3u8_id:
                        format_id.append(m3u8_id)
-                    format_index = format.get('index')
+                    format_index = frmt.get('index')
                    stream_name = build_stream_name()
                    # Bandwidth of live streams may differ over time thus making
                    # format_id unpredictable. So it's better to keep provided
@@ -2109,6 +2122,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                            # TODO: update acodec for audio only formats with
                            # the same GROUP-ID
                            f['acodec'] = 'none'
+                    if not f.get('ext'):
+                        f['ext'] = 'm4a' if f.get('vcodec') == 'none' else 'mp4'
                    formats.append(f)

                    # for DailyMotion
@@ -3321,6 +3336,20 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
    def _generic_title(self, url):
        return compat_urllib_parse_unquote(os.path.splitext(url_basename(url))[0])

+    @staticmethod
+    def _availability(is_private, needs_premium, needs_subscription, needs_auth, is_unlisted):
+        all_known = all(map(
+            lambda x: x is not None,
+            (is_private, needs_premium, needs_subscription, needs_auth, is_unlisted)))
+        return (
+            'private' if is_private
+            else 'premium_only' if needs_premium
+            else 'subscriber_only' if needs_subscription
+            else 'needs_auth' if needs_auth
+            else 'unlisted' if is_unlisted
+            else 'public' if all_known
+            else None)
+

 class SearchInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
    """
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -450,10 +450,7 @@ from .gamestar import GameStarIE
 from .gaskrank import GaskrankIE
 from .gazeta import GazetaIE
 from .gdcvault import GDCVaultIE
-from .gedi import (
-    GediIE,
-    GediEmbedsIE,
-)
+from .gedidigital import GediDigitalIE
 from .generic import GenericIE
 from .gfycat import GfycatIE
 from .giantbomb import GiantBombIE
@@ -711,7 +708,10 @@ from .mixcloud import (
    MixcloudUserIE,
    MixcloudPlaylistIE,
 )
-from .mlb import MLBIE
+from .mlb import (
+    MLBIE,
+    MLBVideoIE,
+)
 from .mnet import MnetIE
 from .moevideo import MoeVideoIE
 from .mofosex import (
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ from .mtv import (
    MTVServicesEmbeddedIE,
    MTVDEIE,
    MTVJapanIE,
+    MTVItaliaIE,
+    MTVItaliaProgrammaIE,
 )
 from .muenchentv import MuenchenTVIE
 from .mwave import MwaveIE, MwaveMeetGreetIE
@@ -823,7 +825,7 @@ from .nick import (
    NickNightIE,
    NickRuIE,
 )
-from .niconico import NiconicoIE, NiconicoPlaylistIE
+from .niconico import NiconicoIE, NiconicoPlaylistIE, NiconicoUserIE
 from .ninecninemedia import NineCNineMediaIE
 from .ninegag import NineGagIE
 from .ninenow import NineNowIE
@@ -954,6 +956,7 @@ from .plays import PlaysTVIE
 from .playtvak import PlaytvakIE
 from .playvid import PlayvidIE
 from .playwire import PlaywireIE
+from .plutotv import PlutoTVIE
 from .pluralsight import (
    PluralsightIE,
    PluralsightCourseIE,
@@ -1179,7 +1182,10 @@ from .spike import (
    BellatorIE,
    ParamountNetworkIE,
 )
-from .stitcher import StitcherIE
+from .stitcher import (
+    StitcherIE,
+    StitcherShowIE,
+)
 from .sport5 import Sport5IE
 from .sportbox import SportBoxIE
 from .sportdeutschland import SportDeutschlandIE
@@ -1560,6 +1566,7 @@ from .weibo import (
    WeiboMobileIE
 )
 from .weiqitv import WeiqiTVIE
+from .wimtv import WimTVIE
 from .wistia import (
    WistiaIE,
    WistiaPlaylistIE,
@@ -1669,5 +1676,6 @@ from .zdf import ZDFIE, ZDFChannelIE
 from .zhihu import ZhihuIE
 from .zingmp3 import ZingMp3IE
 from .zee5 import Zee5IE
+from .zee5 import Zee5SeriesIE
 from .zoom import ZoomIE
 from .zype import ZypeIE
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/fujitv.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/fujitv.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class FujiTVFODPlus7IE(InfoExtractor):
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-            self._BASE_URL + 'abr/pc_html5/%s.m3u8' % video_id, video_id)
+            self._BASE_URL + 'abr/pc_html5/%s.m3u8' % video_id, video_id, 'mp4')
        for f in formats:
            wh = self._BITRATE_MAP.get(f.get('tbr'))
            if wh:
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/gedi.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/gedi.py
@@ -1,266 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf-8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-import re
-
-from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..compat import compat_str
-from ..utils import (
-    base_url,
-    url_basename,
-    urljoin,
-)
-
-
-class GediBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
-    @staticmethod
-    def _clean_audio_fmts(formats):
-        unique_formats = []
-        for f in formats:
-            if 'acodec' in f:
-                unique_formats.append(f)
-        formats[:] = unique_formats
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        video_id = self._match_id(url)
-
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        player_data = re.findall(
-            r'PlayerFactory\.setParam\(\'(?P<type>.+?)\',\s*\'(?P<name>.+?)\',\s*\'(?P<val>.+?)\'\);',
-            webpage)
-
-        formats = []
-        audio_fmts = []
-        hls_fmts = []
-        http_fmts = []
-        title = ''
-        thumb = ''
-
-        fmt_reg = r'(?P<t>video|audio)-(?P<p>rrtv|hls)-(?P<h>[\w\d]+)(?:-(?P<br>[\w\d]+))?$'
-        br_reg = r'video-rrtv-(?P<br>\d+)-'
-
-        for t, n, v in player_data:
-            if t == 'format':
-                m = re.match(fmt_reg, n)
-                if m:
-                    # audio formats
-                    if m.group('t') == 'audio':
-                        if m.group('p') == 'hls':
-                            audio_fmts.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-                                v, video_id, 'm4a', m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
-                        elif m.group('p') == 'rrtv':
-                            audio_fmts.append({
-                                'format_id': 'mp3',
-                                'url': v,
-                                'tbr': 128,
-                                'ext': 'mp3',
-                                'vcodec': 'none',
-                                'acodec': 'mp3',
-                            })
-
-                    # video formats
-                    elif m.group('t') == 'video':
-                        # hls manifest video
-                        if m.group('p') == 'hls':
-                            hls_fmts.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-                                v, video_id, 'mp4', m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
-                        # direct mp4 video
-                        elif m.group('p') == 'rrtv':
-                            if not m.group('br'):
-                                mm = re.search(br_reg, v)
-                            http_fmts.append({
-                                'format_id': 'https-' + m.group('h'),
-                                'protocol': 'https',
-                                'url': v,
-                                'tbr': int(m.group('br')) if m.group('br') else
-                                (int(mm.group('br')) if mm.group('br') else 0),
-                                'height': int(m.group('h'))
-                            })
-
-            elif t == 'param':
-                if n == 'videotitle':
-                    title = v
-                if n == 'image_full_play':
-                    thumb = v
-
-        title = self._og_search_title(webpage) if title == '' else title
-
-        # clean weird char
-        title = compat_str(title).encode('utf8', 'replace').replace(b'\xc3\x82', b'').decode('utf8', 'replace')
-
-        if audio_fmts:
-            self._clean_audio_fmts(audio_fmts)
-            self._sort_formats(audio_fmts)
-        if hls_fmts:
-            self._sort_formats(hls_fmts)
-        if http_fmts:
-            self._sort_formats(http_fmts)
-
-        formats.extend(audio_fmts)
-        formats.extend(hls_fmts)
-        formats.extend(http_fmts)
-
-        return {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'description': self._html_search_meta('twitter:description', webpage),
-            'thumbnail': thumb,
-            'formats': formats,
-        }
-
-
-class GediIE(GediBaseIE):
-    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://video\.
-                    (?:
-                        (?:espresso\.)?repubblica
-                        |lastampa
-                        |huffingtonpost
-                        |ilsecoloxix
-                        |iltirreno
-                        |messaggeroveneto
-                        |ilpiccolo
-                        |gazzettadimantova
-                        |mattinopadova
-                        |laprovinciapavese
-                        |tribunatreviso
-                        |nuovavenezia
-                        |gazzettadimodena
-                        |lanuovaferrara
-                        |corrierealpi
-                        |lasentinella
-                    )
-                    (?:\.gelocal)?\.it/(?!embed/).+?/(?P<id>[\d/]+)(?:\?|\&|$)'''
-    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'https://video.lastampa.it/politica/il-paradosso-delle-regionali-la-lega-vince-ma-sembra-aver-perso/121559/121683',
-        'md5': '84658d7fb9e55a6e57ecc77b73137494',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '121559/121683',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Il paradosso delle Regionali: ecco perché la Lega vince ma sembra aver perso',
-            'description': 'md5:de7f4d6eaaaf36c153b599b10f8ce7ca',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://video.repubblica.it/motori/record-della-pista-a-spa-francorchamps-la-pagani-huayra-roadster-bc-stupisce/367415/367963',
-        'md5': 'e763b94b7920799a0e0e23ffefa2d157',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '367415/367963',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Record della pista a Spa Francorchamps, la Pagani Huayra Roadster BC stupisce',
-            'description': 'md5:5deb503cefe734a3eb3f07ed74303920',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://video.ilsecoloxix.it/sport/cassani-e-i-brividi-azzurri-ai-mondiali-di-imola-qui-mi-sono-innamorato-del-ciclismo-da-ragazzino-incredibile-tornarci-da-ct/66184/66267',
-        'md5': 'e48108e97b1af137d22a8469f2019057',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '66184/66267',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Cassani e i brividi azzurri ai Mondiali di Imola: \\"Qui mi sono innamorato del ciclismo da ragazzino, incredibile tornarci da ct\\"',
-            'description': 'md5:fc9c50894f70a2469bb9b54d3d0a3d3b',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://video.iltirreno.gelocal.it/sport/dentro-la-notizia-ferrari-cosa-succede-a-maranello/141059/142723',
-        'md5': 'a6e39f3bdc1842bbd92abbbbef230817',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '141059/142723',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Dentro la notizia - Ferrari, cosa succede a Maranello',
-            'description': 'md5:9907d65b53765681fa3a0b3122617c1f',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }]
-
-
-class GediEmbedsIE(GediBaseIE):
-    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://video\.
-                    (?:
-                        (?:espresso\.)?repubblica
-                        |lastampa
-                        |huffingtonpost
-                        |ilsecoloxix
-                        |iltirreno
-                        |messaggeroveneto
-                        |ilpiccolo
-                        |gazzettadimantova
-                        |mattinopadova
-                        |laprovinciapavese
-                        |tribunatreviso
-                        |nuovavenezia
-                        |gazzettadimodena
-                        |lanuovaferrara
-                        |corrierealpi
-                        |lasentinella
-                    )
-                    (?:\.gelocal)?\.it/embed/.+?/(?P<id>[\d/]+)(?:\?|\&|$)'''
-    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'https://video.huffingtonpost.it/embed/politica/cotticelli-non-so-cosa-mi-sia-successo-sto-cercando-di-capire-se-ho-avuto-un-malore/29312/29276?responsive=true&el=video971040871621586700',
-        'md5': 'f4ac23cadfea7fef89bea536583fa7ed',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '29312/29276',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Cotticelli: \\"Non so cosa mi sia successo. Sto cercando di capire se ho avuto un malore\\"',
-            'description': 'md5:d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }, {
-        'url': 'https://video.espresso.repubblica.it/embed/tutti-i-video/01-ted-villa/14772/14870&width=640&height=360',
-        'md5': '0391c2c83c6506581003aaf0255889c0',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '14772/14870',
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Festival EMERGENCY, Villa: «La buona informazione aiuta la salute» (14772-14870)',
-            'description': 'md5:2bce954d278248f3c950be355b7c2226',
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-social-play\.jpg$',
-        },
-    }]
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _sanitize_urls(urls):
-        # add protocol if missing
-        for i, e in enumerate(urls):
-            if e.startswith('//'):
-                urls[i] = 'https:%s' % e
-        # clean iframes urls
-        for i, e in enumerate(urls):
-            urls[i] = urljoin(base_url(e), url_basename(e))
-        return urls
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _extract_urls(webpage):
-        entries = [
-            mobj.group('url')
-            for mobj in re.finditer(r'''(?x)
-            (?:
-                data-frame-src=|
-                <iframe[^\n]+src=
-            )
-            (["'])
-                (?P<url>https?://video\.
-                    (?:
-                        (?:espresso\.)?repubblica
-                        |lastampa
-                        |huffingtonpost
-                        |ilsecoloxix
-                        |iltirreno
-                        |messaggeroveneto
-                        |ilpiccolo
-                        |gazzettadimantova
-                        |mattinopadova
-                        |laprovinciapavese
-                        |tribunatreviso
-                        |nuovavenezia
-                        |gazzettadimodena
-                        |lanuovaferrara
-                        |corrierealpi
-                        |lasentinella
-                    )
-                    (?:\.gelocal)?\.it/embed/.+?)
-            \1''', webpage)]
-        return GediEmbedsIE._sanitize_urls(entries)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _extract_url(webpage):
-        urls = GediEmbedsIE._extract_urls(webpage)
-        return urls[0] if urls else None
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/gedidigital.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/gedidigital.py
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    base_url,
+    determine_ext,
+    int_or_none,
+    url_basename,
+    urljoin,
+)
+
+
+class GediDigitalIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)(?P<url>(?:https?:)//video\.
+        (?:
+            (?:
+                (?:espresso\.)?repubblica
+                |lastampa
+                |ilsecoloxix
+                |huffingtonpost
+            )|
+            (?:
+                iltirreno
+                |messaggeroveneto
+                |ilpiccolo
+                |gazzettadimantova
+                |mattinopadova
+                |laprovinciapavese
+                |tribunatreviso
+                |nuovavenezia
+                |gazzettadimodena
+                |lanuovaferrara
+                |corrierealpi
+                |lasentinella
+            )\.gelocal
+        )\.it(?:/[^/]+){2,4}/(?P<id>\d+))(?:$|[?&].*)'''
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://video.lastampa.it/politica/il-paradosso-delle-regionali-la-lega-vince-ma-sembra-aver-perso/121559/121683',
+        'md5': '84658d7fb9e55a6e57ecc77b73137494',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '121683',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Il paradosso delle Regionali: ecco perché la Lega vince ma sembra aver perso',
+            'description': 'md5:de7f4d6eaaaf36c153b599b10f8ce7ca',
+            'thumbnail': r're:^https://www\.repstatic\.it/video/photo/.+?-thumb-full-.+?\.jpg$',
+            'duration': 125,
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.huffingtonpost.it/embed/politica/cotticelli-non-so-cosa-mi-sia-successo-sto-cercando-di-capire-se-ho-avuto-un-malore/29312/29276?responsive=true&el=video971040871621586700',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.espresso.repubblica.it/embed/tutti-i-video/01-ted-villa/14772/14870&width=640&height=360',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.repubblica.it/motori/record-della-pista-a-spa-francorchamps-la-pagani-huayra-roadster-bc-stupisce/367415/367963',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.ilsecoloxix.it/sport/cassani-e-i-brividi-azzurri-ai-mondiali-di-imola-qui-mi-sono-innamorato-del-ciclismo-da-ragazzino-incredibile-tornarci-da-ct/66184/66267',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.iltirreno.gelocal.it/sport/dentro-la-notizia-ferrari-cosa-succede-a-maranello/141059/142723',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/locale/maria-giovanna-elmi-covid-vaccino/138155/139268',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/dossier/big-john/dinosauro-big-john-al-via-le-visite-guidate-a-trieste/135226/135751',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/locale/dal-ponte-visconteo-di-valeggio-l-and-8217sos-dei-ristoratori-aprire-anche-a-cena/137310/137818',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.mattinopadova.gelocal.it/dossier/coronavirus-in-veneto/covid-a-vo-un-anno-dopo-un-cuore-tricolore-per-non-dimenticare/138402/138964',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.laprovinciapavese.gelocal.it/locale/mede-zona-rossa-via-alle-vaccinazioni-per-gli-over-80/137545/138120',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/dossier/coronavirus-in-veneto/ecco-le-prima-vaccinazioni-di-massa-nella-marca/134485/135024',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/locale/camion-troppo-alto-per-il-ponte-ferroviario-perde-il-carico/135734/136266',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/locale/modena-scoperta-la-proteina-che-predice-il-livello-di-gravita-del-covid/139109/139796',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.lanuovaferrara.gelocal.it/locale/due-bombole-di-gpl-aperte-e-abbandonate-i-vigili-bruciano-il-gas/134391/134957',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.corrierealpi.gelocal.it/dossier/cortina-2021-i-mondiali-di-sci-alpino/mondiali-di-sci-il-timelapse-sulla-splendida-olympia/133760/134331',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.lasentinella.gelocal.it/locale/vestigne-centra-un-auto-e-si-ribalta/138931/139466',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.espresso.repubblica.it/tutti-i-video/01-ted-villa/14772',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _sanitize_urls(urls):
+        # add protocol if missing
+        for i, e in enumerate(urls):
+            if e.startswith('//'):
+                urls[i] = 'https:%s' % e
+        # clean iframes urls
+        for i, e in enumerate(urls):
+            urls[i] = urljoin(base_url(e), url_basename(e))
+        return urls
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_urls(webpage):
+        entries = [
+            mobj.group('eurl')
+            for mobj in re.finditer(r'''(?x)
+            (?:
+                data-frame-src=|
+                <iframe[^\n]+src=
+            )
+            (["'])(?P<eurl>%s)\1''' % GediDigitalIE._VALID_URL, webpage)]
+        return GediDigitalIE._sanitize_urls(entries)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_url(webpage):
+        urls = GediDigitalIE._extract_urls(webpage)
+        return urls[0] if urls else None
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _clean_formats(formats):
+        format_urls = set()
+        clean_formats = []
+        for f in formats:
+            if f['url'] not in format_urls:
+                if f.get('audio_ext') != 'none' and not f.get('acodec'):
+                    continue
+                format_urls.add(f['url'])
+                clean_formats.append(f)
+        formats[:] = clean_formats
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        url = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).group('url')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        title = self._html_search_meta(
+            ['twitter:title', 'og:title'], webpage, fatal=True)
+        player_data = re.findall(
+            r"PlayerFactory\.setParam\('(?P<type>format|param)',\s*'(?P<name>[^']+)',\s*'(?P<val>[^']+)'\);",
+            webpage)
+
+        formats = []
+        duration = thumb = None
+        for t, n, v in player_data:
+            if t == 'format':
+                if n in ('video-hds-vod-ec', 'video-hls-vod-ec', 'video-viralize', 'video-youtube-pfp'):
+                    continue
+                elif n.endswith('-vod-ak'):
+                    formats.extend(self._extract_akamai_formats(
+                        v, video_id, {'http': 'media.gedidigital.it'}))
+                else:
+                    ext = determine_ext(v)
+                    if ext == 'm3u8':
+                        formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                            v, video_id, 'mp4', 'm3u8_native', m3u8_id=n, fatal=False))
+                        continue
+                    f = {
+                        'format_id': n,
+                        'url': v,
+                    }
+                    if ext == 'mp3':
+                        abr = int_or_none(self._search_regex(
+                            r'-mp3-audio-(\d+)', v, 'abr', default=None))
+                        f.update({
+                            'abr': abr,
+                            'tbr': abr,
+                            'acodec': ext,
+                            'vcodec': 'none'
+                        })
+                    else:
+                        mobj = re.match(r'^video-rrtv-(\d+)(?:-(\d+))?$', n)
+                        if mobj:
+                            f.update({
+                                'height': int(mobj.group(1)),
+                                'vbr': int_or_none(mobj.group(2)),
+                            })
+                        if not f.get('vbr'):
+                            f['vbr'] = int_or_none(self._search_regex(
+                                r'-video-rrtv-(\d+)', v, 'abr', default=None))
+                    formats.append(f)
+            elif t == 'param':
+                if n in ['image_full', 'image']:
+                    thumb = v
+                elif n == 'videoDuration':
+                    duration = int_or_none(v)
+
+        self._clean_formats(formats)
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': self._html_search_meta(
+                ['twitter:description', 'og:description', 'description'], webpage),
+            'thumbnail': thumb or self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage),
+            'formats': formats,
+            'duration': duration,
+        }
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
@@ -127,13 +127,14 @@ from .expressen import ExpressenIE
 from .zype import ZypeIE
 from .odnoklassniki import OdnoklassnikiIE
 from .kinja import KinjaEmbedIE
-from .gedi import GediEmbedsIE
+from .gedidigital import GediDigitalIE
 from .rcs import RCSEmbedsIE
 from .bitchute import BitChuteIE
 from .rumble import RumbleEmbedIE
 from .arcpublishing import ArcPublishingIE
 from .medialaan import MedialaanIE
 from .simplecast import SimplecastIE
+from .wimtv import WimTVIE


 class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -2250,6 +2251,15 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
            },
            'playlist_mincount': 52,
        },
+        {
+            # WimTv embed player
+            'url': 'http://www.msmotor.tv/wearefmi-pt-2-2021/',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': 'wearefmi-pt-2-2021',
+                'title': '#WEAREFMI – PT.2 – 2021 – MsMotorTV',
+            },
+            'playlist_count': 1,
+        },
    ]

    def report_following_redirect(self, new_url):
@@ -3339,17 +3349,22 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
            return self.playlist_from_matches(
                zype_urls, video_id, video_title, ie=ZypeIE.ie_key())

-        # Look for RCS media group embeds
-        gedi_urls = GediEmbedsIE._extract_urls(webpage)
+        gedi_urls = GediDigitalIE._extract_urls(webpage)
        if gedi_urls:
            return self.playlist_from_matches(
-                gedi_urls, video_id, video_title, ie=GediEmbedsIE.ie_key())
+                gedi_urls, video_id, video_title, ie=GediDigitalIE.ie_key())

+        # Look for RCS media group embeds
        rcs_urls = RCSEmbedsIE._extract_urls(webpage)
        if rcs_urls:
            return self.playlist_from_matches(
                rcs_urls, video_id, video_title, ie=RCSEmbedsIE.ie_key())

+        wimtv_urls = WimTVIE._extract_urls(webpage)
+        if wimtv_urls:
+            return self.playlist_from_matches(
+                wimtv_urls, video_id, video_title, ie=WimTVIE.ie_key())
+
        bitchute_urls = BitChuteIE._extract_urls(webpage)
        if bitchute_urls:
            return self.playlist_from_matches(
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/ivi.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/ivi.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class IviIE(InfoExtractor):
                        expected=True)
                elif not pycryptodomex_found:
                    raise ExtractorError(
-                        'pycryptodomex not found. Please install it.',
+                        'pycryptodomex not found. Please install',
                        expected=True)
                elif message:
                    extractor_msg += ': ' + message
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/lbry.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/lbry.py
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ import json

 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..compat import (
+    compat_parse_qs,
    compat_str,
    compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
 )
 from ..utils import (
    determine_ext,
@@ -21,9 +23,9 @@ from ..utils import (


 class LBRYBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _BASE_URL_REGEX = r'https?://(?:www\.)?(?:lbry\.tv|odysee\.com)/'
+    _BASE_URL_REGEX = r'(?:https?://(?:www\.)?(?:lbry\.tv|odysee\.com)/|lbry://)'
    _CLAIM_ID_REGEX = r'[0-9a-f]{1,40}'
-    _OPT_CLAIM_ID = '[^:/?#&]+(?::%s)?' % _CLAIM_ID_REGEX
+    _OPT_CLAIM_ID = '[^:/?#&]+(?:[:#]%s)?' % _CLAIM_ID_REGEX
    _SUPPORTED_STREAM_TYPES = ['video', 'audio']

    def _call_api_proxy(self, method, display_id, params, resource):
@@ -41,7 +43,9 @@ class LBRYBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
            'resolve', display_id, {'urls': url}, resource)[url]

    def _permanent_url(self, url, claim_name, claim_id):
-        return urljoin(url, '/%s:%s' % (claim_name, claim_id))
+        return urljoin(
+            url.replace('lbry://', 'https://lbry.tv/'),
+            '/%s:%s' % (claim_name, claim_id))

    def _parse_stream(self, stream, url):
        stream_value = stream.get('value') or {}
@@ -60,6 +64,7 @@ class LBRYBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
            'description': stream_value.get('description'),
            'license': stream_value.get('license'),
            'timestamp': int_or_none(stream.get('timestamp')),
+            'release_timestamp': int_or_none(stream_value.get('release_time')),
            'tags': stream_value.get('tags'),
            'duration': int_or_none(media.get('duration')),
            'channel': try_get(signing_channel, lambda x: x['value']['title']),
@@ -92,6 +97,8 @@ class LBRYIE(LBRYBaseIE):
            'description': 'md5:f6cb5c704b332d37f5119313c2c98f51',
            'timestamp': 1595694354,
            'upload_date': '20200725',
+            'release_timestamp': 1595340697,
+            'release_date': '20200721',
            'width': 1280,
            'height': 720,
        }
@@ -106,6 +113,8 @@ class LBRYIE(LBRYBaseIE):
            'description': 'md5:661ac4f1db09f31728931d7b88807a61',
            'timestamp': 1591312601,
            'upload_date': '20200604',
+            'release_timestamp': 1591312421,
+            'release_date': '20200604',
            'tags': list,
            'duration': 2570,
            'channel': 'The LBRY Foundation',
@@ -137,6 +146,9 @@ class LBRYIE(LBRYBaseIE):
    }, {
        'url': 'https://lbry.tv/@lacajadepandora:a/TRUMP-EST%C3%81-BIEN-PUESTO-con-Pilar-Baselga,-Carlos-Senra,-Luis-Palacios-(720p_30fps_H264-192kbit_AAC):1',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'lbry://@lbry#3f/odysee#7',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
@@ -166,7 +178,7 @@ class LBRYIE(LBRYBaseIE):

 class LBRYChannelIE(LBRYBaseIE):
    IE_NAME = 'lbry:channel'
-    _VALID_URL = LBRYBaseIE._BASE_URL_REGEX + r'(?P<id>@%s)/?(?:[?#&]|$)' % LBRYBaseIE._OPT_CLAIM_ID
+    _VALID_URL = LBRYBaseIE._BASE_URL_REGEX + r'(?P<id>@%s)/?(?:[?&]|$)' % LBRYBaseIE._OPT_CLAIM_ID
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://lbry.tv/@LBRYFoundation:0',
        'info_dict': {
@@ -178,20 +190,24 @@ class LBRYChannelIE(LBRYBaseIE):
    }, {
        'url': 'https://lbry.tv/@LBRYFoundation',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'lbry://@lbry#3f',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]
    _PAGE_SIZE = 50

-    def _fetch_page(self, claim_id, url, page):
+    def _fetch_page(self, claim_id, url, params, page):
        page += 1
+        page_params = {
+            'channel_ids': [claim_id],
+            'claim_type': 'stream',
+            'no_totals': True,
+            'page': page,
+            'page_size': self._PAGE_SIZE,
+        }
+        page_params.update(params)
        result = self._call_api_proxy(
-            'claim_search', claim_id, {
-                'channel_ids': [claim_id],
-                'claim_type': 'stream',
-                'no_totals': True,
-                'page': page,
-                'page_size': self._PAGE_SIZE,
-                'stream_types': self._SUPPORTED_STREAM_TYPES,
-            }, 'page %d' % page)
+            'claim_search', claim_id, page_params, 'page %d' % page)
        for item in (result.get('items') or []):
            stream_claim_name = item.get('name')
            stream_claim_id = item.get('claim_id')
@@ -212,8 +228,31 @@ class LBRYChannelIE(LBRYBaseIE):
        result = self._resolve_url(
            'lbry://' + display_id, display_id, 'channel')
        claim_id = result['claim_id']
+        qs = compat_parse_qs(compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url).query)
+        content = qs.get('content', [None])[0]
+        params = {
+            'fee_amount': qs.get('fee_amount', ['>=0'])[0],
+            'order_by': {
+                'new': ['release_time'],
+                'top': ['effective_amount'],
+                'trending': ['trending_group', 'trending_mixed'],
+            }[qs.get('order', ['new'])[0]],
+            'stream_types': [content] if content in ['audio', 'video'] else self._SUPPORTED_STREAM_TYPES,
+        }
+        duration = qs.get('duration', [None])[0]
+        if duration:
+            params['duration'] = {
+                'long': '>=1200',
+                'short': '<=240',
+            }[duration]
+        language = qs.get('language', ['all'])[0]
+        if language != 'all':
+            languages = [language]
+            if language == 'en':
+                languages.append('none')
+            params['any_languages'] = languages
        entries = OnDemandPagedList(
-            functools.partial(self._fetch_page, claim_id, url),
+            functools.partial(self._fetch_page, claim_id, url, params),
            self._PAGE_SIZE)
        result_value = result.get('value') or {}
        return self.playlist_result(
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/linuxacademy.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/linuxacademy.py
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ class LinuxAcademyIE(InfoExtractor):
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'title': 'What Is Data Science',
            'description': 'md5:c574a3c20607144fb36cb65bdde76c99',
-            'timestamp': 1607387907,
-            'upload_date': '20201208',
+            'timestamp': int,  # The timestamp and upload date changes
+            'upload_date': r're:\d+',
            'duration': 304,
        },
        'params': {
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ class LinuxAcademyIE(InfoExtractor):
        },
        'playlist_count': 41,
        'skip': 'Requires Linux Academy account credentials',
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/39',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '39',
+            'title': 'Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator - RHCSA (EX200) Exam Prep  (legacy)',
+            'description': 'md5:0f1d3369e90c3fb14a79813b863c902f',
+            'duration': 89280,
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 73,
+        'skip': 'Requires Linux Academy account credentials',
    }]

    _AUTHORIZE_URL = 'https://login.linuxacademy.com/authorize'
@@ -162,7 +172,7 @@ class LinuxAcademyIE(InfoExtractor):
        if course_id:
            module = self._parse_json(
                self._search_regex(
-                    r'window\.module\s*=\s*({.+?})\s*;', webpage, 'module'),
+                    r'window\.module\s*=\s*({(?:(?!};)[^"]|"([^"]|\\")*")+})\s*;', webpage, 'module'),
                item_id)
            entries = []
            chapter_number = None
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/mlb.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/mlb.py
@@ -1,15 +1,91 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

-from .nhl import NHLBaseIE
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    determine_ext,
+    int_or_none,
+    parse_duration,
+    parse_iso8601,
+    try_get,
+)


-class MLBIE(NHLBaseIE):
+class MLBBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        display_id = self._match_id(url)
+        video = self._download_video_data(display_id)
+        video_id = video['id']
+        title = video['title']
+        feed = self._get_feed(video)
+
+        formats = []
+        for playback in (feed.get('playbacks') or []):
+            playback_url = playback.get('url')
+            if not playback_url:
+                continue
+            name = playback.get('name')
+            ext = determine_ext(playback_url)
+            if ext == 'm3u8':
+                formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    playback_url, video_id, 'mp4',
+                    'm3u8_native', m3u8_id=name, fatal=False))
+            else:
+                f = {
+                    'format_id': name,
+                    'url': playback_url,
+                }
+                mobj = re.search(r'_(\d+)K_(\d+)X(\d+)', name)
+                if mobj:
+                    f.update({
+                        'height': int(mobj.group(3)),
+                        'tbr': int(mobj.group(1)),
+                        'width': int(mobj.group(2)),
+                    })
+                mobj = re.search(r'_(\d+)x(\d+)_(\d+)_(\d+)K\.mp4', playback_url)
+                if mobj:
+                    f.update({
+                        'fps': int(mobj.group(3)),
+                        'height': int(mobj.group(2)),
+                        'tbr': int(mobj.group(4)),
+                        'width': int(mobj.group(1)),
+                    })
+                formats.append(f)
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        thumbnails = []
+        for cut in (try_get(feed, lambda x: x['image']['cuts'], list) or []):
+            src = cut.get('src')
+            if not src:
+                continue
+            thumbnails.append({
+                'height': int_or_none(cut.get('height')),
+                'url': src,
+                'width': int_or_none(cut.get('width')),
+            })
+
+        language = (video.get('language') or 'EN').lower()
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'description': video.get('description'),
+            'duration': parse_duration(feed.get('duration')),
+            'thumbnails': thumbnails,
+            'timestamp': parse_iso8601(video.get(self._TIMESTAMP_KEY)),
+            'subtitles': self._extract_mlb_subtitles(feed, language),
+        }
+
+
+class MLBIE(MLBBaseIE):
    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
                    https?://
-                        (?:[\da-z_-]+\.)*(?P<site>mlb)\.com/
+                        (?:[\da-z_-]+\.)*mlb\.com/
                        (?:
                            (?:
-                                (?:[^/]+/)*c-|
+                                (?:[^/]+/)*video/[^/]+/c-|
                                (?:
                                    shared/video/embed/(?:embed|m-internal-embed)\.html|
                                    (?:[^/]+/)+(?:play|index)\.jsp|
@@ -18,7 +94,6 @@ class MLBIE(NHLBaseIE):
                            (?P<id>\d+)
                        )
                    '''
-    _CONTENT_DOMAIN = 'content.mlb.com'
    _TESTS = [
        {
            'url': 'https://www.mlb.com/mariners/video/ackleys-spectacular-catch/c-34698933',
@@ -76,18 +151,6 @@ class MLBIE(NHLBaseIE):
                'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
            },
        },
-        {
-            'url': 'https://www.mlb.com/news/blue-jays-kevin-pillar-goes-spidey-up-the-wall-to-rob-tim-beckham-of-a-homer/c-118550098',
-            'md5': 'e09e37b552351fddbf4d9e699c924d68',
-            'info_dict': {
-                'id': '75609783',
-                'ext': 'mp4',
-                'title': 'Must C: Pillar climbs for catch',
-                'description': '4/15/15: Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar continues his defensive dominance by climbing the wall in left to rob Tim Beckham of a home run',
-                'timestamp': 1429139220,
-                'upload_date': '20150415',
-            }
-        },
        {
            'url': 'https://www.mlb.com/video/hargrove-homers-off-caldwell/c-1352023483?tid=67793694',
            'only_matching': True,
@@ -113,8 +176,92 @@ class MLBIE(NHLBaseIE):
            'url': 'http://mlb.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/m-internal-embed.html?content_id=75609783&property=mlb&autoplay=true&hashmode=false&siteSection=mlb/multimedia/article_118550098/article_embed&club=mlb',
            'only_matching': True,
        },
-        {
-            'url': 'https://www.mlb.com/cut4/carlos-gomez-borrowed-sunglasses-from-an-as-fan/c-278912842',
-            'only_matching': True,
-        }
    ]
+    _TIMESTAMP_KEY = 'date'
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_feed(video):
+        return video
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_mlb_subtitles(feed, language):
+        subtitles = {}
+        for keyword in (feed.get('keywordsAll') or []):
+            keyword_type = keyword.get('type')
+            if keyword_type and keyword_type.startswith('closed_captions_location_'):
+                cc_location = keyword.get('value')
+                if cc_location:
+                    subtitles.setdefault(language, []).append({
+                        'url': cc_location,
+                    })
+        return subtitles
+
+    def _download_video_data(self, display_id):
+        return self._download_json(
+            'http://content.mlb.com/mlb/item/id/v1/%s/details/web-v1.json' % display_id,
+            display_id)
+
+
+class MLBVideoIE(MLBBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?mlb\.com/(?:[^/]+/)*video/(?P<id>[^/?&#]+)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://www.mlb.com/mariners/video/ackley-s-spectacular-catch-c34698933',
+        'md5': '632358dacfceec06bad823b83d21df2d',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'c04a8863-f569-42e6-9f87-992393657614',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': "Ackley's spectacular catch",
+            'description': 'md5:7f5a981eb4f3cbc8daf2aeffa2215bf0',
+            'duration': 66,
+            'timestamp': 1405995000,
+            'upload_date': '20140722',
+            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.+',
+        },
+    }
+    _TIMESTAMP_KEY = 'timestamp'
+
+    @classmethod
+    def suitable(cls, url):
+        return False if MLBIE.suitable(url) else super(MLBVideoIE, cls).suitable(url)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_feed(video):
+        return video['feeds'][0]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_mlb_subtitles(feed, language):
+        subtitles = {}
+        for cc_location in (feed.get('closedCaptions') or []):
+            subtitles.setdefault(language, []).append({
+                'url': cc_location,
+            })
+
+    def _download_video_data(self, display_id):
+        # https://www.mlb.com/data-service/en/videos/[SLUG]
+        return self._download_json(
+            'https://fastball-gateway.mlb.com/graphql',
+            display_id, query={
+                'query': '''{
+  mediaPlayback(ids: "%s") {
+    description
+    feeds(types: CMS) {
+      closedCaptions
+      duration
+      image {
+        cuts {
+          width
+          height
+          src
+        }
+      }
+      playbacks {
+        name
+        url
+      }
+    }
+    id
+    timestamp
+    title
+  }
+}''' % display_id,
+            })['data']['mediaPlayback'][0]
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/mtv.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/mtv.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from ..utils import (
    fix_xml_ampersands,
    float_or_none,
    HEADRequest,
+    int_or_none,
    RegexNotFoundError,
    sanitized_Request,
    strip_or_none,
@@ -176,6 +177,22 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
            raise ExtractorError('Could not find video title')
        title = title.strip()

+        series = find_xpath_attr(
+            itemdoc, './/{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}category',
+            'scheme', 'urn:mtvn:franchise')
+        season = find_xpath_attr(
+            itemdoc, './/{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}category',
+            'scheme', 'urn:mtvn:seasonN')
+        episode = find_xpath_attr(
+            itemdoc, './/{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}category',
+            'scheme', 'urn:mtvn:episodeN')
+        series = series.text if series is not None else None
+        season = season.text if season is not None else None
+        episode = episode.text if episode is not None else None
+        if season and episode:
+            # episode number includes season, so remove it
+            episode = re.sub(r'^%s' % season, '', episode)
+
        # This a short id that's used in the webpage urls
        mtvn_id = None
        mtvn_id_node = find_xpath_attr(itemdoc, './/{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}category',
@@ -201,6 +218,9 @@ class MTVServicesInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
            'description': description,
            'duration': float_or_none(content_el.attrib.get('duration')),
            'timestamp': timestamp,
+            'series': series,
+            'season_number': int_or_none(season),
+            'episode_number': int_or_none(episode),
        }

    def _get_feed_query(self, uri):
@@ -483,3 +503,152 @@ class MTVDEIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
            'arcEp': 'mtv.de',
            'mgid': uri,
        }
+
+
+class MTVItaliaIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'mtv.it'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?mtv\.it/(?:episodi|video|musica)/(?P<id>[0-9a-z]+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://www.mtv.it/episodi/24bqab/mario-una-serie-di-maccio-capatonda-cavoli-amario-episodio-completo-S1-E1',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0f0fc78e-45fc-4cce-8f24-971c25477530',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Cavoli amario (episodio completo)',
+            'description': 'md5:4962bccea8fed5b7c03b295ae1340660',
+            'series': 'Mario - Una Serie Di Maccio Capatonda',
+            'season_number': 1,
+            'episode_number': 1,
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }]
+    _GEO_COUNTRIES = ['IT']
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://feeds.mtvnservices.com/od/feed/intl-mrss-player-feed'
+
+    def _get_feed_query(self, uri):
+        return {
+            'arcEp': 'mtv.it',
+            'mgid': uri,
+        }
+
+
+class MTVItaliaProgrammaIE(MTVItaliaIE):
+    IE_NAME = 'mtv.it:programma'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?mtv\.it/(?:programmi|playlist)/(?P<id>[0-9a-z]+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        # program page: general
+        'url': 'http://www.mtv.it/programmi/s2rppv/mario-una-serie-di-maccio-capatonda',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'a6f155bc-8220-4640-aa43-9b95f64ffa3d',
+            'title': 'Mario - Una Serie Di Maccio Capatonda',
+            'description': 'md5:72fbffe1f77ccf4e90757dd4e3216153',
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 2,
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }, {
+        # program page: specific season
+        'url': 'http://www.mtv.it/programmi/d9ncjf/mario-una-serie-di-maccio-capatonda-S2',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '4deeb5d8-f272-490c-bde2-ff8d261c6dd1',
+            'title': 'Mario - Una Serie Di Maccio Capatonda - Stagione 2',
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 34,
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }, {
+        # playlist page + redirect
+        'url': 'http://www.mtv.it/playlist/sexy-videos/ilctal',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'dee8f9ee-756d-493b-bf37-16d1d2783359',
+            'title': 'Sexy Videos',
+        },
+        'playlist_mincount': 145,
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }]
+    _GEO_COUNTRIES = ['IT']
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://www.mtv.it/feeds/triforce/manifest/v8'
+
+    def _get_entries(self, title, url):
+        while True:
+            pg = self._search_regex(r'/(\d+)$', url, 'entries', '1')
+            entries = self._download_json(url, title, 'page %s' % pg)
+            url = try_get(
+                entries, lambda x: x['result']['nextPageURL'], compat_str)
+            entries = try_get(
+                entries, (
+                    lambda x: x['result']['data']['items'],
+                    lambda x: x['result']['data']['seasons']),
+                list)
+            for entry in entries or []:
+                if entry.get('canonicalURL'):
+                    yield self.url_result(entry['canonicalURL'])
+            if not url:
+                break
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        query = {'url': url}
+        info_url = update_url_query(self._FEED_URL, query)
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        info = self._download_json(info_url, video_id).get('manifest')
+
+        redirect = try_get(
+            info, lambda x: x['newLocation']['url'], compat_str)
+        if redirect:
+            return self.url_result(redirect)
+
+        title = info.get('title')
+        video_id = try_get(
+            info, lambda x: x['reporting']['itemId'], compat_str)
+        parent_id = try_get(
+            info, lambda x: x['reporting']['parentId'], compat_str)
+
+        playlist_url = current_url = None
+        for z in (info.get('zones') or {}).values():
+            if z.get('moduleName') in ('INTL_M304', 'INTL_M209'):
+                info_url = z.get('feed')
+            if z.get('moduleName') in ('INTL_M308', 'INTL_M317'):
+                playlist_url = playlist_url or z.get('feed')
+            if z.get('moduleName') in ('INTL_M300',):
+                current_url = current_url or z.get('feed')
+
+        if not info_url:
+            raise ExtractorError('No info found')
+
+        if video_id == parent_id:
+            video_id = self._search_regex(
+                r'([^\/]+)/[^\/]+$', info_url, 'video_id')
+
+        info = self._download_json(info_url, video_id, 'Show infos')
+        info = try_get(info, lambda x: x['result']['data'], dict)
+        title = title or try_get(
+            info, (
+                lambda x: x['title'],
+                lambda x: x['headline']),
+            compat_str)
+        description = try_get(info, lambda x: x['content'], compat_str)
+
+        if current_url:
+            season = try_get(
+                self._download_json(playlist_url, video_id, 'Seasons info'),
+                lambda x: x['result']['data'], dict)
+            current = try_get(
+                season, lambda x: x['currentSeason'], compat_str)
+            seasons = try_get(
+                season, lambda x: x['seasons'], list) or []
+
+            if current in [s.get('eTitle') for s in seasons]:
+                playlist_url = current_url
+
+        title = re.sub(
+            r'[-|]\s*(?:mtv\s*italia|programma|playlist)',
+            '', title, flags=re.IGNORECASE).strip()
+
+        return self.playlist_result(
+            self._get_entries(title, playlist_url),
+            video_id, title, description)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/mxplayer.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/mxplayer.py
@@ -6,98 +6,122 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
    ExtractorError,
    js_to_json,
+    qualities,
+    try_get,
    url_or_none,
    urljoin,
 )


-VALID_STREAMS = ('dash', )
-
-
 class MxplayerIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?mxplayer\.in/movie/(?P<slug>[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*)'
-    _TEST = {
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?mxplayer\.in/(?:show|movie)/(?:(?P<display_id>[-/a-z0-9]+)-)?(?P<id>[a-z0-9]+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://www.mxplayer.in/movie/watch-knock-knock-hindi-dubbed-movie-online-b9fa28df3bfb8758874735bbd7d2655a?watch=true',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'b9fa28df3bfb8758874735bbd7d2655a',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Knock Knock Movie | Watch 2015 Knock Knock Full Movie Online- MX Player',
+            'title': 'Knock Knock (Hindi Dubbed)',
            'description': 'md5:b195ba93ff1987309cfa58e2839d2a5b'
        },
        'params': {
            'skip_download': True,
            'format': 'bestvideo'
        }
-    }
-
-    def _get_best_stream_url(self, stream):
-        best_stream = list(filter(None, [v for k, v in stream.items()]))
-        return best_stream.pop(0) if len(best_stream) else None
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.mxplayer.in/show/watch-shaitaan/season-1/the-infamous-taxi-gang-of-meerut-online-45055d5bcff169ad48f2ad7552a83d6c',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '45055d5bcff169ad48f2ad7552a83d6c',
+            'ext': 'm3u8',
+            'title': 'The infamous taxi gang of Meerut',
+            'description': 'md5:033a0a7e3fd147be4fb7e07a01a3dc28',
+            'season': 'Season 1',
+            'series': 'Shaitaan'
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        }
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.mxplayer.in/show/watch-aashram/chapter-1/duh-swapna-online-d445579792b0135598ba1bc9088a84cb',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'd445579792b0135598ba1bc9088a84cb',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Duh Swapna',
+            'description': 'md5:35ff39c4bdac403c53be1e16a04192d8',
+            'season': 'Chapter 1',
+            'series': 'Aashram'
+        },
+        'expected_warnings': ['Unknown MIME type application/mp4 in DASH manifest'],
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+            'format': 'bestvideo'
+        }
+    }]

    def _get_stream_urls(self, video_dict):
-        stream_dict = video_dict.get('stream', {'provider': {}})
-        stream_provider = stream_dict.get('provider')
+        stream_provider_dict = try_get(
+            video_dict,
+            lambda x: x['stream'][x['stream']['provider']])
+        if not stream_provider_dict:
+            raise ExtractorError('No stream provider found', expected=True)

-        if not stream_dict[stream_provider]:
-            message = 'No stream provider found'
-            raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, message), expected=True)
-
-        streams = []
-        for stream_name, v in stream_dict[stream_provider].items():
-            if stream_name in VALID_STREAMS:
-                stream_url = self._get_best_stream_url(v)
-                if stream_url is None:
-                    continue
-                streams.append((stream_name, stream_url))
-        return streams
+        for stream_name, stream in stream_provider_dict.items():
+            if stream_name in ('hls', 'dash', 'hlsUrl', 'dashUrl'):
+                stream_type = stream_name.replace('Url', '')
+                if isinstance(stream, dict):
+                    for quality, stream_url in stream.items():
+                        if stream_url:
+                            yield stream_type, quality, stream_url
+                else:
+                    yield stream_type, 'base', stream

    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_slug = mobj.group('slug')
-
-        video_id = video_slug.split('-')[-1]
-
+        display_id, video_id = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).groups()
        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)

-        window_state_json = self._html_search_regex(
-            r'(?s)<script>window\.state\s*[:=]\s(\{.+\})\n(\w+).*(</script>).*',
-            webpage, 'WindowState')
-
-        source = self._parse_json(js_to_json(window_state_json), video_id)
+        source = self._parse_json(
+            js_to_json(self._html_search_regex(
+                r'(?s)<script>window\.state\s*[:=]\s(\{.+\})\n(\w+).*(</script>).*',
+                webpage, 'WindowState')),
+            video_id)
        if not source:
            raise ExtractorError('Cannot find source', expected=True)

        config_dict = source['config']
        video_dict = source['entities'][video_id]
-        stream_urls = self._get_stream_urls(video_dict)

-        title = self._og_search_title(webpage, fatal=True, default=video_dict['title'])
+        thumbnails = []
+        for i in video_dict.get('imageInfo') or []:
+            thumbnails.append({
+                'url': urljoin(config_dict['imageBaseUrl'], i['url']),
+                'width': i['width'],
+                'height': i['height'],
+            })

        formats = []
-        headers = {'Referer': url}
-        for stream_name, stream_url in stream_urls:
-            if stream_name == 'dash':
-                format_url = url_or_none(urljoin(config_dict['videoCdnBaseUrl'], stream_url))
-                if not format_url:
-                    continue
-                formats.extend(self._extract_mpd_formats(
-                    format_url, video_id, mpd_id='dash', headers=headers))
+        get_quality = qualities(['main', 'base', 'high'])
+        for stream_type, quality, stream_url in self._get_stream_urls(video_dict):
+            format_url = url_or_none(urljoin(config_dict['videoCdnBaseUrl'], stream_url))
+            if not format_url:
+                continue
+            if stream_type == 'dash':
+                dash_formats = self._extract_mpd_formats(
+                    format_url, video_id, mpd_id='dash-%s' % quality, headers={'Referer': url})
+                for frmt in dash_formats:
+                    frmt['quality'] = get_quality(quality)
+                formats.extend(dash_formats)
+            elif stream_type == 'hls':
+                formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    format_url, video_id, fatal=False,
+                    m3u8_id='hls-%s' % quality, quality=get_quality(quality)))

        self._sort_formats(formats)
-        info = {
+        return {
            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
+            'display_id': display_id.replace('/', '-'),
+            'title': video_dict['title'] or self._og_search_title(webpage),
+            'formats': formats,
            'description': video_dict.get('description'),
-            'formats': formats
+            'season': try_get(video_dict, lambda x: x['container']['title']),
+            'series': try_get(video_dict, lambda x: x['container']['container']['title']),
+            'thumbnails': thumbnails,
        }
-
-        if video_dict.get('imageInfo'):
-            info['thumbnails'] = list(map(lambda i: dict(i, **{
-                'url': urljoin(config_dict['imageBaseUrl'], i['url'])
-            }), video_dict['imageInfo']))
-
-        if video_dict.get('webUrl'):
-            last_part = video_dict['webUrl'].split("/")[-1]
-            info['display_id'] = last_part.replace(video_id, "").rstrip("-")
-
-        return info
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/nbc.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/nbc.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from .adobepass import AdobePassIE
 from ..compat import compat_urllib_parse_unquote
 from ..utils import (
    int_or_none,
+    parse_age_limit,
    parse_duration,
    smuggle_url,
    try_get,
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ from ..utils import (
 )


-class NBCIE(AdobePassIE):
+class NBCIE(ThePlatformIE):
    _VALID_URL = r'https?(?P<permalink>://(?:www\.)?nbc\.com/(?:classic-tv/)?[^/]+/video/[^/]+/(?P<id>n?\d+))'

    _TESTS = [
@@ -132,7 +133,9 @@ class NBCIE(AdobePassIE):
            'manifest': 'm3u',
        }
        video_id = video_data['mpxGuid']
-        title = video_data['secondaryTitle']
+        tp_path = 'NnzsPC/media/guid/%s/%s' % (video_data.get('mpxAccountId') or '2410887629', video_id)
+        tpm = self._download_theplatform_metadata(tp_path, video_id)
+        title = tpm.get('title') or video_data.get('secondaryTitle')
        if video_data.get('locked'):
            resource = self._get_mvpd_resource(
                video_data.get('resourceId') or 'nbcentertainment',
@@ -142,18 +145,40 @@ class NBCIE(AdobePassIE):
        theplatform_url = smuggle_url(update_url_query(
            'http://link.theplatform.com/s/NnzsPC/media/guid/%s/%s' % (video_data.get('mpxAccountId') or '2410887629', video_id),
            query), {'force_smil_url': True})
+
+        # Empty string or 0 can be valid values for these. So the check must be `is None`
+        description = video_data.get('description')
+        if description is None:
+            description = tpm.get('description')
+        episode_number = int_or_none(video_data.get('episodeNumber'))
+        if episode_number is None:
+            episode_number = int_or_none(tpm.get('nbcu$airOrder'))
+        rating = video_data.get('rating')
+        if rating is None:
+            try_get(tpm, lambda x: x['ratings'][0]['rating'])
+        season_number = int_or_none(video_data.get('seasonNumber'))
+        if season_number is None:
+            season_number = int_or_none(tpm.get('nbcu$seasonNumber'))
+        series = video_data.get('seriesShortTitle')
+        if series is None:
+            series = tpm.get('nbcu$seriesShortTitle')
+        tags = video_data.get('keywords')
+        if tags is None or len(tags) == 0:
+            tags = tpm.get('keywords')
+
        return {
            '_type': 'url_transparent',
+            'age_limit': parse_age_limit(rating),
+            'description': description,
+            'episode': title,
+            'episode_number': episode_number,
            'id': video_id,
+            'ie_key': 'ThePlatform',
+            'season_number': season_number,
+            'series': series,
+            'tags': tags,
            'title': title,
            'url': theplatform_url,
-            'description': video_data.get('description'),
-            'tags': video_data.get('keywords'),
-            'season_number': int_or_none(video_data.get('seasonNumber')),
-            'episode_number': int_or_none(video_data.get('episodeNumber')),
-            'episode': title,
-            'series': video_data.get('seriesShortTitle'),
-            'ie_key': 'ThePlatform',
        }


--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/niconico.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import datetime
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..postprocessor.ffmpeg import FFmpegPostProcessor
 from ..compat import (
+    compat_str,
    compat_parse_qs,
    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
 )
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ from ..utils import (
    parse_duration,
    parse_iso8601,
    PostProcessingError,
+    str_or_none,
    remove_start,
    try_get,
    unified_timestamp,
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):

    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22312215',
-        'md5': 'd1a75c0823e2f629128c43e1212760f9',
+        'md5': 'a5bad06f1347452102953f323c69da34s',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'sm22312215',
            'ext': 'mp4',
@@ -203,7 +205,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
            'data-api-data="([^"]+)"', webpage,
            'API data', default='{}'), video_id)

-        session_api_data = try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['video']['dmcInfo']['session_api'])
+        session_api_data = try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['media']['delivery']['movie']['session'])
        session_api_endpoint = try_get(session_api_data, lambda x: x['urls'][0])

        # ping
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
        yesno = lambda x: 'yes' if x else 'no'

        # m3u8 (encryption)
-        if 'encryption' in try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['video']['dmcInfo']) or {}:
+        if 'encryption' in (try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['media']['delivery']['movie']) or {}):
            protocol = 'm3u8'
            session_api_http_parameters = {
                'parameters': {
@@ -244,8 +246,8 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
            session_api_http_parameters = {
                'parameters': {
                    'http_output_download_parameters': {
-                        'use_ssl': yesno(session_api_endpoint['is_ssl']),
-                        'use_well_known_port': yesno(session_api_endpoint['is_well_known_port']),
+                        'use_ssl': yesno(session_api_endpoint['isSsl']),
+                        'use_well_known_port': yesno(session_api_endpoint['isWellKnownPort']),
                    }
                }
            }
@@ -258,15 +260,15 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
            data=json.dumps({
                'session': {
                    'client_info': {
-                        'player_id': session_api_data.get('player_id'),
+                        'player_id': session_api_data.get('playerId'),
                    },
                    'content_auth': {
-                        'auth_type': try_get(session_api_data, lambda x: x['auth_types'][session_api_data['protocols'][0]]),
-                        'content_key_timeout': session_api_data.get('content_key_timeout'),
+                        'auth_type': try_get(session_api_data, lambda x: x['authTypes'][session_api_data['protocols'][0]]),
+                        'content_key_timeout': session_api_data.get('contentKeyTimeout'),
                        'service_id': 'nicovideo',
-                        'service_user_id': session_api_data.get('service_user_id')
+                        'service_user_id': session_api_data.get('serviceUserId')
                    },
-                    'content_id': session_api_data.get('content_id'),
+                    'content_id': session_api_data.get('contentId'),
                    'content_src_id_sets': [{
                        'content_src_ids': [{
                            'src_id_to_mux': {
@@ -279,7 +281,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
                    'content_uri': '',
                    'keep_method': {
                        'heartbeat': {
-                            'lifetime': session_api_data.get('heartbeat_lifetime')
+                            'lifetime': session_api_data.get('heartbeatLifetime')
                        }
                    },
                    'priority': session_api_data.get('priority'),
@@ -289,7 +291,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
                            'http_parameters': session_api_http_parameters
                        }
                    },
-                    'recipe_id': session_api_data.get('recipe_id'),
+                    'recipe_id': session_api_data.get('recipeId'),
                    'session_operation_auth': {
                        'session_operation_auth_by_signature': {
                            'signature': session_api_data.get('signature'),
@@ -308,7 +310,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
            'url': session_api_endpoint['url'] + '/' + session_response['data']['session']['id'] + '?_format=json&_method=PUT',
            'data': json.dumps(session_response['data']),
            # interval, convert milliseconds to seconds, then halve to make a buffer.
-            'interval': float_or_none(session_api_data.get('heartbeat_lifetime'), scale=2000),
+            'interval': float_or_none(session_api_data.get('heartbeatLifetime'), scale=2000),
        }

        return info_dict, heartbeat_info_dict
@@ -327,15 +329,17 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
        format_id = '-'.join(map(lambda s: remove_start(s['id'], 'archive_'), [video_quality, audio_quality]))
        vdict = parse_format_id(video_quality['id'])
        adict = parse_format_id(audio_quality['id'])
-        resolution = video_quality.get('resolution', {'height': vdict.get('res')})
+        resolution = try_get(video_quality, lambda x: x['metadata']['resolution'], dict) or {'height': vdict.get('res')}
+        vbr = try_get(video_quality, lambda x: x['metadata']['bitrate'], float)

        return {
            'url': '%s:%s/%s/%s' % (protocol, video_id, video_quality['id'], audio_quality['id']),
            'format_id': format_id,
+            'format_note': 'DMC %s' % try_get(video_quality, lambda x: x['metadata']['label'], compat_str),
            'ext': 'mp4',  # Session API are used in HTML5, which always serves mp4
            'vcodec': vdict.get('codec'),
            'acodec': adict.get('codec'),
-            'vbr': float_or_none(video_quality.get('bitrate'), 1000) or float_or_none(vdict.get('br')),
+            'vbr': float_or_none(vbr, 1000) or float_or_none(vdict.get('br')),
            'abr': float_or_none(audio_quality.get('bitrate'), 1000) or float_or_none(adict.get('br')),
            'height': int_or_none(resolution.get('height', vdict.get('res'))),
            'width': int_or_none(resolution.get('width')),
@@ -394,92 +398,93 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
        formats = []

        # Get HTML5 videos info
-        try:
-            dmc_info = api_data['video']['dmcInfo']
-        except KeyError:
-            raise ExtractorError('The video can\'t downloaded.',
-                                 expected=True)
+        quality_info = try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['media']['delivery']['movie'])
+        if not quality_info:
+            raise ExtractorError('The video can\'t downloaded.', expected=True)

-        quality_info = dmc_info.get('quality')
        for audio_quality in quality_info.get('audios') or {}:
            for video_quality in quality_info.get('videos') or {}:
-                if not audio_quality.get('available') or not video_quality.get('available'):
+                if not audio_quality.get('isAvailable') or not video_quality.get('isAvailable'):
                    continue
                formats.append(self._extract_format_for_quality(
                    api_data, video_id, audio_quality, video_quality))

        # Get flv/swf info
+        timestamp = None
        video_real_url = try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['video']['smileInfo']['url'])
-        is_economy = video_real_url.endswith('low')
+        if not video_real_url:
+            self.report_warning('Unable to obtain smile video information')
+        else:
+            is_economy = video_real_url.endswith('low')

-        if is_economy:
-            self.report_warning('Site is currently in economy mode! You will only have access to lower quality streams')
+            if is_economy:
+                self.report_warning('Site is currently in economy mode! You will only have access to lower quality streams')

-        # Invoking ffprobe to determine resolution
-        pp = FFmpegPostProcessor(self._downloader)
-        cookies = self._get_cookies('https://nicovideo.jp').output(header='', sep='; path=/; domain=nicovideo.jp;\n')
+            # Invoking ffprobe to determine resolution
+            pp = FFmpegPostProcessor(self._downloader)
+            cookies = self._get_cookies('https://nicovideo.jp').output(header='', sep='; path=/; domain=nicovideo.jp;\n')

-        self.to_screen('%s: %s' % (video_id, 'Checking smile format with ffprobe'))
+            self.to_screen('%s: %s' % (video_id, 'Checking smile format with ffprobe'))

-        try:
-            metadata = pp.get_metadata_object(video_real_url, ['-cookies', cookies])
-        except PostProcessingError as err:
-            raise ExtractorError(err.msg, expected=True)
+            try:
+                metadata = pp.get_metadata_object(video_real_url, ['-cookies', cookies])
+            except PostProcessingError as err:
+                raise ExtractorError(err.msg, expected=True)

-        v_stream = a_stream = {}
+            v_stream = a_stream = {}

-        # Some complex swf files doesn't have video stream (e.g. nm4809023)
-        for stream in metadata['streams']:
-            if stream['codec_type'] == 'video':
-                v_stream = stream
-            elif stream['codec_type'] == 'audio':
-                a_stream = stream
+            # Some complex swf files doesn't have video stream (e.g. nm4809023)
+            for stream in metadata['streams']:
+                if stream['codec_type'] == 'video':
+                    v_stream = stream
+                elif stream['codec_type'] == 'audio':
+                    a_stream = stream

-        # Community restricted videos seem to have issues with the thumb API not returning anything at all
-        filesize = int(
-            (get_video_info_xml('size_high') if not is_economy else get_video_info_xml('size_low'))
-            or metadata['format']['size']
-        )
-        extension = (
-            get_video_info_xml('movie_type')
-            or 'mp4' if 'mp4' in metadata['format']['format_name'] else metadata['format']['format_name']
-        )
+            # Community restricted videos seem to have issues with the thumb API not returning anything at all
+            filesize = int(
+                (get_video_info_xml('size_high') if not is_economy else get_video_info_xml('size_low'))
+                or metadata['format']['size']
+            )
+            extension = (
+                get_video_info_xml('movie_type')
+                or 'mp4' if 'mp4' in metadata['format']['format_name'] else metadata['format']['format_name']
+            )

-        # 'creation_time' tag on video stream of re-encoded SMILEVIDEO mp4 files are '1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z'.
-        timestamp = (
-            parse_iso8601(get_video_info_web('first_retrieve'))
-            or unified_timestamp(get_video_info_web('postedDateTime'))
-        )
-        metadata_timestamp = (
-            parse_iso8601(try_get(v_stream, lambda x: x['tags']['creation_time']))
-            or timestamp if extension != 'mp4' else 0
-        )
+            # 'creation_time' tag on video stream of re-encoded SMILEVIDEO mp4 files are '1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z'.
+            timestamp = (
+                parse_iso8601(get_video_info_web('first_retrieve'))
+                or unified_timestamp(get_video_info_web('postedDateTime'))
+            )
+            metadata_timestamp = (
+                parse_iso8601(try_get(v_stream, lambda x: x['tags']['creation_time']))
+                or timestamp if extension != 'mp4' else 0
+            )

-        # According to compconf, smile videos from pre-2017 are always better quality than their DMC counterparts
-        smile_threshold_timestamp = parse_iso8601('2016-12-08T00:00:00+09:00')
+            # According to compconf, smile videos from pre-2017 are always better quality than their DMC counterparts
+            smile_threshold_timestamp = parse_iso8601('2016-12-08T00:00:00+09:00')

-        is_source = timestamp < smile_threshold_timestamp or metadata_timestamp > 0
+            is_source = timestamp < smile_threshold_timestamp or metadata_timestamp > 0

-        # If movie file size is unstable, old server movie is not source movie.
-        if filesize > 1:
-            formats.append({
-                'url': video_real_url,
-                'format_id': 'smile' if not is_economy else 'smile_low',
-                'format_note': 'SMILEVIDEO source' if not is_economy else 'SMILEVIDEO low quality',
-                'ext': extension,
-                'container': extension,
-                'vcodec': v_stream.get('codec_name'),
-                'acodec': a_stream.get('codec_name'),
-                # Some complex swf files doesn't have total bit rate metadata (e.g. nm6049209)
-                'tbr': int_or_none(metadata['format'].get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
-                'vbr': int_or_none(v_stream.get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
-                'abr': int_or_none(a_stream.get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
-                'height': int_or_none(v_stream.get('height')),
-                'width': int_or_none(v_stream.get('width')),
-                'source_preference': 5 if not is_economy else -2,
-                'quality': 5 if is_source and not is_economy else None,
-                'filesize': filesize
-            })
+            # If movie file size is unstable, old server movie is not source movie.
+            if filesize > 1:
+                formats.append({
+                    'url': video_real_url,
+                    'format_id': 'smile' if not is_economy else 'smile_low',
+                    'format_note': 'SMILEVIDEO source' if not is_economy else 'SMILEVIDEO low quality',
+                    'ext': extension,
+                    'container': extension,
+                    'vcodec': v_stream.get('codec_name'),
+                    'acodec': a_stream.get('codec_name'),
+                    # Some complex swf files doesn't have total bit rate metadata (e.g. nm6049209)
+                    'tbr': int_or_none(metadata['format'].get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
+                    'vbr': int_or_none(v_stream.get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
+                    'abr': int_or_none(a_stream.get('bit_rate'), scale=1000),
+                    'height': int_or_none(v_stream.get('height')),
+                    'width': int_or_none(v_stream.get('width')),
+                    'source_preference': 5 if not is_economy else -2,
+                    'quality': 5 if is_source and not is_economy else None,
+                    'filesize': filesize
+                })

        if len(formats) == 0:
            raise ExtractorError('Unable to find video info.')
@@ -517,6 +522,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
            timestamp = parse_iso8601(
                video_detail['postedAt'].replace('/', '-'),
                delimiter=' ', timezone=datetime.timedelta(hours=9))
+        timestamp = timestamp or try_get(api_data, lambda x: parse_iso8601(x['video']['registeredAt']))

        view_count = int_or_none(get_video_info_web(['view_counter', 'viewCount']))
        if not view_count:
@@ -525,11 +531,16 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
                webpage, 'view count', default=None)
            if match:
                view_count = int_or_none(match.replace(',', ''))
-        view_count = view_count or video_detail.get('viewCount')
+        view_count = (
+            view_count
+            or video_detail.get('viewCount')
+            or try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['video']['count']['view']))
+
+        comment_count = (
+            int_or_none(get_video_info_web('comment_num'))
+            or video_detail.get('commentCount')
+            or try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['video']['count']['comment']))

-        comment_count = (int_or_none(get_video_info_web('comment_num'))
-                         or video_detail.get('commentCount')
-                         or try_get(api_data, lambda x: x['thread']['commentCount']))
        if not comment_count:
            match = self._html_search_regex(
                r'>Comments: <strong[^>]*>([^<]+)</strong>',
@@ -559,7 +570,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):
        # Note: cannot use api_data.get('owner', {}) because owner may be set to "null"
        # in the JSON, which will cause None to be returned instead of {}.
        owner = try_get(api_data, lambda x: x.get('owner'), dict) or {}
-        uploader_id = (
+        uploader_id = str_or_none(
            get_video_info_web(['ch_id', 'user_id'])
            or owner.get('id')
            or channel_id
@@ -589,7 +600,7 @@ class NiconicoIE(InfoExtractor):


 class NiconicoPlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?nicovideo\.jp/(?:user/\d+/)?mylist/(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?nicovideo\.jp/(?:user/\d+/|my/)?mylist/(?P<id>\d+)'

    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/27411728',
@@ -647,3 +658,40 @@ class NiconicoPlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
            'uploader_id': uploader_id,
            'entries': OnDemandPagedList(pagefunc, 25),
        }
+
+
+class NiconicoUserIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?nicovideo\.jp/user/(?P<id>\d+)/?(?:$|[#?])'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://www.nicovideo.jp/user/419948',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '419948',
+        },
+        'playlist_mincount': 101,
+    }
+    _API_URL = "https://nvapi.nicovideo.jp/v1/users/%s/videos?sortKey=registeredAt&sortOrder=desc&pageSize=%s&page=%s"
+    _api_headers = {
+        'X-Frontend-ID': '6',
+        'X-Frontend-Version': '0',
+        'X-Niconico-Language': 'en-us'
+    }
+    _PAGE_SIZE = 100
+
+    def _entries(self, list_id, ):
+        total_count = 1
+        count = page_num = 0
+        while count < total_count:
+            json_parsed = self._download_json(
+                self._API_URL % (list_id, self._PAGE_SIZE, page_num + 1), list_id,
+                headers=self._api_headers,
+                note='Downloading JSON metadata%s' % (' page %d' % page_num if page_num else ''))
+            if not page_num:
+                total_count = int_or_none(json_parsed['data'].get('totalCount'))
+            for entry in json_parsed["data"]["items"]:
+                count += 1
+                yield self.url_result('https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/%s' % entry['id'])
+            page_num += 1
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        list_id = self._match_id(url)
+        return self.playlist_result(self._entries(list_id), list_id, ie=NiconicoIE.ie_key())
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/peertube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/peertube.py
@@ -599,11 +599,13 @@ class PeerTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
        else:
            age_limit = None

+        webpage_url = 'https://%s/videos/watch/%s' % (host, video_id)
+
        return {
            'id': video_id,
            'title': title,
            'description': description,
-            'thumbnail': urljoin(url, video.get('thumbnailPath')),
+            'thumbnail': urljoin(webpage_url, video.get('thumbnailPath')),
            'timestamp': unified_timestamp(video.get('publishedAt')),
            'uploader': account_data('displayName', compat_str),
            'uploader_id': str_or_none(account_data('id', int)),
@@ -621,5 +623,6 @@ class PeerTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
            'tags': try_get(video, lambda x: x['tags'], list),
            'categories': categories,
            'formats': formats,
-            'subtitles': subtitles
+            'subtitles': subtitles,
+            'webpage_url': webpage_url,
        }
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/pinterest.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/pinterest.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ class PinterestBaseIE(InfoExtractor):

        title = (data.get('title') or data.get('grid_title') or video_id).strip()

+        urls = []
        formats = []
        duration = None
        if extract_formats:
@@ -38,8 +39,9 @@ class PinterestBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
                if not isinstance(format_dict, dict):
                    continue
                format_url = url_or_none(format_dict.get('url'))
-                if not format_url:
+                if not format_url or format_url in urls:
                    continue
+                urls.append(format_url)
                duration = float_or_none(format_dict.get('duration'), scale=1000)
                ext = determine_ext(format_url)
                if 'hls' in format_id.lower() or ext == 'm3u8':
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/plutotv.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/plutotv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+import uuid
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import (
+    compat_str,
+    compat_urlparse,
+)
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    float_or_none,
+    int_or_none,
+    try_get,
+    url_or_none,
+)
+
+
+class PlutoTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?pluto\.tv/on-demand/(?P<video_type>movies|series)/(?P<slug>.*)/?$'
+    _INFO_URL = 'https://service-vod.clusters.pluto.tv/v3/vod/slugs/'
+    _INFO_QUERY_PARAMS = {
+        'appName': 'web',
+        'appVersion': 'na',
+        'clientID': compat_str(uuid.uuid1()),
+        'clientModelNumber': 'na',
+        'serverSideAds': 'false',
+        'deviceMake': 'unknown',
+        'deviceModel': 'web',
+        'deviceType': 'web',
+        'deviceVersion': 'unknown',
+        'sid': compat_str(uuid.uuid1()),
+    }
+    _TESTS = [
+        {
+            'url': 'https://pluto.tv/on-demand/series/i-love-money/season/2/episode/its-in-the-cards-2009-2-3',
+            'md5': 'ebcdd8ed89aaace9df37924f722fd9bd',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '5de6c598e9379ae4912df0a8',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'It\'s In The Cards',
+                'episode': 'It\'s In The Cards',
+                'description': 'The teams face off against each other in a 3-on-2 soccer showdown.  Strategy comes into play, though, as each team gets to select their opposing teams’ two defenders.',
+                'series': 'I Love Money',
+                'season_number': 2,
+                'episode_number': 3,
+                'duration': 3600,
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            'url': 'https://pluto.tv/on-demand/series/i-love-money/season/1/',
+            'playlist_count': 11,
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '5de6c582e9379ae4912dedbd',
+                'title': 'I Love Money - Season 1',
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            'url': 'https://pluto.tv/on-demand/series/i-love-money/',
+            'playlist_count': 26,
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '5de6c582e9379ae4912dedbd',
+                'title': 'I Love Money',
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            'url': 'https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/arrival-2015-1-1',
+            'md5': '3cead001d317a018bf856a896dee1762',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '5e83ac701fa6a9001bb9df24',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'Arrival',
+                'description': 'When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - led by expert translator Louise Banks (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams) – races against time to decipher their intent.',
+                'duration': 9000,
+            }
+        },
+    ]
+
+    def _to_ad_free_formats(self, video_id, formats):
+        ad_free_formats = []
+        m3u8_urls = set()
+        for format in formats:
+            res = self._download_webpage(
+                format.get('url'), video_id, note='Downloading m3u8 playlist',
+                fatal=False)
+            if not res:
+                continue
+            first_segment_url = re.search(
+                r'^(https?://.*/)0\-(end|[0-9]+)/[^/]+\.ts$', res,
+                re.MULTILINE)
+            if not first_segment_url:
+                continue
+            m3u8_urls.add(
+                compat_urlparse.urljoin(first_segment_url.group(1), '0-end/master.m3u8'))
+
+        for m3u8_url in m3u8_urls:
+            ad_free_formats.extend(
+                self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    m3u8_url, video_id, 'mp4', 'm3u8_native',
+                    m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
+        self._sort_formats(ad_free_formats)
+        return ad_free_formats
+
+    def _get_video_info(self, video_json, slug, series_name=None):
+        video_id = video_json.get('_id', slug)
+        formats = []
+        for video_url in try_get(video_json, lambda x: x['stitched']['urls'], list) or []:
+            if video_url.get('type') != 'hls':
+                continue
+            url = url_or_none(video_url.get('url'))
+            formats.extend(
+                self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    url, video_id, 'mp4', 'm3u8_native',
+                    m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
+        info = {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'formats': self._to_ad_free_formats(video_id, formats),
+            'title': video_json.get('name'),
+            'description': video_json.get('description'),
+            'duration': float_or_none(video_json.get('duration'), scale=1000),
+        }
+        if series_name:
+            info.update({
+                'series': series_name,
+                'episode': video_json.get('name'),
+                'season_number': int_or_none(video_json.get('season')),
+                'episode_number': int_or_none(video_json.get('number')),
+            })
+        return info
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).path
+        path_components = path.split('/')
+        video_type = path_components[2]
+        info_slug = path_components[3]
+        video_json = self._download_json(self._INFO_URL + info_slug, info_slug,
+                                         query=self._INFO_QUERY_PARAMS)
+
+        if video_type == 'series':
+            series_name = video_json.get('name', info_slug)
+            season_number = int_or_none(try_get(path_components, lambda x: x[5]))
+            episode_slug = try_get(path_components, lambda x: x[7])
+
+            videos = []
+            for season in video_json['seasons']:
+                if season_number is not None and season_number != int_or_none(season.get('number')):
+                    continue
+                for episode in season['episodes']:
+                    if episode_slug is not None and episode_slug != episode.get('slug'):
+                        continue
+                    videos.append(self._get_video_info(episode, episode_slug, series_name))
+            if not videos:
+                raise ExtractorError('Failed to find any videos to extract')
+            if episode_slug is not None and len(videos) == 1:
+                return videos[0]
+            playlist_title = series_name
+            if season_number is not None:
+                playlist_title += ' - Season %d' % season_number
+            return self.playlist_result(videos,
+                                        playlist_id=video_json.get('_id', info_slug),
+                                        playlist_title=playlist_title)
+        return self._get_video_info(video_json, info_slug)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
        'params': {
            'skip_download': True,
        },
+        'skip': 'Video has been flagged for verification in accordance with our trust and safety policy',
    }, {
        # subtitles
        'url': 'https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5af5fef7c2aa7',
@@ -265,7 +266,8 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
        webpage = dl_webpage('pc')

        error_msg = self._html_search_regex(
-            r'(?s)<div[^>]+class=(["\'])(?:(?!\1).)*\b(?:removed|userMessageSection)\b(?:(?!\1).)*\1[^>]*>(?P<error>.+?)</div>',
+            (r'(?s)<div[^>]+class=(["\'])(?:(?!\1).)*\b(?:removed|userMessageSection)\b(?:(?!\1).)*\1[^>]*>(?P<error>.+?)</div>',
+             r'(?s)<section[^>]+class=["\']noVideo["\'][^>]*>(?P<error>.+?)</section>'),
            webpage, 'error message', default=None, group='error')
        if error_msg:
            error_msg = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', error_msg)
@@ -394,6 +396,21 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):

        upload_date = None
        formats = []
+
+        def add_format(format_url, height=None):
+            tbr = None
+            mobj = re.search(r'(?P<height>\d+)[pP]?_(?P<tbr>\d+)[kK]', format_url)
+            if mobj:
+                if not height:
+                    height = int(mobj.group('height'))
+                tbr = int(mobj.group('tbr'))
+            formats.append({
+                'url': format_url,
+                'format_id': '%dp' % height if height else None,
+                'height': height,
+                'tbr': tbr,
+            })
+
        for video_url, height in video_urls:
            if not upload_date:
                upload_date = self._search_regex(
@@ -410,18 +427,19 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
                    video_url, video_id, 'mp4', entry_protocol='m3u8_native',
                    m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
                continue
-            tbr = None
-            mobj = re.search(r'(?P<height>\d+)[pP]?_(?P<tbr>\d+)[kK]', video_url)
-            if mobj:
-                if not height:
-                    height = int(mobj.group('height'))
-                tbr = int(mobj.group('tbr'))
-            formats.append({
-                'url': video_url,
-                'format_id': '%dp' % height if height else None,
-                'height': height,
-                'tbr': tbr,
-            })
+            if '/video/get_media' in video_url:
+                medias = self._download_json(video_url, video_id, fatal=False)
+                if isinstance(medias, list):
+                    for media in medias:
+                        if not isinstance(media, dict):
+                            continue
+                        video_url = url_or_none(media.get('videoUrl'))
+                        if not video_url:
+                            continue
+                        height = int_or_none(media.get('quality'))
+                        add_format(video_url, height)
+                continue
+            add_format(video_url)
        self._sort_formats(formats)

        video_uploader = self._html_search_regex(
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/rai.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/rai.py
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ class RaiPlayIE(RaiBaseIE):
        # subtitles at 'subtitlesArray' key (see #27698)
        'url': 'https://www.raiplay.it/video/2020/12/Report---04-01-2021-2e90f1de-8eee-4de4-ac0e-78d21db5b600.html',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        # DRM protected
+        'url': 'https://www.raiplay.it/video/2020/09/Lo-straordinario-mondo-di-Zoey-S1E1-Lo-straordinario-potere-di-Zoey-ed493918-1d32-44b7-8454-862e473d00ff.html',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
@@ -166,6 +170,14 @@ class RaiPlayIE(RaiBaseIE):
        media = self._download_json(
            base + '.json', video_id, 'Downloading video JSON')

+        if not self._downloader.params.get('allow_unplayable_formats'):
+            if try_get(
+                    media,
+                    (lambda x: x['rights_management']['rights']['drm'],
+                     lambda x: x['program_info']['rights_management']['rights']['drm']),
+                    dict):
+                raise ExtractorError('This video is DRM protected.', expected=True)
+
        title = media['name']
        video = media['video']

--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/rcs.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/rcs.py
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ from ..utils import (


 class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    # based on VideoPlayerLoader.prototype.getVideoSrc
+    # and VideoPlayerLoader.prototype.transformSrc from
+    # https://js2.corriereobjects.it/includes2013/LIBS/js/corriere_video.sjs
    _ALL_REPLACE = {
        'media2vam.corriere.it.edgesuite.net':
            'media2vam-corriere-it.akamaized.net',
@@ -191,10 +194,10 @@ class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
            urls.get('m3u8'), video_id, 'mp4', entry_protocol='m3u8_native',
            m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False)

-        if not formats:
+        if urls.get('mp4'):
            formats.append({
                'format_id': 'http-mp4',
-                'url': urls.get('mp4')
+                'url': urls['mp4']
            })
        self._sort_formats(formats)
        return formats
@@ -216,10 +219,12 @@ class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
        video_data = None
        # look for json video data url
        json = self._search_regex(
-            r'''(?x)var url\s*=\s*["']((?:https?:)?
-                //video\.rcs\.it
-                /fragment-includes/video-includes/.+?\.json)["'];''',
-            page, video_id, default=None)
+            r'''(?x)url\s*=\s*(["'])
+            (?P<url>
+                (?:https?:)?//video\.rcs\.it
+                /fragment-includes/video-includes/.+?\.json
+            )\1;''',
+            page, video_id, group='url', default=None)
        if json:
            if json.startswith('//'):
                json = 'https:%s' % json
@@ -227,13 +232,16 @@ class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):

        # if json url not found, look for json video data directly in the page
        else:
+            # RCS normal pages and most of the embeds
            json = self._search_regex(
                r'[\s;]video\s*=\s*({[\s\S]+?})(?:;|,playlist=)',
                page, video_id, default=None)
-            if json:
-                video_data = self._parse_json(
-                    json, video_id, transform_source=js_to_json)
-            else:
+            if not json and 'video-embed' in url:
+                page = self._download_webpage(url.replace('video-embed', 'video-json'), video_id)
+                json = self._search_regex(
+                    r'##start-video##({[\s\S]+?})##end-video##',
+                    page, video_id, default=None)
+            if not json:
                # if no video data found try search for iframes
                emb = RCSEmbedsIE._extract_url(page)
                if emb:
@@ -242,6 +250,9 @@ class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
                        'url': emb,
                        'ie_key': RCSEmbedsIE.ie_key()
                    }
+            if json:
+                video_data = self._parse_json(
+                    json, video_id, transform_source=js_to_json)

        if not video_data:
            raise ExtractorError('Video data not found in the page')
@@ -250,7 +261,8 @@ class RCSBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
            self._get_video_src(video_data), video_id)

        description = (video_data.get('description')
-                       or clean_html(video_data.get('htmlDescription')))
+                       or clean_html(video_data.get('htmlDescription'))
+                       or self._html_search_meta('description', page))
        uploader = video_data.get('provider') or mobj.group('cdn')

        return {
@@ -283,6 +295,7 @@ class RCSEmbedsIE(RCSBaseIE):
            'uploader': 'rcs.it',
        }
    }, {
+        # redownload the page changing 'video-embed' in 'video-json'
        'url': 'https://video.gazzanet.gazzetta.it/video-embed/gazzanet-mo05-0000260789',
        'md5': 'a043e3fecbe4d9ed7fc5d888652a5440',
        'info_dict': {
@@ -359,6 +372,7 @@ class RCSIE(RCSBaseIE):
            'uploader': 'Corriere Tv',
        }
    }, {
+        # video data inside iframe
        'url': 'https://viaggi.corriere.it/video/norvegia-il-nuovo-ponte-spettacolare-sopra-la-cascata-di-voringsfossen/',
        'md5': 'da378e4918d2afbf7d61c35abb948d4c',
        'info_dict': {
@@ -389,15 +403,15 @@ class RCSVariousIE(RCSBaseIE):
                    (?P<cdn>
                        leitv\.it|
                        youreporter\.it
-                    )/(?:video/)?(?P<id>[^/]+?)(?:$|\?|/)'''
+                    )/(?:[^/]+/)?(?P<id>[^/]+?)(?:$|\?|/)'''
    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'https://www.leitv.it/video/marmellata-di-ciliegie-fatta-in-casa/',
-        'md5': '618aaabac32152199c1af86784d4d554',
+        'url': 'https://www.leitv.it/benessere/mal-di-testa-come-combatterlo-ed-evitarne-la-comparsa/',
+        'md5': '92b4e63667b8f95acb0a04da25ae28a1',
        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'marmellata-di-ciliegie-fatta-in-casa',
+            'id': 'mal-di-testa-come-combatterlo-ed-evitarne-la-comparsa',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Marmellata di ciliegie fatta in casa',
-            'description': 'md5:89133864d6aad456dbcf6e7a29f86263',
+            'title': 'Cervicalgia e mal di testa, il video con i suggerimenti dell\'esperto',
+            'description': 'md5:ae21418f34cee0b8d02a487f55bcabb5',
            'uploader': 'leitv.it',
        }
    }, {
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/rtve.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/rtve.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

 import base64
+import io
 import re
-import time
+import sys

 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..compat import (
@@ -14,56 +15,13 @@ from ..utils import (
    determine_ext,
    ExtractorError,
    float_or_none,
+    qualities,
    remove_end,
    remove_start,
-    sanitized_Request,
    std_headers,
 )

-
-def _decrypt_url(png):
-    encrypted_data = compat_b64decode(png)
-    text_index = encrypted_data.find(b'tEXt')
-    text_chunk = encrypted_data[text_index - 4:]
-    length = compat_struct_unpack('!I', text_chunk[:4])[0]
-    # Use bytearray to get integers when iterating in both python 2.x and 3.x
-    data = bytearray(text_chunk[8:8 + length])
-    data = [chr(b) for b in data if b != 0]
-    hash_index = data.index('#')
-    alphabet_data = data[:hash_index]
-    url_data = data[hash_index + 1:]
-    if url_data[0] == 'H' and url_data[3] == '%':
-        # remove useless HQ%% at the start
-        url_data = url_data[4:]
-
-    alphabet = []
-    e = 0
-    d = 0
-    for l in alphabet_data:
-        if d == 0:
-            alphabet.append(l)
-            d = e = (e + 1) % 4
-        else:
-            d -= 1
-    url = ''
-    f = 0
-    e = 3
-    b = 1
-    for letter in url_data:
-        if f == 0:
-            l = int(letter) * 10
-            f = 1
-        else:
-            if e == 0:
-                l += int(letter)
-                url += alphabet[l]
-                e = (b + 3) % 4
-                f = 0
-                b += 1
-            else:
-                e -= 1
-
-    return url
+_bytes_to_chr = (lambda x: x) if sys.version_info[0] == 2 else (lambda x: map(chr, x))


 class RTVEALaCartaIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -79,28 +37,31 @@ class RTVEALaCartaIE(InfoExtractor):
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'title': 'Balonmano - Swiss Cup masculina. Final: España-Suecia',
            'duration': 5024.566,
+            'series': 'Balonmano',
        },
+        'expected_warnings': ['Failed to download MPD manifest', 'Failed to download m3u8 information'],
    }, {
        'note': 'Live stream',
        'url': 'http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/television/24h-live/1694255/',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '1694255',
-            'ext': 'flv',
-            'title': 'TODO',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 're:^24H LIVE [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$',
+            'is_live': True,
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': 'live stream',
        },
-        'skip': 'The f4m manifest can\'t be used yet',
    }, {
        'url': 'http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/servir-y-proteger/servir-proteger-capitulo-104/4236788/',
-        'md5': 'e55e162379ad587e9640eda4f7353c0f',
+        'md5': 'd850f3c8731ea53952ebab489cf81cbf',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '4236788',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Servir y proteger - Capítulo 104 ',
+            'title': 'Servir y proteger - Capítulo 104',
            'duration': 3222.0,
        },
-        'params': {
-            'skip_download': True,  # requires ffmpeg
-        },
+        'expected_warnings': ['Failed to download MPD manifest', 'Failed to download m3u8 information'],
    }, {
        'url': 'http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/videos/cuentame-como-paso/cuentame-como-paso-t16-ultimo-minuto-nuestra-vida-capitulo-276/2969138/?media=tve',
        'only_matching': True,
@@ -111,58 +72,102 @@ class RTVEALaCartaIE(InfoExtractor):

    def _real_initialize(self):
        user_agent_b64 = base64.b64encode(std_headers['User-Agent'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
-        manager_info = self._download_json(
+        self._manager = self._download_json(
            'http://www.rtve.es/odin/loki/' + user_agent_b64,
-            None, 'Fetching manager info')
-        self._manager = manager_info['manager']
+            None, 'Fetching manager info')['manager']
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _decrypt_url(png):
+        encrypted_data = io.BytesIO(compat_b64decode(png)[8:])
+        while True:
+            length = compat_struct_unpack('!I', encrypted_data.read(4))[0]
+            chunk_type = encrypted_data.read(4)
+            if chunk_type == b'IEND':
+                break
+            data = encrypted_data.read(length)
+            if chunk_type == b'tEXt':
+                alphabet_data, text = data.split(b'\0')
+                quality, url_data = text.split(b'%%')
+                alphabet = []
+                e = 0
+                d = 0
+                for l in _bytes_to_chr(alphabet_data):
+                    if d == 0:
+                        alphabet.append(l)
+                        d = e = (e + 1) % 4
+                    else:
+                        d -= 1
+                url = ''
+                f = 0
+                e = 3
+                b = 1
+                for letter in _bytes_to_chr(url_data):
+                    if f == 0:
+                        l = int(letter) * 10
+                        f = 1
+                    else:
+                        if e == 0:
+                            l += int(letter)
+                            url += alphabet[l]
+                            e = (b + 3) % 4
+                            f = 0
+                            b += 1
+                        else:
+                            e -= 1
+
+                yield quality.decode(), url
+            encrypted_data.read(4)  # CRC
+
+    def _extract_png_formats(self, video_id):
+        png = self._download_webpage(
+            'http://www.rtve.es/ztnr/movil/thumbnail/%s/videos/%s.png' % (self._manager, video_id),
+            video_id, 'Downloading url information', query={'q': 'v2'})
+        q = qualities(['Media', 'Alta', 'HQ', 'HD_READY', 'HD_FULL'])
+        formats = []
+        for quality, video_url in self._decrypt_url(png):
+            ext = determine_ext(video_url)
+            if ext == 'm3u8':
+                formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    video_url, video_id, 'mp4', 'm3u8_native',
+                    m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
+            elif ext == 'mpd':
+                formats.extend(self._extract_mpd_formats(
+                    video_url, video_id, 'dash', fatal=False))
+            else:
+                formats.append({
+                    'format_id': quality,
+                    'quality': q(quality),
+                    'url': video_url,
+                })
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+        return formats

    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
        info = self._download_json(
            'http://www.rtve.es/api/videos/%s/config/alacarta_videos.json' % video_id,
            video_id)['page']['items'][0]
        if info['state'] == 'DESPU':
            raise ExtractorError('The video is no longer available', expected=True)
-        title = info['title']
-        png_url = 'http://www.rtve.es/ztnr/movil/thumbnail/%s/videos/%s.png' % (self._manager, video_id)
-        png_request = sanitized_Request(png_url)
-        png_request.add_header('Referer', url)
-        png = self._download_webpage(png_request, video_id, 'Downloading url information')
-        video_url = _decrypt_url(png)
-        ext = determine_ext(video_url)
-
-        formats = []
-        if not video_url.endswith('.f4m') and ext != 'm3u8':
-            if '?' not in video_url:
-                video_url = video_url.replace('resources/', 'auth/resources/')
-            video_url = video_url.replace('.net.rtve', '.multimedia.cdn.rtve')
-
-        if ext == 'm3u8':
-            formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
-                video_url, video_id, ext='mp4', entry_protocol='m3u8_native',
-                m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
-        elif ext == 'f4m':
-            formats.extend(self._extract_f4m_formats(
-                video_url, video_id, f4m_id='hds', fatal=False))
-        else:
-            formats.append({
-                'url': video_url,
-            })
-        self._sort_formats(formats)
+        title = info['title'].strip()
+        formats = self._extract_png_formats(video_id)

        subtitles = None
-        if info.get('sbtFile') is not None:
-            subtitles = self.extract_subtitles(video_id, info['sbtFile'])
+        sbt_file = info.get('sbtFile')
+        if sbt_file:
+            subtitles = self.extract_subtitles(video_id, sbt_file)
+
+        is_live = info.get('live') is True

        return {
            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
+            'title': self._live_title(title) if is_live else title,
            'formats': formats,
            'thumbnail': info.get('image'),
-            'page_url': url,
            'subtitles': subtitles,
-            'duration': float_or_none(info.get('duration'), scale=1000),
+            'duration': float_or_none(info.get('duration'), 1000),
+            'is_live': is_live,
+            'series': info.get('programTitle'),
        }

    def _get_subtitles(self, video_id, sub_file):
@@ -174,48 +179,26 @@ class RTVEALaCartaIE(InfoExtractor):
            for s in subs)


-class RTVEInfantilIE(InfoExtractor):
+class RTVEInfantilIE(RTVEALaCartaIE):
    IE_NAME = 'rtve.es:infantil'
    IE_DESC = 'RTVE infantil'
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?rtve\.es/infantil/serie/(?P<show>[^/]*)/video/(?P<short_title>[^/]*)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?rtve\.es/infantil/serie/[^/]+/video/[^/]+/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/'

    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'http://www.rtve.es/infantil/serie/cleo/video/maneras-vivir/3040283/',
-        'md5': '915319587b33720b8e0357caaa6617e6',
+        'md5': '5747454717aedf9f9fdf212d1bcfc48d',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': '3040283',
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'title': 'Maneras de vivir',
-            'thumbnail': 'http://www.rtve.es/resources/jpg/6/5/1426182947956.JPG',
+            'thumbnail': r're:https?://.+/1426182947956\.JPG',
            'duration': 357.958,
        },
+        'expected_warnings': ['Failed to download MPD manifest', 'Failed to download m3u8 information'],
    }]

-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        video_id = self._match_id(url)
-        info = self._download_json(
-            'http://www.rtve.es/api/videos/%s/config/alacarta_videos.json' % video_id,
-            video_id)['page']['items'][0]

-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        vidplayer_id = self._search_regex(
-            r' id="vidplayer([0-9]+)"', webpage, 'internal video ID')
-
-        png_url = 'http://www.rtve.es/ztnr/movil/thumbnail/default/videos/%s.png' % vidplayer_id
-        png = self._download_webpage(png_url, video_id, 'Downloading url information')
-        video_url = _decrypt_url(png)
-
-        return {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': info['title'],
-            'url': video_url,
-            'thumbnail': info.get('image'),
-            'duration': float_or_none(info.get('duration'), scale=1000),
-        }
-
-
-class RTVELiveIE(InfoExtractor):
+class RTVELiveIE(RTVEALaCartaIE):
    IE_NAME = 'rtve.es:live'
    IE_DESC = 'RTVE.es live streams'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?rtve\.es/directo/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)'
@@ -225,7 +208,7 @@ class RTVELiveIE(InfoExtractor):
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'la-1',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 're:^La 1 [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}Z[0-9]{6}$',
+            'title': 're:^La 1 [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$',
        },
        'params': {
            'skip_download': 'live stream',
@@ -234,29 +217,22 @@ class RTVELiveIE(InfoExtractor):

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        start_time = time.gmtime()
        video_id = mobj.group('id')

        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
        title = remove_end(self._og_search_title(webpage), ' en directo en RTVE.es')
        title = remove_start(title, 'Estoy viendo ')
-        title += ' ' + time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dZ%H%M%S', start_time)

        vidplayer_id = self._search_regex(
            (r'playerId=player([0-9]+)',
             r'class=["\'].*?\blive_mod\b.*?["\'][^>]+data-assetid=["\'](\d+)',
             r'data-id=["\'](\d+)'),
            webpage, 'internal video ID')
-        png_url = 'http://www.rtve.es/ztnr/movil/thumbnail/amonet/videos/%s.png' % vidplayer_id
-        png = self._download_webpage(png_url, video_id, 'Downloading url information')
-        m3u8_url = _decrypt_url(png)
-        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, video_id, ext='mp4')
-        self._sort_formats(formats)

        return {
            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'formats': formats,
+            'title': self._live_title(title),
+            'formats': self._extract_png_formats(vidplayer_id),
            'is_live': True,
        }

--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/shahid.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/shahid.py
@@ -51,13 +51,16 @@ class ShahidIE(ShahidBaseIE):
    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'shahid'
    _VALID_URL = r'https?://shahid\.mbc\.net/ar/(?:serie|show|movie)s/[^/]+/(?P<type>episode|clip|movie)-(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'https://shahid.mbc.net/ar/shows/%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85-1-%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8-1/clip-275286',
+        'url': 'https://shahid.mbc.net/ar/shows/%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85-1-%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8-1/clip-816924',
        'info_dict': {
-            'id': '275286',
+            'id': '816924',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'مجلس الشباب الموسم 1 كليب 1',
-            'timestamp': 1506988800,
-            'upload_date': '20171003',
+            'title': 'متحف الدحيح الموسم 1 كليب 1',
+            'timestamp': 1602806400,
+            'upload_date': '20201016',
+            'description': 'برومو',
+            'duration': 22,
+            'categories': ['كوميديا'],
        },
        'params': {
            # m3u8 download
@@ -109,12 +112,15 @@ class ShahidIE(ShahidBaseIE):
            page_type = 'episode'

        playout = self._call_api(
-            'playout/url/' + video_id, video_id)['playout']
+            'playout/new/url/' + video_id, video_id)['playout']

        if not self._downloader.params.get('allow_unplayable_formats') and playout.get('drm'):
            raise ExtractorError('This video is DRM protected.', expected=True)

-        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(playout['url'], video_id, 'mp4')
+        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(re.sub(
+            # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mediapackage/latest/ug/manifest-filtering.html
+            r'aws\.manifestfilter=[\w:;,-]+&?',
+            '', playout['url']), video_id, 'mp4')
        self._sort_formats(formats)

        # video = self._call_api(
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/southpark.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/southpark.py
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ from .mtv import MTVServicesInfoExtractor

 class SouthParkIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
    IE_NAME = 'southpark.cc.com'
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?(?P<url>southpark\.cc\.com/(?:clips|(?:full-)?episodes|collections)/(?P<id>.+?)(\?|#|$))'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?(?P<url>southpark(?:\.cc|studios)\.com/(?:clips|(?:full-)?episodes|collections)/(?P<id>.+?)(\?|#|$))'

-    _FEED_URL = 'http://www.southparkstudios.com/feeds/video-player/mrss'
+    _FEED_URL = 'http://feeds.mtvnservices.com/od/feed/intl-mrss-player-feed'

    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104437/bat-daded#tab=featured',
@@ -23,8 +23,20 @@ class SouthParkIE(MTVServicesInfoExtractor):
    }, {
        'url': 'http://southpark.cc.com/collections/7758/fan-favorites/1',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/h4o269/south-park-stunning-and-brave-season-19-ep-1',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]

+    def _get_feed_query(self, uri):
+        return {
+            'accountOverride': 'intl.mtvi.com',
+            'arcEp': 'shared.southpark.global',
+            'ep': '90877963',
+            'imageEp': 'shared.southpark.global',
+            'mgid': uri,
+        }
+

 class SouthParkEsIE(SouthParkIE):
    IE_NAME = 'southpark.cc.com:español'
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/sportdeutschland.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/sportdeutschland.py
@@ -1,82 +1,105 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

-import re
-
 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import (
+    compat_parse_qs,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+)
 from ..utils import (
+    clean_html,
+    float_or_none,
+    int_or_none,
    parse_iso8601,
-    sanitized_Request,
+    strip_or_none,
+    try_get,
 )


 class SportDeutschlandIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://sportdeutschland\.tv/(?P<sport>[^/?#]+)/(?P<id>[^?#/]+)(?:$|[?#])'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://sportdeutschland\.tv/(?P<id>(?:[^/]+/)?[^?#/&]+)'
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://sportdeutschland.tv/badminton/re-live-deutsche-meisterschaften-2020-halbfinals?playlistId=0',
        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 're-live-deutsche-meisterschaften-2020-halbfinals',
+            'id': '5318cac0275701382770543d7edaf0a0',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 're:Re-live: Deutsche Meisterschaften 2020.*Halbfinals',
-            'categories': ['Badminton-Deutschland'],
-            'view_count': int,
-            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.(?:jpg|png)$',
-            'timestamp': int,
-            'upload_date': '20200201',
-            'description': 're:.*',  # meaningless description for THIS video
+            'title': 'Re-live: Deutsche Meisterschaften 2020 - Halbfinals - Teil 1',
+            'duration': 16106.36,
        },
+        'params': {
+            'noplaylist': True,
+            # m3u8 download
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://sportdeutschland.tv/badminton/re-live-deutsche-meisterschaften-2020-halbfinals?playlistId=0',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'c6e2fdd01f63013854c47054d2ab776f',
+            'title': 'Re-live: Deutsche Meisterschaften 2020 - Halbfinals',
+            'description': 'md5:5263ff4c31c04bb780c9f91130b48530',
+            'duration': 31397,
+        },
+        'playlist_count': 2,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://sportdeutschland.tv/freeride-world-tour-2021-fieberbrunn-oesterreich',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        sport_id = mobj.group('sport')
-
-        api_url = 'https://proxy.vidibusdynamic.net/ssl/backend.sportdeutschland.tv/api/permalinks/%s/%s?access_token=true' % (
-            sport_id, video_id)
-        req = sanitized_Request(api_url, headers={
-            'Accept': 'application/vnd.vidibus.v2.html+json',
-            'Referer': url,
-        })
-        data = self._download_json(req, video_id)
-
+        display_id = self._match_id(url)
+        data = self._download_json(
+            'https://backend.sportdeutschland.tv/api/permalinks/' + display_id,
+            display_id, query={'access_token': 'true'})
        asset = data['asset']
-        categories = [data['section']['title']]
-
-        formats = []
-        smil_url = asset['video']
-        if '.smil' in smil_url:
-            m3u8_url = smil_url.replace('.smil', '.m3u8')
-            formats.extend(
-                self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, video_id, ext='mp4'))
-
-            smil_doc = self._download_xml(
-                smil_url, video_id, note='Downloading SMIL metadata')
-            base_url_el = smil_doc.find('./head/meta')
-            if base_url_el:
-                base_url = base_url_el.attrib['base']
-            formats.extend([{
-                'format_id': 'rmtp',
-                'url': base_url if base_url_el else n.attrib['src'],
-                'play_path': n.attrib['src'],
-                'ext': 'flv',
-                'preference': -100,
-                'format_note': 'Seems to fail at example stream',
-            } for n in smil_doc.findall('./body/video')])
-        else:
-            formats.append({'url': smil_url})
-
-        self._sort_formats(formats)
-
-        return {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'formats': formats,
-            'title': asset['title'],
-            'thumbnail': asset.get('image'),
-            'description': asset.get('teaser'),
-            'duration': asset.get('duration'),
-            'categories': categories,
-            'view_count': asset.get('views'),
-            'rtmp_live': asset.get('live'),
-            'timestamp': parse_iso8601(asset.get('date')),
+        title = (asset.get('title') or asset['label']).strip()
+        asset_id = asset.get('id') or asset.get('uuid')
+        info = {
+            'id': asset_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': clean_html(asset.get('body') or asset.get('description')) or asset.get('teaser'),
+            'duration': int_or_none(asset.get('seconds')),
        }
+        videos = asset.get('videos') or []
+        if len(videos) > 1:
+            playlist_id = compat_parse_qs(compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url).query).get('playlistId', [None])[0]
+            if playlist_id:
+                if self._downloader.params.get('noplaylist'):
+                    videos = [videos[int(playlist_id)]]
+                    self.to_screen('Downloading just a single video because of --no-playlist')
+                else:
+                    self.to_screen('Downloading playlist %s - add --no-playlist to just download video' % asset_id)
+
+            def entries():
+                for i, video in enumerate(videos, 1):
+                    video_id = video.get('uuid')
+                    video_url = video.get('url')
+                    if not (video_id and video_url):
+                        continue
+                    formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                        video_url.replace('.smil', '.m3u8'), video_id, 'mp4', fatal=False)
+                    if not formats:
+                        continue
+                    yield {
+                        'id': video_id,
+                        'formats': formats,
+                        'title': title + ' - ' + (video.get('label') or 'Teil %d' % i),
+                        'duration': float_or_none(video.get('duration')),
+                    }
+            info.update({
+                '_type': 'multi_video',
+                'entries': entries(),
+            })
+        else:
+            formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                videos[0]['url'].replace('.smil', '.m3u8'), asset_id, 'mp4')
+            section_title = strip_or_none(try_get(data, lambda x: x['section']['title']))
+            info.update({
+                'formats': formats,
+                'display_id': asset.get('permalink'),
+                'thumbnail': try_get(asset, lambda x: x['images'][0]),
+                'categories': [section_title] if section_title else None,
+                'view_count': int_or_none(asset.get('views')),
+                'is_live': asset.get('is_live') is True,
+                'timestamp': parse_iso8601(asset.get('date') or asset.get('published_at')),
+            })
+        return info
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/stitcher.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/stitcher.py
@@ -1,19 +1,61 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

-import re
-
 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import compat_str
 from ..utils import (
    clean_html,
+    clean_podcast_url,
    ExtractorError,
    int_or_none,
    str_or_none,
    try_get,
+    url_or_none,
 )


-class StitcherIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?stitcher\.com/(?:podcast|show)/(?:[^/]+/)+e(?:pisode)?/(?:(?P<display_id>[^/#?&]+?)-)?(?P<id>\d+)(?:[/#?&]|$)'
+class StitcherBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL_BASE = r'https?://(?:www\.)?stitcher\.com/(?:podcast|show)/'
+
+    def _call_api(self, path, video_id, query):
+        resp = self._download_json(
+            'https://api.prod.stitcher.com/' + path,
+            video_id, query=query)
+        error_massage = try_get(resp, lambda x: x['errors'][0]['message'])
+        if error_massage:
+            raise ExtractorError(error_massage, expected=True)
+        return resp['data']
+
+    def _extract_description(self, data):
+        return clean_html(data.get('html_description') or data.get('description'))
+
+    def _extract_audio_url(self, episode):
+        return url_or_none(episode.get('audio_url') or episode.get('guid'))
+
+    def _extract_show_info(self, show):
+        return {
+            'thumbnail': show.get('image_base_url'),
+            'series': show.get('title'),
+        }
+
+    def _extract_episode(self, episode, audio_url, show_info):
+        info = {
+            'id': compat_str(episode['id']),
+            'display_id': episode.get('slug'),
+            'title': episode['title'].strip(),
+            'description': self._extract_description(episode),
+            'duration': int_or_none(episode.get('duration')),
+            'url': clean_podcast_url(audio_url),
+            'vcodec': 'none',
+            'timestamp': int_or_none(episode.get('date_published')),
+            'season_number': int_or_none(episode.get('season')),
+            'season_id': str_or_none(episode.get('season_id')),
+        }
+        info.update(show_info)
+        return info
+
+
+class StitcherIE(StitcherBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = StitcherBaseIE._VALID_URL_BASE + r'(?:[^/]+/)+e(?:pisode)?/(?:[^/#?&]+-)?(?P<id>\d+)'
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-talking-machines/e/40789481?autoplay=true',
        'md5': 'e9635098e0da10b21a0e2b85585530f6',
@@ -24,8 +66,9 @@ class StitcherIE(InfoExtractor):
            'description': 'md5:547adb4081864be114ae3831b4c2b42f',
            'duration': 1604,
            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg',
-            'upload_date': '20180126',
-            'timestamp': 1516989316,
+            'upload_date': '20151008',
+            'timestamp': 1444285800,
+            'series': 'Talking Machines',
        },
    }, {
        'url': 'http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/vulture-tv/e/the-rare-hourlong-comedy-plus-40846275?autoplay=true',
@@ -55,33 +98,47 @@ class StitcherIE(InfoExtractor):
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        display_id, audio_id = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).groups()
+        audio_id = self._match_id(url)
+        data = self._call_api(
+            'shows/episodes', audio_id, {'episode_ids': audio_id})
+        episode = data['episodes'][0]
+        audio_url = self._extract_audio_url(episode)
+        if not audio_url:
+            self.raise_login_required()
+        show = try_get(data, lambda x: x['shows'][0], dict) or {}
+        return self._extract_episode(
+            episode, audio_url, self._extract_show_info(show))

-        resp = self._download_json(
-            'https://api.prod.stitcher.com/episode/' + audio_id,
-            display_id or audio_id)
-        episode = try_get(resp, lambda x: x['data']['episodes'][0], dict)
-        if not episode:
-            raise ExtractorError(resp['errors'][0]['message'], expected=True)

-        title = episode['title'].strip()
-        audio_url = episode['audio_url']
+class StitcherShowIE(StitcherBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = StitcherBaseIE._VALID_URL_BASE + r'(?P<id>[^/#?&]+)/?(?:[?#&]|$)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-talking-machines',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'the-talking-machines',
+            'title': 'Talking Machines',
+            'description': 'md5:831f0995e40f26c10231af39cf1ebf0b',
+        },
+        'playlist_mincount': 106,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-talking-machines',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }]

-        thumbnail = None
-        show_id = episode.get('show_id')
-        if show_id and episode.get('classic_id') != -1:
-            thumbnail = 'https://stitcher-classic.imgix.net/feedimages/%s.jpg' % show_id
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        show_slug = self._match_id(url)
+        data = self._call_api(
+            'search/show/%s/allEpisodes' % show_slug, show_slug, {'count': 10000})
+        show = try_get(data, lambda x: x['shows'][0], dict) or {}
+        show_info = self._extract_show_info(show)

-        return {
-            'id': audio_id,
-            'display_id': display_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'description': clean_html(episode.get('html_description') or episode.get('description')),
-            'duration': int_or_none(episode.get('duration')),
-            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
-            'url': audio_url,
-            'vcodec': 'none',
-            'timestamp': int_or_none(episode.get('date_created')),
-            'season_number': int_or_none(episode.get('season')),
-            'season_id': str_or_none(episode.get('season_id')),
-        }
+        entries = []
+        for episode in (data.get('episodes') or []):
+            audio_url = self._extract_audio_url(episode)
+            if not audio_url:
+                continue
+            entries.append(self._extract_episode(episode, audio_url, show_info))
+
+        return self.playlist_result(
+            entries, show_slug, show.get('title'),
+            self._extract_description(show))
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/svt.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/svt.py
@@ -146,18 +146,19 @@ class SVTPlayIE(SVTPlayBaseIE):
                        )
                        (?P<svt_id>[^/?#&]+)|
                        https?://(?:www\.)?(?:svtplay|oppetarkiv)\.se/(?:video|klipp|kanaler)/(?P<id>[^/?#&]+)
+                        (?:.*?modalId=(?P<modal_id>[\da-zA-Z-]+))?
                    )
                    '''
    _TESTS = [{
-        'url': 'https://www.svtplay.se/video/26194546/det-har-ar-himlen',
+        'url': 'https://www.svtplay.se/video/30479064',
        'md5': '2382036fd6f8c994856c323fe51c426e',
        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'jNwpV9P',
+            'id': '8zVbDPA',
            'ext': 'mp4',
-            'title': 'Det här är himlen',
-            'timestamp': 1586044800,
-            'upload_date': '20200405',
-            'duration': 3515,
+            'title': 'Designdrömmar i Stenungsund',
+            'timestamp': 1615770000,
+            'upload_date': '20210315',
+            'duration': 3519,
            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://(?:.*[\.-]jpg|www.svtstatic.se/image/.*)$',
            'age_limit': 0,
            'subtitles': {
@@ -173,6 +174,9 @@ class SVTPlayIE(SVTPlayBaseIE):
            # AssertionError: Expected test_SVTPlay_jNwpV9P.mp4 to be at least 9.77KiB, but it's only 864.00B
            'skip_download': True,
        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.svtplay.se/video/30479064/husdrommar/husdrommar-sasong-8-designdrommar-i-stenungsund?modalId=8zVbDPA',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }, {
        # geo restricted to Sweden
        'url': 'http://www.oppetarkiv.se/video/5219710/trollflojten',
@@ -219,7 +223,8 @@ class SVTPlayIE(SVTPlayBaseIE):

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id, svt_id = mobj.group('id', 'svt_id')
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        svt_id = mobj.group('svt_id') or mobj.group('modal_id')

        if svt_id:
            return self._extract_by_video_id(svt_id)
@@ -254,6 +259,7 @@ class SVTPlayIE(SVTPlayBaseIE):
        if not svt_id:
            svt_id = self._search_regex(
                (r'<video[^>]+data-video-id=["\']([\da-zA-Z-]+)',
+                 r'<[^>]+\bdata-rt=["\']top-area-play-button["\'][^>]+\bhref=["\'][^"\']*video/%s/[^"\']*\bmodalId=([\da-zA-Z-]+)' % re.escape(video_id),
                 r'["\']videoSvtId["\']\s*:\s*["\']([\da-zA-Z-]+)',
                 r'["\']videoSvtId\\?["\']\s*:\s*\\?["\']([\da-zA-Z-]+)',
                 r'"content"\s*:\s*{.*?"id"\s*:\s*"([\da-zA-Z-]+)"',
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/trovo.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/trovo.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from ..utils import (

 class TrovoBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
    _VALID_URL_BASE = r'https?://(?:www\.)?trovo\.live/'
+    _HEADERS = {'Origin': 'https://trovo.live'}

    def _extract_streamer_info(self, data):
        streamer_info = data.get('streamerInfo') or {}
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ class TrovoIE(TrovoBaseIE):
                'format_id': format_id,
                'height': int_or_none(format_id[:-1]) if format_id else None,
                'url': play_url,
+                'http_headers': self._HEADERS,
            })
        self._sort_formats(formats)

@@ -153,6 +155,7 @@ class TrovoVodIE(TrovoBaseIE):
                'protocol': 'm3u8_native',
                'tbr': int_or_none(play_info.get('bitrate')),
                'url': play_url,
+                'http_headers': self._HEADERS,
            })
        self._sort_formats(formats)

--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/tver.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/tver.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from ..utils import (
    int_or_none,
    remove_start,
    smuggle_url,
+    strip_or_none,
    try_get,
 )

@@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ class TVerIE(InfoExtractor):
    }, {
        'url': 'https://tver.jp/episode/79622438',
        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        # subtitle = ' '
+        'url': 'https://tver.jp/corner/f0068870',
+        'only_matching': True,
    }]
    _TOKEN = None
    BRIGHTCOVE_URL_TEMPLATE = 'http://players.brightcove.net/%s/default_default/index.html?videoId=%s'
@@ -47,8 +52,12 @@ class TVerIE(InfoExtractor):
        }

        if service == 'cx':
+            title = main['title']
+            subtitle = strip_or_none(main.get('subtitle'))
+            if subtitle:
+                title += ' - ' + subtitle
            info.update({
-                'title': main.get('subtitle') or main['title'],
+                'title': title,
                'url': 'https://i.fod.fujitv.co.jp/plus7/web/%s/%s.html' % (p_id[:4], p_id),
                'ie_key': 'FujiTVFODPlus7',
            })
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/vimeo.py
@@ -498,6 +498,24 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
            'url': 'https://vimeo.com/album/2632481/video/79010983',
            'only_matching': True,
        },
+        {
+            'url': 'https://vimeo.com/showcase/3253534/video/119195465',
+            'note': 'A video in a password protected album (showcase)',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '119195465',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'youtube-dl test video \'ä"BaW_jenozKc',
+                'uploader': 'Philipp Hagemeister',
+                'uploader_id': 'user20132939',
+                'description': 'md5:fa7b6c6d8db0bdc353893df2f111855b',
+                'upload_date': '20150209',
+                'timestamp': 1423518307,
+            },
+            'params': {
+                'format': 'best[protocol=https]',
+                'videopassword': 'youtube-dl',
+            },
+        },
        {
            # source file returns 403: Forbidden
            'url': 'https://vimeo.com/7809605',
@@ -564,6 +582,44 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
    def _real_initialize(self):
        self._login()

+    def _try_album_password(self, url):
+        album_id = self._search_regex(
+            r'vimeo\.com/(?:album|showcase)/([^/]+)', url, 'album id', default=None)
+        if not album_id:
+            return
+        viewer = self._download_json(
+            'https://vimeo.com/_rv/viewer', album_id, fatal=False)
+        if not viewer:
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, album_id)
+            viewer = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
+                r'bootstrap_data\s*=\s*({.+?})</script>',
+                webpage, 'bootstrap data'), album_id)['viewer']
+        jwt = viewer['jwt']
+        album = self._download_json(
+            'https://api.vimeo.com/albums/' + album_id,
+            album_id, headers={'Authorization': 'jwt ' + jwt},
+            query={'fields': 'description,name,privacy'})
+        if try_get(album, lambda x: x['privacy']['view']) == 'password':
+            password = self._downloader.params.get('videopassword')
+            if not password:
+                raise ExtractorError(
+                    'This album is protected by a password, use the --video-password option',
+                    expected=True)
+            self._set_vimeo_cookie('vuid', viewer['vuid'])
+            try:
+                self._download_json(
+                    'https://vimeo.com/showcase/%s/auth' % album_id,
+                    album_id, 'Verifying the password', data=urlencode_postdata({
+                        'password': password,
+                        'token': viewer['xsrft'],
+                    }), headers={
+                        'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
+                    })
+            except ExtractorError as e:
+                if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError) and e.cause.code == 401:
+                    raise ExtractorError('Wrong password', expected=True)
+                raise
+
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        url, data = unsmuggle_url(url, {})
        headers = std_headers.copy()
@@ -591,6 +647,7 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
        elif any(p in url for p in ('play_redirect_hls', 'moogaloop.swf')):
            url = 'https://vimeo.com/' + video_id

+        self._try_album_password(url)
        try:
            # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
            webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(
@@ -934,11 +991,15 @@ class VimeoAlbumIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
        }
        if hashed_pass:
            query['_hashed_pass'] = hashed_pass
-        videos = self._download_json(
-            'https://api.vimeo.com/albums/%s/videos' % album_id,
-            album_id, 'Downloading page %d' % api_page, query=query, headers={
-                'Authorization': 'jwt ' + authorization,
-            })['data']
+        try:
+            videos = self._download_json(
+                'https://api.vimeo.com/albums/%s/videos' % album_id,
+                album_id, 'Downloading page %d' % api_page, query=query, headers={
+                    'Authorization': 'jwt ' + authorization,
+                })['data']
+        except ExtractorError as e:
+            if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError) and e.cause.code == 400:
+                return
        for video in videos:
            link = video.get('link')
            if not link:
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/voxmedia.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/voxmedia.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ from ..compat import compat_urllib_parse_unquote
 from ..utils import (
    ExtractorError,
    int_or_none,
+    try_get,
+    unified_timestamp,
 )


@@ -19,14 +21,17 @@ class VoxMediaVolumeIE(OnceIE):

        setup = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
            r'setup\s*=\s*({.+});', webpage, 'setup'), video_id)
-        video_data = setup.get('video') or {}
+        player_setup = setup.get('player_setup') or setup
+        video_data = player_setup.get('video') or {}
+        formatted_metadata = video_data.get('formatted_metadata') or {}
        info = {
            'id': video_id,
-            'title': video_data.get('title_short'),
+            'title': player_setup.get('title') or video_data.get('title_short'),
            'description': video_data.get('description_long') or video_data.get('description_short'),
-            'thumbnail': video_data.get('brightcove_thumbnail')
+            'thumbnail': formatted_metadata.get('thumbnail') or video_data.get('brightcove_thumbnail'),
+            'timestamp': unified_timestamp(formatted_metadata.get('video_publish_date')),
        }
-        asset = setup.get('asset') or setup.get('params') or {}
+        asset = try_get(setup, lambda x: x['embed_assets']['chorus'], dict) or {}

        formats = []
        hls_url = asset.get('hls_url')
@@ -47,6 +52,7 @@ class VoxMediaVolumeIE(OnceIE):
        if formats:
            self._sort_formats(formats)
            info['formats'] = formats
+            info['duration'] = int_or_none(asset.get('duration'))
            return info

        for provider_video_type in ('ooyala', 'youtube', 'brightcove'):
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ class VoxMediaIE(InfoExtractor):
    }, {
        # Volume embed, Youtube
        'url': 'http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7025853/google-nexus-6-hands-on-photos-video-android-phablet',
-        'md5': '4c8f4a0937752b437c3ebc0ed24802b5',
+        'md5': 'fd19aa0cf3a0eea515d4fd5c8c0e9d68',
        'info_dict': {
            'id': 'Gy8Md3Eky38',
            'ext': 'mp4',
@@ -93,6 +99,7 @@ class VoxMediaIE(InfoExtractor):
            'uploader_id': 'TheVerge',
            'upload_date': '20141021',
            'uploader': 'The Verge',
+            'timestamp': 1413907200,
        },
        'add_ie': ['Youtube'],
        'skip': 'similar to the previous test',
@@ -100,13 +107,13 @@ class VoxMediaIE(InfoExtractor):
        # Volume embed, Youtube
        'url': 'http://www.vox.com/2016/3/31/11336640/mississippi-lgbt-religious-freedom-bill',
        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'YCjDnX-Xzhg',
+            'id': '22986359b',
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'title': "Mississippi's laws are so bad that its anti-LGBTQ law isn't needed to allow discrimination",
            'description': 'md5:fc1317922057de31cd74bce91eb1c66c',
-            'uploader_id': 'voxdotcom',
            'upload_date': '20150915',
-            'uploader': 'Vox',
+            'timestamp': 1442332800,
+            'duration': 285,
        },
        'add_ie': ['Youtube'],
        'skip': 'similar to the previous test',
@@ -160,6 +167,9 @@ class VoxMediaIE(InfoExtractor):
            'ext': 'mp4',
            'title': 'Post-Post-PC CEO: The Full Code Conference Video of Microsoft\'s Satya Nadella',
            'description': 'The longtime veteran was chosen earlier this year as the software giant\'s third leader in its history.',
+            'timestamp': 1402938000,
+            'upload_date': '20140616',
+            'duration': 4114,
        },
        'add_ie': ['VoxMediaVolume'],
    }]
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/vvvvid.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/vvvvid.py
@@ -182,17 +182,20 @@ class VVVVIDIE(InfoExtractor):
            if not embed_code:
                continue
            embed_code = ds(embed_code)
-            if video_type in ('video/rcs', 'video/kenc'):
-                if video_type == 'video/kenc':
-                    kenc = self._download_json(
-                        'https://www.vvvvid.it/kenc', video_id, query={
-                            'action': 'kt',
-                            'conn_id': self._conn_id,
-                            'url': embed_code,
-                        }, fatal=False) or {}
-                    kenc_message = kenc.get('message')
-                    if kenc_message:
-                        embed_code += '?' + ds(kenc_message)
+            if video_type == 'video/kenc':
+                embed_code = re.sub(r'https?(://[^/]+)/z/', r'https\1/i/', embed_code).replace('/manifest.f4m', '/master.m3u8')
+                kenc = self._download_json(
+                    'https://www.vvvvid.it/kenc', video_id, query={
+                        'action': 'kt',
+                        'conn_id': self._conn_id,
+                        'url': embed_code,
+                    }, fatal=False) or {}
+                kenc_message = kenc.get('message')
+                if kenc_message:
+                    embed_code += '?' + ds(kenc_message)
+                formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                    embed_code, video_id, 'mp4', m3u8_id='hls', fatal=False))
+            elif video_type == 'video/rcs':
                formats.extend(self._extract_akamai_formats(embed_code, video_id))
            elif video_type == 'video/youtube':
                info.update({
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/wimtv.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/wimtv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    determine_ext,
+    parse_duration,
+    urlencode_postdata,
+    ExtractorError,
+)
+
+
+class WimTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _player = None
+    _UUID_RE = r'[\da-f]{8}-[\da-f]{4}-[\da-f]{4}-[\da-f]{4}-[\da-f]{12}'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+        https?://platform.wim.tv/
+        (?:
+            (?:embed/)?\?
+            |\#/webtv/.+?/
+        )
+        (?P<type>vod|live|cast)[=/]
+        (?P<id>%s).*?''' % _UUID_RE
+    _TESTS = [{
+        # vod stream
+        'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/embed/?vod=db29fb32-bade-47b6-a3a6-cb69fe80267a',
+        'md5': 'db29fb32-bade-47b6-a3a6-cb69fe80267a',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'db29fb32-bade-47b6-a3a6-cb69fe80267a',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'AMA SUPERCROSS 2020 - R2 ST. LOUIS',
+            'duration': 6481,
+            'thumbnail': r're:https?://.+?/thumbnail/.+?/720$'
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }, {
+        # live stream
+        'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/embed/?live=28e22c22-49db-40f3-8c37-8cbb0ff44556&autostart=true',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '28e22c22-49db-40f3-8c37-8cbb0ff44556',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Streaming MSmotorTV',
+            'is_live': True,
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/#/webtv/automotornews/vod/422492b6-539e-474d-9c6b-68c9d5893365',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/#/webtv/renzoarborechannel/cast/f47e0d15-5b45-455e-bf0d-dba8ffa96365',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_urls(webpage):
+        return [
+            mobj.group('url')
+            for mobj in re.finditer(
+                r'<iframe[^>]+src=["\'](?P<url>%s)' % WimTVIE._VALID_URL,
+                webpage)]
+
+    def _real_initialize(self):
+        if not self._player:
+            self._get_player_data()
+
+    def _get_player_data(self):
+        msg_id = 'Player data'
+        self._player = {}
+
+        datas = [{
+            'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/common/libs/player/wimtv/wim-rest.js',
+            'vars': [{
+                'regex': r'appAuth = "(.+?)"',
+                'variable': 'app_auth',
+            }]
+        }, {
+            'url': 'https://platform.wim.tv/common/config/endpointconfig.js',
+            'vars': [{
+                'regex': r'PRODUCTION_HOSTNAME_THUMB = "(.+?)"',
+                'variable': 'thumb_server',
+            }, {
+                'regex': r'PRODUCTION_HOSTNAME_THUMB\s*\+\s*"(.+?)"',
+                'variable': 'thumb_server_path',
+            }]
+        }]
+
+        for data in datas:
+            temp = self._download_webpage(data['url'], msg_id)
+            for var in data['vars']:
+                val = self._search_regex(var['regex'], temp, msg_id)
+                if not val:
+                    raise ExtractorError('%s not found' % var['variable'])
+                self._player[var['variable']] = val
+
+    def _generate_token(self):
+        json = self._download_json(
+            'https://platform.wim.tv/wimtv-server/oauth/token', 'Token generation',
+            headers={'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % self._player['app_auth']},
+            data=urlencode_postdata({'grant_type': 'client_credentials'}))
+        token = json.get('access_token')
+        if not token:
+            raise ExtractorError('access token not generated')
+        return token
+
+    def _generate_thumbnail(self, thumb_id, width='720'):
+        if not thumb_id or not self._player.get('thumb_server'):
+            return None
+        if not self._player.get('thumb_server_path'):
+            self._player['thumb_server_path'] = ''
+        return '%s%s/asset/thumbnail/%s/%s' % (
+            self._player['thumb_server'],
+            self._player['thumb_server_path'],
+            thumb_id, width)
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        urlc = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).groupdict()
+        video_id = urlc['id']
+        stream_type = is_live = None
+        if urlc['type'] in {'live', 'cast'}:
+            stream_type = urlc['type'] + '/channel'
+            is_live = True
+        else:
+            stream_type = 'vod'
+            is_live = False
+        token = self._generate_token()
+        json = self._download_json(
+            'https://platform.wim.tv/wimtv-server/api/public/%s/%s/play' % (
+                stream_type, video_id), video_id,
+            headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token,
+                     'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
+            data=bytes('{}', 'utf-8'))
+
+        formats = []
+        for src in json.get('srcs') or []:
+            if src.get('mimeType') == 'application/x-mpegurl':
+                formats.extend(
+                    self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+                        src.get('uniqueStreamer'), video_id, 'mp4'))
+            if src.get('mimeType') == 'video/flash':
+                formats.append({
+                    'format_id': 'rtmp',
+                    'url': src.get('uniqueStreamer'),
+                    'ext': determine_ext(src.get('uniqueStreamer'), 'flv'),
+                    'rtmp_live': is_live,
+                })
+        json = json.get('resource')
+        thumb = self._generate_thumbnail(json.get('thumbnailId'))
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': json.get('title') or json.get('name'),
+            'duration': parse_duration(json.get('duration')),
+            'formats': formats,
+            'thumbnail': thumb,
+            'is_live': is_live,
+        }
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ from ..compat import (
 )
 from ..jsinterp import JSInterpreter
 from ..utils import (
+    bool_or_none,
    clean_html,
+    dict_get,
    ExtractorError,
    format_field,
    float_or_none,
@@ -59,9 +61,9 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
    _TFA_URL = 'https://accounts.google.com/_/signin/challenge?hl=en&TL={0}'

    _RESERVED_NAMES = (
-        r'embed|e|watch_popup|channel|c|user|playlist|watch|w|v|movies|results|shared|hashtag|'
-        r'storefront|oops|index|account|reporthistory|t/terms|about|upload|signin|logout|'
-        r'feed/(?:watch_later|history|subscriptions|library|trending|recommended)')
+        r'channel|c|user|playlist|watch|w|v|embed|e|watch_popup|'
+        r'movies|results|shared|hashtag|trending|feed|feeds|'
+        r'storefront|oops|index|account|reporthistory|t/terms|about|upload|signin|logout')

    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'youtube'
    # If True it will raise an error if no login info is provided
@@ -271,15 +273,21 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        if not self._login():
            return

+    _YT_WEB_CLIENT_VERSION = '2.20210301.08.00'
    _DEFAULT_API_DATA = {
        'context': {
            'client': {
                'clientName': 'WEB',
-                'clientVersion': '2.20210301.08.00',
+                'clientVersion': _YT_WEB_CLIENT_VERSION,
            }
        },
    }

+    _DEFAULT_BASIC_API_HEADERS = {
+        'X-YouTube-Client-Name': '1',
+        'X-YouTube-Client-Version': _YT_WEB_CLIENT_VERSION
+    }
+
    _YT_INITIAL_DATA_RE = r'(?:window\s*\[\s*["\']ytInitialData["\']\s*\]|ytInitialData)\s*=\s*({.+?})\s*;'
    _YT_INITIAL_PLAYER_RESPONSE_RE = r'ytInitialPlayerResponse\s*=\s*({.+?})\s*;'
    _YT_INITIAL_BOUNDARY_RE = r'(?:var\s+meta|</script|\n)'
@@ -301,7 +309,6 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
        auth = self._generate_sapisidhash_header()
        if auth is not None:
            headers.update({'Authorization': auth, 'X-Origin': 'https://www.youtube.com'})
-
        return self._download_json(
            'https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/%s' % ep,
            video_id=video_id, fatal=fatal, note=note, errnote=errnote,
@@ -315,6 +322,27 @@ class YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
                 self._YT_INITIAL_DATA_RE), webpage, 'yt initial data'),
            video_id)

+    def _extract_identity_token(self, webpage, item_id):
+        ytcfg = self._extract_ytcfg(item_id, webpage)
+        if ytcfg:
+            token = try_get(ytcfg, lambda x: x['ID_TOKEN'], compat_str)
+            if token:
+                return token
+        return self._search_regex(
+            r'\bID_TOKEN["\']\s*:\s*["\'](.+?)["\']', webpage,
+            'identity token', default=None)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_account_syncid(data):
+        """Extract syncId required to download private playlists of secondary channels"""
+        sync_ids = (
+            try_get(data, lambda x: x['responseContext']['mainAppWebResponseContext']['datasyncId'], compat_str)
+            or '').split("||")
+        if len(sync_ids) >= 2 and sync_ids[1]:
+            # datasyncid is of the form "channel_syncid||user_syncid" for secondary channel
+            # and just "user_syncid||" for primary channel. We only want the channel_syncid
+            return sync_ids[0]
+
    def _extract_ytcfg(self, video_id, webpage):
        return self._parse_json(
            self._search_regex(
@@ -1462,6 +1490,270 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            (r'%s\s*%s' % (regex, self._YT_INITIAL_BOUNDARY_RE),
             regex), webpage, name, default='{}'), video_id, fatal=False)

+    @staticmethod
+    def _join_text_entries(runs):
+        text = None
+        for run in runs:
+            if not isinstance(run, dict):
+                continue
+            sub_text = try_get(run, lambda x: x['text'], compat_str)
+            if sub_text:
+                if not text:
+                    text = sub_text
+                    continue
+                text += sub_text
+        return text
+
+    def _extract_comment(self, comment_renderer, parent=None):
+        comment_id = comment_renderer.get('commentId')
+        if not comment_id:
+            return
+        comment_text_runs = try_get(comment_renderer, lambda x: x['contentText']['runs']) or []
+        text = self._join_text_entries(comment_text_runs) or ''
+        comment_time_text = try_get(comment_renderer, lambda x: x['publishedTimeText']['runs']) or []
+        time_text = self._join_text_entries(comment_time_text)
+
+        author = try_get(comment_renderer, lambda x: x['authorText']['simpleText'], compat_str)
+        author_id = try_get(comment_renderer,
+                            lambda x: x['authorEndpoint']['browseEndpoint']['browseId'], compat_str)
+        votes = str_to_int(try_get(comment_renderer, (lambda x: x['voteCount']['simpleText'],
+                                                      lambda x: x['likeCount']), compat_str)) or 0
+        author_thumbnail = try_get(comment_renderer,
+                                   lambda x: x['authorThumbnail']['thumbnails'][-1]['url'], compat_str)
+
+        author_is_uploader = try_get(comment_renderer, lambda x: x['authorIsChannelOwner'], bool)
+        is_liked = try_get(comment_renderer, lambda x: x['isLiked'], bool)
+
+        return {
+            'id': comment_id,
+            'text': text,
+            # TODO: This should be parsed to timestamp
+            'time_text': time_text,
+            'like_count': votes,
+            'is_favorited': is_liked,
+            'author': author,
+            'author_id': author_id,
+            'author_thumbnail': author_thumbnail,
+            'author_is_uploader': author_is_uploader,
+            'parent': parent or 'root'
+        }
+
+    def _comment_entries(self, root_continuation_data, identity_token, account_syncid,
+                         session_token_list, parent=None, comment_counts=None):
+
+        def extract_thread(parent_renderer):
+            contents = try_get(parent_renderer, lambda x: x['contents'], list) or []
+            if not parent:
+                comment_counts[2] = 0
+            for content in contents:
+                comment_thread_renderer = try_get(content, lambda x: x['commentThreadRenderer'])
+                comment_renderer = try_get(
+                    comment_thread_renderer, (lambda x: x['comment']['commentRenderer'], dict)) or try_get(
+                    content, (lambda x: x['commentRenderer'], dict))
+
+                if not comment_renderer:
+                    continue
+                comment = self._extract_comment(comment_renderer, parent)
+                if not comment:
+                    continue
+                comment_counts[0] += 1
+                yield comment
+                # Attempt to get the replies
+                comment_replies_renderer = try_get(
+                    comment_thread_renderer, lambda x: x['replies']['commentRepliesRenderer'], dict)
+
+                if comment_replies_renderer:
+                    comment_counts[2] += 1
+                    comment_entries_iter = self._comment_entries(
+                        comment_replies_renderer, identity_token, account_syncid,
+                        parent=comment.get('id'), session_token_list=session_token_list,
+                        comment_counts=comment_counts)
+
+                    for reply_comment in comment_entries_iter:
+                        yield reply_comment
+
+        if not comment_counts:
+            # comment so far, est. total comments, current comment thread #
+            comment_counts = [0, 0, 0]
+        headers = self._DEFAULT_BASIC_API_HEADERS.copy()
+
+        # TODO: Generalize the download code with TabIE
+        if identity_token:
+            headers['x-youtube-identity-token'] = identity_token
+
+        if account_syncid:
+            headers['X-Goog-PageId'] = account_syncid
+            headers['X-Goog-AuthUser'] = 0
+
+        continuation = YoutubeTabIE._extract_continuation(root_continuation_data)  # TODO
+        first_continuation = False
+        if parent is None:
+            first_continuation = True
+
+        for page_num in itertools.count(0):
+            if not continuation:
+                break
+            retries = self._downloader.params.get('extractor_retries', 3)
+            count = -1
+            last_error = None
+
+            while count < retries:
+                count += 1
+                if last_error:
+                    self.report_warning('%s. Retrying ...' % last_error)
+                try:
+                    query = {
+                        'ctoken': continuation['ctoken'],
+                        'pbj': 1,
+                        'type': 'next',
+                    }
+                    if parent:
+                        query['action_get_comment_replies'] = 1
+                    else:
+                        query['action_get_comments'] = 1
+
+                    comment_prog_str = '(%d/%d)' % (comment_counts[0], comment_counts[1])
+                    if page_num == 0:
+                        if first_continuation:
+                            note_prefix = "Downloading initial comment continuation page"
+                        else:
+                            note_prefix = "    Downloading comment reply thread %d %s" % (comment_counts[2], comment_prog_str)
+                    else:
+                        note_prefix = "%sDownloading comment%s page %d %s" % (
+                            "       " if parent else "",
+                            ' replies' if parent else '',
+                            page_num,
+                            comment_prog_str)
+
+                    browse = self._download_json(
+                        'https://www.youtube.com/comment_service_ajax', None,
+                        '%s %s' % (note_prefix, '(retry #%d)' % count if count else ''),
+                        headers=headers, query=query,
+                        data=urlencode_postdata({
+                            'session_token': session_token_list[0]
+                        }))
+                except ExtractorError as e:
+                    if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError) and e.cause.code in (500, 503, 404, 413):
+                        if e.cause.code == 413:
+                            self.report_warning("Assumed end of comments (received HTTP Error 413)")
+                            return
+                        # Downloading page may result in intermittent 5xx HTTP error
+                        # Sometimes a 404 is also recieved. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28289
+                        last_error = 'HTTP Error %s' % e.cause.code
+                        if e.cause.code == 404:
+                            last_error = last_error + " (this API is probably deprecated)"
+                        if count < retries:
+                            continue
+                    raise
+                else:
+                    session_token = try_get(browse, lambda x: x['xsrf_token'], compat_str)
+                    if session_token:
+                        session_token_list[0] = session_token
+
+                    response = try_get(browse,
+                                       (lambda x: x['response'],
+                                        lambda x: x[1]['response'])) or {}
+
+                    if response.get('continuationContents'):
+                        break
+
+                    # YouTube sometimes gives reload: now json if something went wrong (e.g. bad auth)
+                    if browse.get('reload'):
+                        raise ExtractorError("Invalid or missing params in continuation request", expected=False)
+
+                    # TODO: not tested, merged from old extractor
+                    err_msg = browse.get('externalErrorMessage')
+                    if err_msg:
+                        raise ExtractorError('YouTube said: %s' % err_msg, expected=False)
+
+                    # Youtube sometimes sends incomplete data
+                    # See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28194
+                    last_error = 'Incomplete data received'
+                    if count >= retries:
+                        self._downloader.report_error(last_error)
+
+            if not response:
+                break
+
+            known_continuation_renderers = {
+                'itemSectionContinuation': extract_thread,
+                'commentRepliesContinuation': extract_thread
+            }
+
+            # extract next root continuation from the results
+            continuation_contents = try_get(
+                response, lambda x: x['continuationContents'], dict) or {}
+
+            for key, value in continuation_contents.items():
+                if key not in known_continuation_renderers:
+                    continue
+                continuation_renderer = value
+
+                if first_continuation:
+                    first_continuation = False
+                    expected_comment_count = try_get(
+                        continuation_renderer,
+                        (lambda x: x['header']['commentsHeaderRenderer']['countText']['runs'][0]['text'],
+                         lambda x: x['header']['commentsHeaderRenderer']['commentsCount']['runs'][0]['text']),
+                        compat_str)
+
+                    if expected_comment_count:
+                        comment_counts[1] = str_to_int(expected_comment_count)
+                        self.to_screen("Downloading ~%d comments" % str_to_int(expected_comment_count))
+                        yield comment_counts[1]
+
+                    # TODO: cli arg.
+                    # 1/True for newest, 0/False for popular (default)
+                    comment_sort_index = int(True)
+                    sort_continuation_renderer = try_get(
+                        continuation_renderer,
+                        lambda x: x['header']['commentsHeaderRenderer']['sortMenu']['sortFilterSubMenuRenderer']['subMenuItems']
+                        [comment_sort_index]['continuation']['reloadContinuationData'], dict)
+                    # If this fails, the initial continuation page
+                    # starts off with popular anyways.
+                    if sort_continuation_renderer:
+                        continuation = YoutubeTabIE._build_continuation_query(
+                            continuation=sort_continuation_renderer.get('continuation'),
+                            ctp=sort_continuation_renderer.get('clickTrackingParams'))
+                        self.to_screen("Sorting comments by %s" % ('popular' if comment_sort_index == 0 else 'newest'))
+                        break
+
+                for entry in known_continuation_renderers[key](continuation_renderer):
+                    yield entry
+
+                continuation = YoutubeTabIE._extract_continuation(continuation_renderer)  # TODO
+                break
+
+    def _extract_comments(self, ytcfg, video_id, contents, webpage, xsrf_token):
+        """Entry for comment extraction"""
+        comments = []
+        known_entry_comment_renderers = (
+            'itemSectionRenderer',
+        )
+        estimated_total = 0
+        for entry in contents:
+            for key, renderer in entry.items():
+                if key not in known_entry_comment_renderers:
+                    continue
+
+                comment_iter = self._comment_entries(
+                    renderer,
+                    identity_token=self._extract_identity_token(webpage, item_id=video_id),
+                    account_syncid=self._extract_account_syncid(ytcfg),
+                    session_token_list=[xsrf_token])
+
+                for comment in comment_iter:
+                    if isinstance(comment, int):
+                        estimated_total = comment
+                        continue
+                    comments.append(comment)
+                break
+        self.to_screen("Downloaded %d/%d comments" % (len(comments), estimated_total))
+        return {
+            'comments': comments,
+            'comment_count': len(comments),
+        }
+
    def _real_extract(self, url):
        url, smuggled_data = unsmuggle_url(url, {})
        video_id = self._match_id(url)
@@ -1775,7 +2067,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            'tags': keywords,
            'is_live': is_live,
            'playable_in_embed': playability_status.get('playableInEmbed'),
-            'was_live': video_details.get('isLiveContent')
+            'was_live': video_details.get('isLiveContent'),
        }

        pctr = try_get(
@@ -1992,6 +2284,30 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            if v:
                info[d_k] = v

+        is_private = bool_or_none(video_details.get('isPrivate'))
+        is_unlisted = bool_or_none(microformat.get('isUnlisted'))
+        is_membersonly = None
+        if initial_data and is_private is not None:
+            is_membersonly = False
+            contents = try_get(initial_data, lambda x: x['contents']['twoColumnWatchNextResults']['results']['results']['contents'], list)
+            for content in contents or []:
+                badges = try_get(content, lambda x: x['videoPrimaryInfoRenderer']['badges'], list)
+                for badge in badges or []:
+                    label = try_get(badge, lambda x: x['metadataBadgeRenderer']['label']) or ''
+                    if label.lower() == 'members only':
+                        is_membersonly = True
+                        break
+                if is_membersonly:
+                    break
+
+        # TODO: Add this for playlists
+        info['availability'] = self._availability(
+            is_private=is_private,
+            needs_premium=False,  # Youtube no longer have premium-only videos?
+            needs_subscription=is_membersonly,
+            needs_auth=info['age_limit'] >= 18,
+            is_unlisted=None if is_private is None else is_unlisted)
+
        # get xsrf for annotations or comments
        get_annotations = self._downloader.params.get('writeannotations', False)
        get_comments = self._downloader.params.get('getcomments', False)
@@ -2024,156 +2340,8 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                    errnote='Unable to download video annotations', fatal=False,
                    data=urlencode_postdata({xsrf_field_name: xsrf_token}))

-        # Get comments
-        # TODO: Refactor and move to seperate function
-        def extract_comments():
-            expected_video_comment_count = 0
-            video_comments = []
-            comment_xsrf = xsrf_token
-
-            def find_value(html, key, num_chars=2, separator='"'):
-                pos_begin = html.find(key) + len(key) + num_chars
-                pos_end = html.find(separator, pos_begin)
-                return html[pos_begin: pos_end]
-
-            def search_dict(partial, key):
-                if isinstance(partial, dict):
-                    for k, v in partial.items():
-                        if k == key:
-                            yield v
-                        else:
-                            for o in search_dict(v, key):
-                                yield o
-                elif isinstance(partial, list):
-                    for i in partial:
-                        for o in search_dict(i, key):
-                            yield o
-
-            continuations = []
-            if initial_data:
-                try:
-                    ncd = next(search_dict(initial_data, 'nextContinuationData'))
-                    continuations = [ncd['continuation']]
-                # Handle videos where comments have been disabled entirely
-                except StopIteration:
-                    pass
-
-            def get_continuation(continuation, session_token, replies=False):
-                query = {
-                    'pbj': 1,
-                    'ctoken': continuation,
-                }
-                if replies:
-                    query['action_get_comment_replies'] = 1
-                else:
-                    query['action_get_comments'] = 1
-
-                while True:
-                    content, handle = self._download_webpage_handle(
-                        'https://www.youtube.com/comment_service_ajax',
-                        video_id,
-                        note=False,
-                        expected_status=[413],
-                        data=urlencode_postdata({
-                            'session_token': session_token
-                        }),
-                        query=query,
-                        headers={
-                            'Accept': '*/*',
-                            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0',
-                            'X-YouTube-Client-Name': '1',
-                            'X-YouTube-Client-Version': '2.20201202.06.01'
-                        }
-                    )
-
-                    response_code = handle.getcode()
-                    if (response_code == 200):
-                        return self._parse_json(content, video_id)
-                    if (response_code == 413):
-                        return None
-                    raise ExtractorError('Unexpected HTTP error code: %s' % response_code)
-
-            first_continuation = True
-            chain_msg = ''
-            self.to_screen('Downloading comments')
-            while continuations:
-                continuation = continuations.pop()
-                comment_response = get_continuation(continuation, comment_xsrf)
-                if not comment_response:
-                    continue
-                if list(search_dict(comment_response, 'externalErrorMessage')):
-                    raise ExtractorError('Error returned from server: ' + next(search_dict(comment_response, 'externalErrorMessage')))
-
-                if 'continuationContents' not in comment_response['response']:
-                    # Something is wrong here. Youtube won't accept this continuation token for some reason and responds with a user satisfaction dialog (error?)
-                    continue
-                # not sure if this actually helps
-                if 'xsrf_token' in comment_response:
-                    comment_xsrf = comment_response['xsrf_token']
-
-                item_section = comment_response['response']['continuationContents']['itemSectionContinuation']
-                if first_continuation:
-                    expected_video_comment_count = int(item_section['header']['commentsHeaderRenderer']['countText']['runs'][0]['text'].replace(' Comments', '').replace('1 Comment', '1').replace(',', ''))
-                    first_continuation = False
-                if 'contents' not in item_section:
-                    # continuation returned no comments?
-                    # set an empty array as to not break the for loop
-                    item_section['contents'] = []
-
-                for meta_comment in item_section['contents']:
-                    comment = meta_comment['commentThreadRenderer']['comment']['commentRenderer']
-                    video_comments.append({
-                        'id': comment['commentId'],
-                        'text': ''.join([c['text'] for c in try_get(comment, lambda x: x['contentText']['runs'], list) or []]),
-                        'time_text': ''.join([c['text'] for c in comment['publishedTimeText']['runs']]),
-                        'author': comment.get('authorText', {}).get('simpleText', ''),
-                        'votes': comment.get('voteCount', {}).get('simpleText', '0'),
-                        'author_thumbnail': comment['authorThumbnail']['thumbnails'][-1]['url'],
-                        'parent': 'root'
-                    })
-                    if 'replies' not in meta_comment['commentThreadRenderer']:
-                        continue
-
-                    reply_continuations = [rcn['nextContinuationData']['continuation'] for rcn in meta_comment['commentThreadRenderer']['replies']['commentRepliesRenderer']['continuations']]
-                    while reply_continuations:
-                        time.sleep(1)
-                        continuation = reply_continuations.pop()
-                        replies_data = get_continuation(continuation, comment_xsrf, True)
-                        if not replies_data or 'continuationContents' not in replies_data[1]['response']:
-                            continue
-
-                        if self._downloader.params.get('verbose', False):
-                            chain_msg = ' (chain %s)' % comment['commentId']
-                        self.to_screen('Comments downloaded: %d of ~%d%s' % (len(video_comments), expected_video_comment_count, chain_msg))
-                        reply_comment_meta = replies_data[1]['response']['continuationContents']['commentRepliesContinuation']
-                        for reply_meta in reply_comment_meta.get('contents', {}):
-                            reply_comment = reply_meta['commentRenderer']
-                            video_comments.append({
-                                'id': reply_comment['commentId'],
-                                'text': ''.join([c['text'] for c in reply_comment['contentText']['runs']]),
-                                'time_text': ''.join([c['text'] for c in reply_comment['publishedTimeText']['runs']]),
-                                'author': reply_comment.get('authorText', {}).get('simpleText', ''),
-                                'votes': reply_comment.get('voteCount', {}).get('simpleText', '0'),
-                                'author_thumbnail': reply_comment['authorThumbnail']['thumbnails'][-1]['url'],
-                                'parent': comment['commentId']
-                            })
-                        if 'continuations' not in reply_comment_meta or len(reply_comment_meta['continuations']) == 0:
-                            continue
-                        reply_continuations += [rcn['nextContinuationData']['continuation'] for rcn in reply_comment_meta['continuations']]
-
-                self.to_screen('Comments downloaded: %d of ~%d' % (len(video_comments), expected_video_comment_count))
-                if 'continuations' in item_section:
-                    continuations += [ncd['nextContinuationData']['continuation'] for ncd in item_section['continuations']]
-                time.sleep(1)
-
-            self.to_screen('Total comments downloaded: %d of ~%d' % (len(video_comments), expected_video_comment_count))
-            return {
-                'comments': video_comments,
-                'comment_count': expected_video_comment_count
-            }
-
        if get_comments:
-            info['__post_extractor'] = extract_comments
+            info['__post_extractor'] = lambda: self._extract_comments(ytcfg, video_id, contents, webpage, xsrf_token)

        self.mark_watched(video_id, player_response)

@@ -2520,17 +2688,22 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            channel_url, 'channel id')

    @staticmethod
-    def _extract_grid_item_renderer(item):
-        for item_kind in ('Playlist', 'Video', 'Channel'):
-            renderer = item.get('grid%sRenderer' % item_kind)
-            if renderer:
-                return renderer
+    def _extract_basic_item_renderer(item):
+        # Modified from _extract_grid_item_renderer
+        known_renderers = (
+            'playlistRenderer', 'videoRenderer', 'channelRenderer',
+            'gridPlaylistRenderer', 'gridVideoRenderer', 'gridChannelRenderer'
+        )
+        for key, renderer in item.items():
+            if key not in known_renderers:
+                continue
+            return renderer

    def _grid_entries(self, grid_renderer):
        for item in grid_renderer['items']:
            if not isinstance(item, dict):
                continue
-            renderer = self._extract_grid_item_renderer(item)
+            renderer = self._extract_basic_item_renderer(item)
            if not isinstance(renderer, dict):
                continue
            title = try_get(
@@ -2559,7 +2732,7 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        content = shelf_renderer.get('content')
        if not isinstance(content, dict):
            return
-        renderer = content.get('gridRenderer')
+        renderer = content.get('gridRenderer') or content.get('expandedShelfContentsRenderer')
        if renderer:
            # TODO: add support for nested playlists so each shelf is processed
            # as separate playlist
@@ -2601,20 +2774,6 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                continue
            yield self._extract_video(renderer)

-    r""" # Not needed in the new implementation
-    def _itemSection_entries(self, item_sect_renderer):
-        for content in item_sect_renderer['contents']:
-            if not isinstance(content, dict):
-                continue
-            renderer = content.get('videoRenderer', {})
-            if not isinstance(renderer, dict):
-                continue
-            video_id = renderer.get('videoId')
-            if not video_id:
-                continue
-            yield self._extract_video(renderer)
-    """
-
    def _rich_entries(self, rich_grid_renderer):
        renderer = try_get(
            rich_grid_renderer, lambda x: x['content']['videoRenderer'], dict) or {}
@@ -2713,7 +2872,7 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            ctp = continuation_ep.get('clickTrackingParams')
            return YoutubeTabIE._build_continuation_query(continuation, ctp)

-    def _entries(self, tab, identity_token, item_id):
+    def _entries(self, tab, item_id, identity_token, account_syncid):

        def extract_entries(parent_renderer):  # this needs to called again for continuation to work with feeds
            contents = try_get(parent_renderer, lambda x: x['contents'], list) or []
@@ -2773,6 +2932,10 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
        if identity_token:
            headers['x-youtube-identity-token'] = identity_token

+        if account_syncid:
+            headers['X-Goog-PageId'] = account_syncid
+            headers['X-Goog-AuthUser'] = 0
+
        for page_num in itertools.count(1):
            if not continuation:
                break
@@ -2803,9 +2966,14 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                else:
                    # Youtube sometimes sends incomplete data
                    # See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28194
-                    if response.get('continuationContents') or response.get('onResponseReceivedActions'):
+                    if dict_get(response,
+                                ('continuationContents', 'onResponseReceivedActions', 'onResponseReceivedEndpoints')):
                        break
-                    last_error = 'Incomplete data recieved'
+
+                    # Youtube may send alerts if there was an issue with the continuation page
+                    self._extract_alerts(response, expected=False)
+
+                    last_error = 'Incomplete data received'
                    if count >= retries:
                        self._downloader.report_error(last_error)

@@ -2837,11 +3005,13 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                'gridPlaylistRenderer': (self._grid_entries, 'items'),
                'gridVideoRenderer': (self._grid_entries, 'items'),
                'playlistVideoRenderer': (self._playlist_entries, 'contents'),
-                'itemSectionRenderer': (self._playlist_entries, 'contents'),
+                'itemSectionRenderer': (extract_entries, 'contents'),  # for feeds
                'richItemRenderer': (extract_entries, 'contents'),  # for hashtag
+                'backstagePostThreadRenderer': (self._post_thread_continuation_entries, 'contents')
            }
            continuation_items = try_get(
-                response, lambda x: x['onResponseReceivedActions'][0]['appendContinuationItemsAction']['continuationItems'], list)
+                response,
+                lambda x: dict_get(x, ('onResponseReceivedActions', 'onResponseReceivedEndpoints'))[0]['appendContinuationItemsAction']['continuationItems'], list)
            continuation_item = try_get(continuation_items, lambda x: x[0], dict) or {}
            video_items_renderer = None
            for key, value in continuation_item.items():
@@ -2888,7 +3058,7 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                        try_get(owner, lambda x: x['navigationEndpoint']['browseEndpoint']['canonicalBaseUrl'], compat_str))
        return {k: v for k, v in uploader.items() if v is not None}

-    def _extract_from_tabs(self, item_id, webpage, data, tabs, identity_token):
+    def _extract_from_tabs(self, item_id, webpage, data, tabs):
        playlist_id = title = description = channel_url = channel_name = channel_id = None
        thumbnails_list = tags = []

@@ -2952,16 +3122,41 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            'channel_id': metadata['uploader_id'],
            'channel_url': metadata['uploader_url']})
        return self.playlist_result(
-            self._entries(selected_tab, identity_token, playlist_id),
+            self._entries(
+                selected_tab, playlist_id,
+                self._extract_identity_token(webpage, item_id),
+                self._extract_account_syncid(data)),
            **metadata)

+    def _extract_mix_playlist(self, playlist, playlist_id):
+        first_id = last_id = None
+        for page_num in itertools.count(1):
+            videos = list(self._playlist_entries(playlist))
+            if not videos:
+                return
+            start = next((i for i, v in enumerate(videos) if v['id'] == last_id), -1) + 1
+            if start >= len(videos):
+                return
+            for video in videos[start:]:
+                if video['id'] == first_id:
+                    self.to_screen('First video %s found again; Assuming end of Mix' % first_id)
+                    return
+                yield video
+            first_id = first_id or videos[0]['id']
+            last_id = videos[-1]['id']
+
+            _, data = self._extract_webpage(
+                'https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=%s&v=%s' % (playlist_id, last_id),
+                '%s page %d' % (playlist_id, page_num))
+            playlist = try_get(
+                data, lambda x: x['contents']['twoColumnWatchNextResults']['playlist']['playlist'], dict)
+
    def _extract_from_playlist(self, item_id, url, data, playlist):
        title = playlist.get('title') or try_get(
            data, lambda x: x['titleText']['simpleText'], compat_str)
        playlist_id = playlist.get('playlistId') or item_id
-        # Inline playlist rendition continuation does not always work
-        # at Youtube side, so delegating regular tab-based playlist URL
-        # processing whenever possible.
+
+        # Delegating everything except mix playlists to regular tab-based playlist URL
        playlist_url = urljoin(url, try_get(
            playlist, lambda x: x['endpoint']['commandMetadata']['webCommandMetadata']['url'],
            compat_str))
@@ -2969,67 +3164,42 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
            return self.url_result(
                playlist_url, ie=YoutubeTabIE.ie_key(), video_id=playlist_id,
                video_title=title)
-        return self.playlist_result(
-            self._playlist_entries(playlist), playlist_id=playlist_id,
-            playlist_title=title)

-    @staticmethod
-    def _extract_alerts(data):
-        for alert_dict in try_get(data, lambda x: x['alerts'], list) or []:
-            if not isinstance(alert_dict, dict):
-                continue
-            for renderer in alert_dict:
-                alert = alert_dict[renderer]
-                alert_type = alert.get('type')
-                if not alert_type:
+        return self.playlist_result(
+            self._extract_mix_playlist(playlist, playlist_id),
+            playlist_id=playlist_id, playlist_title=title)
+
+    def _extract_alerts(self, data, expected=False):
+
+        def _real_extract_alerts():
+            for alert_dict in try_get(data, lambda x: x['alerts'], list) or []:
+                if not isinstance(alert_dict, dict):
                    continue
-                message = try_get(alert, lambda x: x['text']['simpleText'], compat_str)
-                if message:
-                    yield alert_type, message
-                for run in try_get(alert, lambda x: x['text']['runs'], list) or []:
-                    message = try_get(run, lambda x: x['text'], compat_str)
+                for alert in alert_dict.values():
+                    alert_type = alert.get('type')
+                    if not alert_type:
+                        continue
+                    message = try_get(alert, lambda x: x['text']['simpleText'], compat_str)
                    if message:
                        yield alert_type, message
+                    for run in try_get(alert, lambda x: x['text']['runs'], list) or []:
+                        message = try_get(run, lambda x: x['text'], compat_str)
+                        if message:
+                            yield alert_type, message

-    def _extract_identity_token(self, webpage, item_id):
-        ytcfg = self._extract_ytcfg(item_id, webpage)
-        if ytcfg:
-            token = try_get(ytcfg, lambda x: x['ID_TOKEN'], compat_str)
-            if token:
-                return token
-        return self._search_regex(
-            r'\bID_TOKEN["\']\s*:\s*["\'](.+?)["\']', webpage,
-            'identity token', default=None)
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        item_id = self._match_id(url)
-        url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
-            compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)._replace(netloc='www.youtube.com'))
-        is_home = re.match(r'(?P<pre>%s)(?P<post>/?(?![^#?]).*$)' % self._VALID_URL, url)
-        if is_home is not None and is_home.group('not_channel') is None and item_id != 'feed':
-            self._downloader.report_warning(
-                'A channel/user page was given. All the channel\'s videos will be downloaded. '
-                'To download only the videos in the home page, add a "/featured" to the URL')
-            url = '%s/videos%s' % (is_home.group('pre'), is_home.group('post') or '')
-
-        # Handle both video/playlist URLs
-        qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).query)
-        video_id = qs.get('v', [None])[0]
-        playlist_id = qs.get('list', [None])[0]
-
-        if is_home is not None and is_home.group('not_channel') is not None and is_home.group('not_channel').startswith('watch') and not video_id:
-            if playlist_id:
-                self._downloader.report_warning('%s is not a valid Youtube URL. Trying to download playlist %s' % (url, playlist_id))
-                url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=%s' % playlist_id
-                # return self.url_result(playlist_id, ie=YoutubePlaylistIE.ie_key())
+        err_msg = None
+        for alert_type, alert_message in _real_extract_alerts():
+            if alert_type.lower() == 'error':
+                if err_msg:
+                    self._downloader.report_warning('YouTube said: %s - %s' % ('ERROR', err_msg))
+                err_msg = alert_message
            else:
-                raise ExtractorError('Unable to recognize tab page')
-        if video_id and playlist_id:
-            if self._downloader.params.get('noplaylist'):
-                self.to_screen('Downloading just video %s because of --no-playlist' % video_id)
-                return self.url_result(video_id, ie=YoutubeIE.ie_key(), video_id=video_id)
-            self.to_screen('Downloading playlist %s - add --no-playlist to just download video %s' % (playlist_id, video_id))
+                self._downloader.report_warning('YouTube said: %s - %s' % (alert_type, alert_message))

+        if err_msg:
+            raise ExtractorError('YouTube said: %s' % err_msg, expected=expected)
+
+    def _extract_webpage(self, url, item_id):
        retries = self._downloader.params.get('extractor_retries', 3)
        count = -1
        last_error = 'Incomplete yt initial data recieved'
@@ -3041,40 +3211,67 @@ class YoutubeTabIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
                self.report_warning('%s. Retrying ...' % last_error)
            webpage = self._download_webpage(
                url, item_id,
-                'Downloading webpage%s' % ' (retry #%d)' % count if count else '')
-            identity_token = self._extract_identity_token(webpage, item_id)
+                'Downloading webpage%s' % (' (retry #%d)' % count if count else ''))
            data = self._extract_yt_initial_data(item_id, webpage)
-            err_msg = None
-            for alert_type, alert_message in self._extract_alerts(data):
-                if alert_type.lower() == 'error':
-                    if err_msg:
-                        self._downloader.report_warning('YouTube said: %s - %s' % ('ERROR', err_msg))
-                    err_msg = alert_message
-                else:
-                    self._downloader.report_warning('YouTube said: %s - %s' % (alert_type, alert_message))
-            if err_msg:
-                raise ExtractorError('YouTube said: %s' % err_msg, expected=True)
+            self._extract_alerts(data, expected=True)
            if data.get('contents') or data.get('currentVideoEndpoint'):
                break
            if count >= retries:
                self._downloader.report_error(last_error)
+        return webpage, data
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        item_id = self._match_id(url)
+        url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
+            compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)._replace(netloc='www.youtube.com'))
+
+        # This is not matched in a channel page with a tab selected
+        mobj = re.match(r'(?P<pre>%s)(?P<post>/?(?![^#?]).*$)' % self._VALID_URL, url)
+        mobj = mobj.groupdict() if mobj else {}
+        if mobj and not mobj.get('not_channel'):
+            self._downloader.report_warning(
+                'A channel/user page was given. All the channel\'s videos will be downloaded. '
+                'To download only the videos in the home page, add a "/featured" to the URL')
+            url = '%s/videos%s' % (mobj.get('pre'), mobj.get('post') or '')
+
+        # Handle both video/playlist URLs
+        qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).query)
+        video_id = qs.get('v', [None])[0]
+        playlist_id = qs.get('list', [None])[0]
+
+        if not video_id and (mobj.get('not_channel') or '').startswith('watch'):
+            if not playlist_id:
+                # If there is neither video or playlist ids,
+                # youtube redirects to home page, which is undesirable
+                raise ExtractorError('Unable to recognize tab page')
+            self._downloader.report_warning('A video URL was given without video ID. Trying to download playlist %s' % playlist_id)
+            url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=%s' % playlist_id
+
+        if video_id and playlist_id:
+            if self._downloader.params.get('noplaylist'):
+                self.to_screen('Downloading just video %s because of --no-playlist' % video_id)
+                return self.url_result(video_id, ie=YoutubeIE.ie_key(), video_id=video_id)
+            self.to_screen('Downloading playlist %s; add --no-playlist to just download video %s' % (playlist_id, video_id))
+
+        webpage, data = self._extract_webpage(url, item_id)

        tabs = try_get(
            data, lambda x: x['contents']['twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer']['tabs'], list)
        if tabs:
-            return self._extract_from_tabs(item_id, webpage, data, tabs, identity_token)
+            return self._extract_from_tabs(item_id, webpage, data, tabs)
+
        playlist = try_get(
            data, lambda x: x['contents']['twoColumnWatchNextResults']['playlist']['playlist'], dict)
        if playlist:
            return self._extract_from_playlist(item_id, url, data, playlist)
-        # Fallback to video extraction if no playlist alike page is recognized.
-        # First check for the current video then try the v attribute of URL query.
+
        video_id = try_get(
            data, lambda x: x['currentVideoEndpoint']['watchEndpoint']['videoId'],
            compat_str) or video_id
        if video_id:
+            self._downloader.report_warning('Unable to recognize playlist. Downloading just video %s' % video_id)
            return self.url_result(video_id, ie=YoutubeIE.ie_key(), video_id=video_id)
-        # Failed to recognize
+
        raise ExtractorError('Unable to recognize tab page')


@@ -3338,7 +3535,6 @@ class YoutubeFeedsInfoExtractor(YoutubeTabIE):
    Subclasses must define the _FEED_NAME property.
    """
    _LOGIN_REQUIRED = True
-    # _MAX_PAGES = 5
    _TESTS = []

    @property
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/zee5.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/zee5.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import re

 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import compat_str
 from ..utils import (
    int_or_none,
    parse_age_limit,
@@ -16,24 +17,34 @@ from ..utils import (


 class Zee5IE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?zee5\.com/[^#?]*/(?P<display_id>[-\w]+)/(?P<id>[-\d]+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+                     (?:
+                        zee5:|
+                        (?:https?://)(?:www\.)?zee5\.com/(?:[^#?]+/)?
+                        (?:
+                            (?:tvshows|kids|zee5originals)(?:/[^#/?]+){3}
+                            |movies/[^#/?]+
+                        )/(?P<display_id>[^#/?]+)/
+                     )
+                     (?P<id>[^#/?]+)/?(?:$|[?#])
+                     '''
    _TESTS = [{
        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/movies/details/krishna-the-birth/0-0-63098',
        'info_dict': {
-            "id": "0-0-63098",
-            "ext": "m3u8",
-            "display_id": "krishna-the-birth",
-            "title": "Krishna - The Birth",
-            "duration": 4368,
-            "average_rating": 4,
-            "description": str,
-            "alt_title": "Krishna - The Birth",
-            "uploader": "Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd",
-            "release_date": "20060101",
-            "upload_date": "20060101",
-            "timestamp": 1136073600,
-            "thumbnail": "https://akamaividz.zee5.com/resources/0-0-63098/list/270x152/0063098_list_80888170.jpg",
-            "tags": list
+            'id': '0-0-63098',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'display_id': 'krishna-the-birth',
+            'title': 'Krishna - The Birth',
+            'duration': 4368,
+            'average_rating': 4,
+            'description': str,
+            'alt_title': 'Krishna - The Birth',
+            'uploader': 'Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd',
+            'release_date': '20060101',
+            'upload_date': '20060101',
+            'timestamp': 1136073600,
+            'thumbnail': 'https://akamaividz.zee5.com/resources/0-0-63098/list/270x152/0063098_list_80888170.jpg',
+            'tags': list
        },
        'params': {
            'format': 'bv',
@@ -41,37 +52,43 @@ class Zee5IE(InfoExtractor):
    }, {
        'url': 'https://zee5.com/tvshows/details/krishna-balram/0-6-1871/episode-1-the-test-of-bramha/0-1-233402',
        'info_dict': {
-            "id": "0-1-233402",
-            'ext': 'm3u8',
-            "display_id": "episode-1-the-test-of-bramha",
-            "title": "Episode 1 - The Test Of Bramha",
-            "duration": 1336,
-            "average_rating": 4,
-            "description": str,
-            "alt_title": "Episode 1 - The Test Of Bramha",
-            "uploader": "Green Gold",
-            "release_date": "20090101",
-            "upload_date": "20090101",
-            "timestamp": 1230768000,
-            "thumbnail": "https://akamaividz.zee5.com/resources/0-1-233402/list/270x152/01233402_list.jpg",
-            "series": "Krishna Balram",
-            "season_number": 1,
-            "episode_number": 1,
-            "tags": list,
+            'id': '0-1-233402',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'display_id': 'episode-1-the-test-of-bramha',
+            'title': 'Episode 1 - The Test Of Bramha',
+            'duration': 1336,
+            'average_rating': 4,
+            'description': str,
+            'alt_title': 'Episode 1 - The Test Of Bramha',
+            'uploader': 'Green Gold',
+            'release_date': '20090101',
+            'upload_date': '20090101',
+            'timestamp': 1230768000,
+            'thumbnail': 'https://akamaividz.zee5.com/resources/0-1-233402/list/270x152/01233402_list.jpg',
+            'series': 'Krishna Balram',
+            'season_number': 1,
+            'episode_number': 1,
+            'tags': list,
        },
        'params': {
            'format': 'bv',
        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/hi/tvshows/details/kundali-bhagya/0-6-366/kundali-bhagya-march-08-2021/0-1-manual_7g9jv1os7730?country=IN',
+        'only_matching': True
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/global/hi/tvshows/details/kundali-bhagya/0-6-366/kundali-bhagya-march-08-2021/0-1-manual_7g9jv1os7730',
+        'only_matching': True
    }]

    def _real_extract(self, url):
        video_id, display_id = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).group('id', 'display_id')
        access_token_request = self._download_json(
            'https://useraction.zee5.com/token/platform_tokens.php?platform_name=web_app',
-            video_id, note="Downloading access token")
+            video_id, note='Downloading access token')
        token_request = self._download_json(
            'https://useraction.zee5.com/tokennd',
-            video_id, note="Downloading video token")
+            video_id, note='Downloading video token')
        json_data = self._download_json(
            'https://gwapi.zee5.com/content/details/{}?translation=en&country=IN'.format(video_id),
            video_id, headers={'X-Access-Token': access_token_request['token']})
@@ -111,3 +128,78 @@ class Zee5IE(InfoExtractor):
            'episode_number': int_or_none(try_get(json_data, lambda x: x['index'])),
            'tags': try_get(json_data, lambda x: x['tags'], list)
        }
+
+
+class Zee5SeriesIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'zee5:series'
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)
+                     (?:
+                        zee5:series:|
+                        (?:https?://)(?:www\.)?zee5\.com/(?:[^#?]+/)?
+                        (?:tvshows|kids|zee5originals)(?:/[^#/?]+){2}/
+                     )
+                     (?P<id>[^#/?]+)/?(?:$|[?#])
+                     '''
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/kids/kids-shows/krishna-balram/0-6-1871',
+        'playlist_mincount': 43,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0-6-1871',
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/bhabi-ji-ghar-par-hai/0-6-199',
+        'playlist_mincount': 1500,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0-6-199',
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/agent-raghav-crime-branch/0-6-965',
+        'playlist_mincount': 25,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0-6-965',
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/ta/tvshows/details/nagabhairavi/0-6-3201',
+        'playlist_mincount': 3,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0-6-3201',
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://www.zee5.com/global/hi/tvshows/details/khwaabon-ki-zamin-par/0-6-270',
+        'playlist_mincount': 150,
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '0-6-270',
+        },
+    }
+    ]
+
+    def _entries(self, show_id):
+        access_token_request = self._download_json(
+            'https://useraction.zee5.com/token/platform_tokens.php?platform_name=web_app',
+            show_id, note='Downloading access token')
+        headers = {
+            'X-Access-Token': access_token_request['token'],
+            'Referer': 'https://www.zee5.com/',
+        }
+        show_url = 'https://gwapi.zee5.com/content/tvshow/{}?translation=en&country=IN'.format(show_id)
+
+        page_num = 0
+        show_json = self._download_json(show_url, video_id=show_id, headers=headers)
+        for season in show_json.get('seasons') or []:
+            season_id = try_get(season, lambda x: x['id'], compat_str)
+            next_url = 'https://gwapi.zee5.com/content/tvshow/?season_id={}&type=episode&translation=en&country=IN&on_air=false&asset_subtype=tvshow&page=1&limit=100'.format(season_id)
+            while next_url:
+                page_num += 1
+                episodes_json = self._download_json(
+                    next_url, video_id=show_id, headers=headers,
+                    note='Downloading JSON metadata page %d' % page_num)
+                for episode in try_get(episodes_json, lambda x: x['episode'], list) or []:
+                    video_id = episode.get('id')
+                    yield self.url_result(
+                        'zee5:%s' % video_id,
+                        ie=Zee5IE.ie_key(), video_id=video_id)
+                next_url = url_or_none(episodes_json.get('next_episode_api'))
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        show_id = self._match_id(url)
+        return self.playlist_result(self._entries(show_id), playlist_id=show_id)
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -214,12 +214,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
        help='Mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
    general.add_option(
        '--no-mark-watched',
-        action='store_false', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
-        help='Do not mark videos watched')
+        action='store_false', dest='mark_watched',
+        help='Do not mark videos watched (default)')
    general.add_option(
        '--no-colors',
-        action='store_true', dest='no_color',
-        default=False,
+        action='store_true', dest='no_color', default=False,
        help='Do not emit color codes in output')

    network = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Network Options')
@@ -534,11 +533,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    subtitles.add_option(
        '--write-auto-subs', '--write-automatic-subs',
        action='store_true', dest='writeautomaticsub', default=False,
-        help='Write automatically generated subtitle file (YouTube only)')
+        help='Write automatically generated subtitle file (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)')
    subtitles.add_option(
        '--no-write-auto-subs', '--no-write-automatic-subs',
        action='store_false', dest='writeautomaticsub', default=False,
-        help='Do not write automatically generated subtitle file (default)')
+        help='Do not write auto-generated subtitles (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)')
    subtitles.add_option(
        '--all-subs',
        action='store_true', dest='allsubtitles', default=False,
@@ -552,12 +551,16 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
        action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
        help='Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
    subtitles.add_option(
-        '--sub-lang', '--sub-langs', '--srt-lang',
+        '--sub-langs', '--srt-langs',
        action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
        default=[], callback=_comma_separated_values_options_callback,
        help='Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, use --list-subs for available language tags')

    downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
+    downloader.add_option(
+        '-N', '--concurrent-fragments',
+        dest='concurrent_fragment_downloads', metavar='N', default=1, type=int,
+        help='Number of fragments to download concurrently (default is %default)')
    downloader.add_option(
        '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
        dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
@@ -676,7 +679,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    workarounds.add_option(
        '--prefer-insecure', '--prefer-unsecure',
        action='store_true', dest='prefer_insecure',
-        help='Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video. (Currently supported only for YouTube)')
+        help='Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video (Currently supported only for YouTube)')
    workarounds.add_option(
        '--user-agent',
        metavar='UA', dest='user_agent',
@@ -704,17 +707,13 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
        '--sleep-interval', '--min-sleep-interval', metavar='SECONDS',
        dest='sleep_interval', type=float,
        help=(
-            'Number of seconds to sleep before each download when used alone '
-            'or a lower bound of a range for randomized sleep before each download '
-            '(minimum possible number of seconds to sleep) when used along with '
-            '--max-sleep-interval'))
+            'Number of seconds to sleep before each download. '
+            'This is the minimum time to sleep when used along with --max-sleep-interval '
+            '(Alias: --min-sleep-interval)'))
    workarounds.add_option(
        '--max-sleep-interval', metavar='SECONDS',
        dest='max_sleep_interval', type=float,
-        help=(
-            'Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep before each download '
-            '(maximum possible number of seconds to sleep). Must only be used '
-            'along with --min-sleep-interval'))
+        help='Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can only be used along with --min-sleep-interval')
    workarounds.add_option(
        '--sleep-subtitles', metavar='SECONDS',
        dest='sleep_interval_subtitles', default=0, type=int,
@@ -736,7 +735,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    verbosity.add_option(
        '--skip-download', '--no-download',
        action='store_true', dest='skip_download', default=False,
-        help='Do not download the video')
+        help='Do not download the video but write all related files (Alias: --no-download)')
    verbosity.add_option(
        '-g', '--get-url',
        action='store_true', dest='geturl', default=False,
@@ -979,9 +978,17 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--no-write-playlist-metafiles',
        action='store_false', dest='allow_playlist_files',
+        help='Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.')
+    filesystem.add_option(
+        '--clean-infojson',
+        action='store_true', dest='clean_infojson', default=True,
        help=(
-            'Do not write playlist metadata when using '
-            '--write-info-json, --write-description etc.'))
+            'Remove some private fields such as filenames from the infojson. '
+            'Note that it could still contain some personal information (default)'))
+    filesystem.add_option(
+        '--no-clean-infojson',
+        action='store_false', dest='clean_infojson',
+        help='Write all fields to the infojson')
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--get-comments',
        action='store_true', dest='getcomments', default=False,
@@ -1083,12 +1090,12 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
            'Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the arguments separated by a colon ":" '
            'to give the argument to the specified postprocessor/executable. Supported postprocessors are: '
            'SponSkrub, ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor, EmbedSubtitle, Metadata, Merger, '
-            'FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, SubtitlesConvertor and EmbedThumbnail. '
+            'FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, SubtitlesConvertor, EmbedThumbnail and SplitChapters. '
            'The supported executables are: SponSkrub, FFmpeg, FFprobe, and AtomicParsley. '
            'You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the specified executable '
            'only when being used by the specified postprocessor. Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, '
-            'a number can be appended to the exe name seperated by "_i" to pass the argument '
-            'before the specified input file. Eg: --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". '
+            '"_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix optionally followed by a number to pass the argument '
+            'before the specified input/output file. Eg: --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". '
            'You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to different '
            'postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)'))
    postproc.add_option(
@@ -1154,7 +1161,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
        help='Write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
    postproc.add_option(
        '--fixup',
-        metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default='detect_or_warn',
+        metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default=None,
        help=(
            'Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
            'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
@@ -1176,9 +1183,20 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
        metavar='CMD', dest='exec_cmd',
        help='Execute a command on the file after downloading and post-processing, similar to find\'s -exec syntax. Example: --exec \'adb push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}\'')
    postproc.add_option(
-        '--convert-subs', '--convert-subtitles',
+        '--convert-subs', '--convert-sub', '--convert-subtitles',
        metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertsubtitles', default=None,
-        help='Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc)')
+        help='Convert the subtitles to another format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt|lrc) (Alias: --convert-subtitles)')
+    postproc.add_option(
+        '--split-chapters', '--split-tracks',
+        dest='split_chapters', action='store_true', default=False,
+        help=(
+            'Split video into multiple files based on internal chapters. '
+            'The "chapter:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
+            'set the output filename for the split files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
+    postproc.add_option(
+        '--no-split-chapters', '--no-split-tracks',
+        dest='split_chapters', action='store_false',
+        help='Do not split video based on chapters (default)')

    sponskrub = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'SponSkrub (SponsorBlock) Options', description=(
        'SponSkrub (https://github.com/yt-dlp/SponSkrub) is a utility to mark/remove sponsor segments '
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/init.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/init.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from .ffmpeg import (
    FFmpegVideoConvertorPP,
    FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP,
    FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP,
+    FFmpegSplitChaptersPP,
 )
 from .xattrpp import XAttrMetadataPP
 from .execafterdownload import ExecAfterDownloadPP
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ __all__ = [
    'ExecAfterDownloadPP',
    'FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP',
    'FFmpegExtractAudioPP',
+    'FFmpegSplitChaptersPP',
    'FFmpegFixupM3u8PP',
    'FFmpegFixupM4aPP',
    'FFmpegFixupStretchedPP',
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/common.py
@@ -91,10 +91,18 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
        except Exception:
            self.report_warning(errnote)

-    def _configuration_args(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def _configuration_args(self, exe, keys=None, default=[], use_compat=True):
+        pp_key = self.pp_key().lower()
+        exe = exe.lower()
+        root_key = exe if pp_key == exe else '%s+%s' % (pp_key, exe)
+        keys = ['%s%s' % (root_key, k) for k in (keys or [''])]
+        if root_key in keys:
+            keys += [root_key] + ([] if pp_key == exe else [(self.pp_key(), exe)]) + ['default']
+        else:
+            use_compat = False
        return cli_configuration_args(
            self._downloader.params.get('postprocessor_args'),
-            self.pp_key().lower(), *args, **kwargs)
+            keys, default, use_compat)


 class AudioConversionError(PostProcessingError):
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/embedthumbnail.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/embedthumbnail.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
            self.to_screen('There aren\'t any thumbnails to embed')
            return [], info

-        original_thumbnail = thumbnail_filename = info['thumbnails'][-1]['filename']
+        initial_thumbnail = original_thumbnail = thumbnail_filename = info['thumbnails'][-1]['filepath']

        if not os.path.exists(encodeFilename(thumbnail_filename)):
            self.report_warning('Skipping embedding the thumbnail because the file is missing.')
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
            if thumbnail_ext != 'webp' and is_webp(thumbnail_filename):
                self.to_screen('Correcting extension to webp and escaping path for thumbnail "%s"' % thumbnail_filename)
                thumbnail_webp_filename = replace_extension(thumbnail_filename, 'webp')
+                if os.path.exists(thumbnail_webp_filename):
+                    os.remove(thumbnail_webp_filename)
                os.rename(encodeFilename(thumbnail_filename), encodeFilename(thumbnail_webp_filename))
                original_thumbnail = thumbnail_filename = thumbnail_webp_filename
                thumbnail_ext = 'webp'
@@ -85,6 +87,8 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
            thumbnail_filename = thumbnail_jpg_filename
            thumbnail_ext = 'jpg'

+        mtime = os.stat(encodeFilename(filename)).st_mtime
+
        success = True
        if info['ext'] == 'mp3':
            options = [
@@ -131,7 +135,7 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                    x for x in ['AtomicParsley', 'atomicparsley']
                    if check_executable(x, ['-v'])), None)
                if atomicparsley is None:
-                    raise EmbedThumbnailPPError('AtomicParsley was not found. Please install.')
+                    raise EmbedThumbnailPPError('AtomicParsley was not found. Please install')

                cmd = [encodeFilename(atomicparsley, True),
                       encodeFilename(filename, True),
@@ -139,7 +143,7 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                       encodeFilename(thumbnail_filename, True),
                       encodeArgument('-o'),
                       encodeFilename(temp_filename, True)]
-                cmd += [encodeArgument(o) for o in self._configuration_args(exe='AtomicParsley')]
+                cmd += [encodeArgument(o) for o in self._configuration_args('AtomicParsley')]

                self.to_screen('Adding thumbnail to "%s"' % filename)
                self.write_debug('AtomicParsley command line: %s' % shell_quote(cmd))
@@ -187,10 +191,13 @@ class EmbedThumbnailPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
            os.remove(encodeFilename(filename))
            os.rename(encodeFilename(temp_filename), encodeFilename(filename))

+        self.try_utime(filename, mtime, mtime)
+
        files_to_delete = [thumbnail_filename]
        if self._already_have_thumbnail:
            info['__files_to_move'][original_thumbnail] = replace_extension(
-                info['__thumbnail_filename'], os.path.splitext(original_thumbnail)[1][1:])
+                info['__files_to_move'][initial_thumbnail],
+                os.path.splitext(original_thumbnail)[1][1:])
            if original_thumbnail == thumbnail_filename:
                files_to_delete = []
        elif original_thumbnail != thumbnail_filename:
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import json

 from .common import AudioConversionError, PostProcessor

+from ..compat import compat_str
 from ..utils import (
    encodeArgument,
    encodeFilename,
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@ from ..utils import (
    PostProcessingError,
    prepend_extension,
    shell_quote,
-    subtitles_filename,
    dfxp2srt,
    ISO639Utils,
    process_communicate_or_kill,
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class FFmpegPostProcessor(PostProcessor):

    def check_version(self):
        if not self.available:
-            raise FFmpegPostProcessorError('ffmpeg not found. Please install')
+            raise FFmpegPostProcessorError('ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location')

        required_version = '10-0' if self.basename == 'avconv' else '1.0'
        if is_outdated_version(
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class FFmpegPostProcessor(PostProcessor):

    def get_audio_codec(self, path):
        if not self.probe_available and not self.available:
-            raise PostProcessingError('ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install')
+            raise PostProcessingError('ffprobe and ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location')
        try:
            if self.probe_available:
                cmd = [
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class FFmpegPostProcessor(PostProcessor):
        if self.probe_basename != 'ffprobe':
            if self.probe_available:
                self.report_warning('Only ffprobe is supported for metadata extraction')
-            raise PostProcessingError('ffprobe not found. Please install.')
+            raise PostProcessingError('ffprobe not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location')
        self.check_version()

        cmd = [
@@ -234,25 +234,35 @@ class FFmpegPostProcessor(PostProcessor):
        return num, len(streams)

    def run_ffmpeg_multiple_files(self, input_paths, out_path, opts):
+        return self.real_run_ffmpeg(
+            [(path, []) for path in input_paths],
+            [(out_path, opts)])
+
+    def real_run_ffmpeg(self, input_path_opts, output_path_opts):
        self.check_version()

        oldest_mtime = min(
-            os.stat(encodeFilename(path)).st_mtime for path in input_paths)
+            os.stat(encodeFilename(path)).st_mtime for path, _ in input_path_opts)

        cmd = [encodeFilename(self.executable, True), encodeArgument('-y')]
        # avconv does not have repeat option
        if self.basename == 'ffmpeg':
            cmd += [encodeArgument('-loglevel'), encodeArgument('repeat+info')]

-        def make_args(file, pre=[], post=[], *args, **kwargs):
-            args = pre + self._configuration_args(*args, **kwargs) + post
+        def make_args(file, args, name, number):
+            keys = ['_%s%d' % (name, number), '_%s' % name]
+            if name == 'o' and number == 1:
+                keys.append('')
+            args += self._configuration_args(self.basename, keys)
+            if name == 'i':
+                args.append('-i')
            return (
-                [encodeArgument(o) for o in args]
+                [encodeArgument(arg) for arg in args]
                + [encodeFilename(self._ffmpeg_filename_argument(file), True)])

-        for i, path in enumerate(input_paths):
-            cmd += make_args(path, post=['-i'], exe='%s_i%d' % (self.basename, i + 1), use_default_arg=False)
-        cmd += make_args(out_path, pre=opts, exe=self.basename)
+        for arg_type, path_opts in (('i', input_path_opts), ('o', output_path_opts)):
+            cmd += [arg for i, o in enumerate(path_opts)
+                    for arg in make_args(o[0], o[1], arg_type, i + 1)]

        self.write_debug('ffmpeg command line: %s' % shell_quote(cmd))
        p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
@@ -262,7 +272,8 @@ class FFmpegPostProcessor(PostProcessor):
            if self.get_param('verbose', False):
                self.report_error(stderr)
            raise FFmpegPostProcessorError(stderr.split('\n')[-1])
-        self.try_utime(out_path, oldest_mtime, oldest_mtime)
+        for out_path, _ in output_path_opts:
+            self.try_utime(out_path, oldest_mtime, oldest_mtime)
        return stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace')

    def run_ffmpeg(self, path, out_path, opts):
@@ -474,7 +485,7 @@ class FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                self.report_warning('JSON subtitles cannot be embedded')
            elif ext != 'webm' or ext == 'webm' and sub_ext == 'vtt':
                sub_langs.append(lang)
-                sub_filenames.append(subtitles_filename(filename, lang, sub_ext, ext))
+                sub_filenames.append(sub_info['filepath'])
            else:
                if not webm_vtt_warn and ext == 'webm' and sub_ext != 'vtt':
                    webm_vtt_warn = True
@@ -539,8 +550,8 @@ class FFmpegMetadataPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):

        add('title', ('track', 'title'))
        add('date', 'upload_date')
-        add(('description', 'comment'), 'description')
-        add('purl', 'webpage_url')
+        add(('description', 'synopsis'), 'description')
+        add(('purl', 'comment'), 'webpage_url')
        add('track', 'track_number')
        add('artist', ('artist', 'creator', 'uploader', 'uploader_id'))
        add('genre')
@@ -700,7 +711,6 @@ class FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):

    def run(self, info):
        subs = info.get('requested_subtitles')
-        filename = info['filepath']
        new_ext = self.format
        new_format = new_ext
        if new_format == 'vtt':
@@ -720,9 +730,9 @@ class FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                    'You have requested to convert json subtitles into another format, '
                    'which is currently not possible')
                continue
-            old_file = subtitles_filename(filename, lang, ext, info.get('ext'))
+            old_file = sub['filepath']
            sub_filenames.append(old_file)
-            new_file = subtitles_filename(filename, lang, new_ext, info.get('ext'))
+            new_file = replace_extension(old_file, new_ext)

            if ext in ('dfxp', 'ttml', 'tt'):
                self.report_warning(
@@ -730,7 +740,7 @@ class FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                    'which results in style information loss')

                dfxp_file = old_file
-                srt_file = subtitles_filename(filename, lang, 'srt', info.get('ext'))
+                srt_file = replace_extension(old_file, 'srt')

                with open(dfxp_file, 'rb') as f:
                    srt_data = dfxp2srt(f.read())
@@ -741,7 +751,8 @@ class FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):

                subs[lang] = {
                    'ext': 'srt',
-                    'data': srt_data
+                    'data': srt_data,
+                    'filepath': srt_file,
                }

                if new_ext == 'srt':
@@ -755,6 +766,47 @@ class FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
                subs[lang] = {
                    'ext': new_ext,
                    'data': f.read(),
+                    'filepath': new_file,
                }

+            info['__files_to_move'][new_file] = replace_extension(
+                info['__files_to_move'][old_file], new_ext)
+
        return sub_filenames, info
+
+
+class FFmpegSplitChaptersPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
+
+    def _prepare_filename(self, number, chapter, info):
+        info = info.copy()
+        info.update({
+            'section_number': number,
+            'section_title': chapter.get('title'),
+            'section_start': chapter.get('start_time'),
+            'section_end': chapter.get('end_time'),
+        })
+        return self._downloader.prepare_filename(info, 'chapter')
+
+    def _ffmpeg_args_for_chapter(self, number, chapter, info):
+        destination = self._prepare_filename(number, chapter, info)
+        if not self._downloader._ensure_dir_exists(encodeFilename(destination)):
+            return
+
+        chapter['filepath'] = destination
+        self.to_screen('Chapter %03d; Destination: %s' % (number, destination))
+        return (
+            destination,
+            ['-ss', compat_str(chapter['start_time']),
+             '-t', compat_str(chapter['end_time'] - chapter['start_time'])])
+
+    def run(self, info):
+        chapters = info.get('chapters') or []
+        if not chapters:
+            self.report_warning('Chapter information is unavailable')
+            return [], info
+
+        self.to_screen('Splitting video by chapters; %d chapters found' % len(chapters))
+        for idx, chapter in enumerate(chapters):
+            destination, opts = self._ffmpeg_args_for_chapter(idx + 1, chapter, info)
+            self.real_run_ffmpeg([(info['filepath'], opts)], [(destination, ['-c', 'copy'])])
+        return [], info
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/movefilesafterdownload.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/movefilesafterdownload.py
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@ from ..utils import (

 class MoveFilesAfterDownloadPP(PostProcessor):

-    def __init__(self, downloader, files_to_move):
-        PostProcessor.__init__(self, downloader)
-        self.files_to_move = files_to_move
-
    @classmethod
    def pp_key(cls):
        return 'MoveFiles'
@@ -25,11 +21,10 @@ class MoveFilesAfterDownloadPP(PostProcessor):
        dl_path, dl_name = os.path.split(encodeFilename(info['filepath']))
        finaldir = info.get('__finaldir', dl_path)
        finalpath = os.path.join(finaldir, dl_name)
-        self.files_to_move.update(info['__files_to_move'])
-        self.files_to_move[info['filepath']] = decodeFilename(finalpath)
+        info['__files_to_move'][info['filepath']] = decodeFilename(finalpath)

        make_newfilename = lambda old: decodeFilename(os.path.join(finaldir, os.path.basename(encodeFilename(old))))
-        for oldfile, newfile in self.files_to_move.items():
+        for oldfile, newfile in info['__files_to_move'].items():
            if not newfile:
                newfile = make_newfilename(oldfile)
            if os.path.abspath(encodeFilename(oldfile)) == os.path.abspath(encodeFilename(newfile)):
--- a/yt_dlp/postprocessor/sponskrub.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/postprocessor/sponskrub.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from .common import PostProcessor
 from ..compat import compat_shlex_split
 from ..utils import (
    check_executable,
+    cli_option,
    encodeArgument,
    encodeFilename,
    shell_quote,
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ class SponSkrubPP(PostProcessor):
            if path:
                raise PostProcessingError('sponskrub not found in "%s"' % path)
            else:
-                raise PostProcessingError('sponskrub not found. Please install or provide the path using --sponskrub-path.')
+                raise PostProcessingError('sponskrub not found. Please install or provide the path using --sponskrub-path')

    def get_exe(self, path=''):
        if not path or not check_executable(path, ['-h']):
@@ -70,8 +71,9 @@ class SponSkrubPP(PostProcessor):
        cmd = [self.path]
        if not self.cutout:
            cmd += ['-chapter']
+        cmd += cli_option(self._downloader.params, '-proxy', 'proxy')
        cmd += compat_shlex_split(self.args)  # For backward compatibility
-        cmd += self._configuration_args(exe=self._exe_name, use_default_arg='no_compat')
+        cmd += self._configuration_args(self._exe_name, use_compat=False)
        cmd += ['--', information['id'], filename, temp_filename]
        cmd = [encodeArgument(i) for i in cmd]

--- a/yt_dlp/update.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/update.py
@@ -49,12 +49,16 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
                h.update(mv[:n])
        return h.hexdigest()

-    to_screen('Current Build Hash %s' % calc_sha256sum(sys.executable))
-
    if not isinstance(globals().get('__loader__'), zipimporter) and not hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
        to_screen('It looks like you installed yt-dlp with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.')
        return

+    # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe
+    # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually
+    # with help of realpath
+    filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0])
+    to_screen('Current Build Hash %s' % calc_sha256sum(filename))
+
    # Download and check versions info
    try:
        version_info = opener.open(JSON_URL).read().decode('utf-8')
@@ -103,11 +107,6 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
            (i[1] for i in hashes if i[0] == 'yt-dlp%s' % label),
            None)

-    # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe
-    # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually
-    # with help of realpath
-    filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0])
-
    if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
        to_screen('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
        return
@@ -198,28 +197,18 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
            to_screen('Visit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest')
            return

+        expected_sum = get_sha256sum('zip', py_ver)
+        if expected_sum and hashlib.sha256(newcontent).hexdigest() != expected_sum:
+            to_screen('ERROR: unable to verify the new zip')
+            to_screen('Visit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest')
+            return
+
        try:
-            with open(filename + '.new', 'wb') as outf:
+            with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
                outf.write(newcontent)
        except (IOError, OSError):
            if verbose:
                to_screen(encode_compat_str(traceback.format_exc()))
-            to_screen('ERROR: unable to write the new version')
-            return
-
-        expected_sum = get_sha256sum('zip', py_ver)
-        if expected_sum and calc_sha256sum(filename + '.new') != expected_sum:
-            to_screen('ERROR: unable to verify the new zip')
-            to_screen('Visit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest')
-            try:
-                os.remove(filename + '.new')
-            except OSError:
-                to_screen('ERROR: unable to remove corrupt zip')
-            return
-
-        try:
-            os.rename(filename + '.new', filename)
-        except OSError:
            to_screen('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
            return

--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):

    try:
        with tf:
-            json.dump(obj, tf)
+            json.dump(obj, tf, default=repr)
        if sys.platform == 'win32':
            # Need to remove existing file on Windows, else os.rename raises
            # WindowsError or FileExistsError.
@@ -4106,6 +4106,7 @@ def parse_age_limit(s):
    m = re.match(r'^(?P<age>\d{1,2})\+?$', s)
    if m:
        return int(m.group('age'))
+    s = s.upper()
    if s in US_RATINGS:
        return US_RATINGS[s]
    m = re.match(r'^TV[_-]?(%s)$' % '|'.join(k[3:] for k in TV_PARENTAL_GUIDELINES), s)
@@ -4182,8 +4183,10 @@ def qualities(quality_ids):

 DEFAULT_OUTTMPL = {
    'default': '%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s',
+    'chapter': '%(title)s - %(section_number)03d %(section_title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s',
 }
 OUTTMPL_TYPES = {
+    'chapter': None,
    'subtitle': None,
    'thumbnail': None,
    'description': 'description',
@@ -4692,36 +4695,26 @@ def cli_valueless_option(params, command_option, param, expected_value=True):
    return [command_option] if param == expected_value else []


-def cli_configuration_args(argdict, key, default=[], exe=None, use_default_arg=True):
-    # use_default_arg can be True, False, or 'no_compat'
+def cli_configuration_args(argdict, keys, default=[], use_compat=True):
    if isinstance(argdict, (list, tuple)):  # for backward compatibility
-        if use_default_arg is True:
+        if use_compat:
            return argdict
        else:
            argdict = None
-
    if argdict is None:
        return default
    assert isinstance(argdict, dict)

-    key = key.lower()
-    args = exe_args = None
-    if exe is not None:
-        assert isinstance(exe, compat_str)
-        exe = exe.lower()
-        args = argdict.get('%s+%s' % (key, exe))
-        if args is None:
-            exe_args = argdict.get(exe)
-
-    if args is None:
-        args = argdict.get(key) if key != exe else None
-    if args is None and exe_args is None:
-        args = argdict.get('default', default) if use_default_arg else default
-
-    args, exe_args = args or [], exe_args or []
-    assert isinstance(args, (list, tuple))
-    assert isinstance(exe_args, (list, tuple))
-    return args + exe_args
+    assert isinstance(keys, (list, tuple))
+    for key_list in keys:
+        if isinstance(key_list, compat_str):
+            key_list = (key_list,)
+        arg_list = list(filter(
+            lambda x: x is not None,
+            [argdict.get(key.lower()) for key in key_list]))
+        if arg_list:
+            return [arg for args in arg_list for arg in args]
+    return default


 class ISO639Utils(object):
--- a/yt_dlp/version.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals

-__version__ = '2021.03.03.1'
+__version__ = '2021.03.15'
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
pukkandan	d392c66fb4	Release 2021.03.21	2021-03-22 02:56:39 +05:30
pukkandan	a31a3a791c	Update to ytdl-commit-7e79ba7 `7e79ba7dd6` [vimeo:album] Fix extraction for albums with number of videos multiple to page size	2021-03-22 02:56:38 +05:30
Matthew	89a0d0c071	[youtube] Show if video is `private`, `unlisted` etc in new field `availability` Authored by: colethedj, pukkandan	2021-03-22 02:53:34 +05:30
pukkandan	037cc66ec8	[linuxacadamy] Improve regex TODO: We need to make a more robust standard regex for fetching js objects from html	2021-03-21 21:27:33 +05:30
Two Sheds" Jackson	9160a0c6a2	[nbc] Improve metadata extraction (#187 ) Authored by: 2ShedsJackson	2021-03-21 21:26:31 +05:30
2ShedsJackson	5c5fae6d2f	[amcnetworks] Fix extractor (#179 ) * Prefer use of manifest based on `releasePid` since the one based on `videoPid` may have Fairplay * Additional thumbnail images were added * Don't add `season_number` and `series` to `title` * `series` is now set to `None` rather than "_" when empty * fix bug with age limit Authored by: 2ShedsJackson	2021-03-20 16:11:11 +05:30
pukkandan	c1d3a4a8f0	[niconico] Add user extractor Co-authored by: animelover1984	2021-03-20 14:59:39 +05:30
pukkandan	adc74b3c6d	[bilibili] Add anthology support Closes: #118 Co-authored by: animelover1984	2021-03-20 14:56:42 +05:30
pukkandan	beb4b92a66	More consistent warning messages (#173 ) Co-authored by: Damiano Amatruda <damiano.amatruda@outlook.com>	2021-03-20 09:34:52 +05:30
pukkandan	cd9b384cc3	Embed video URL metadata inside MP4 (#173 ) `mp4` has `comment` and `synopsis`; the synopsis is expected to have the long description So we save the `webpage_url` to `comment` and `description` to `synopsis` Related: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28478 Co-authored by: Damiano Amatruda <damiano.amatruda@outlook.com>	2021-03-20 09:34:52 +05:30
pukkandan	4d971a16b8	Merge webm formats into mkv if thumbnails are to be embedded (#173 ) Co-authored by: Damiano Amatruda <damiano.amatruda@outlook.com>	2021-03-20 09:34:52 +05:30
Damiano Amatruda	3561530776	Parse resolution in info dictionary (#173 )	2021-03-20 09:34:52 +05:30
Damiano Amatruda	4690688658	Use headers and cookies when downloading subtitles (#173 )	2021-03-20 09:34:52 +05:30
pukkandan	fe845284c4	[aria2c] Support retry/abort unavailable fragments (#173 ) Co-authored by: Damiano Amatruda <damiano.amatruda@outlook.com>	2021-03-20 09:33:33 +05:30
pukkandan	2b3bf01c90	[aria2c] Better default arguments	2021-03-20 09:31:53 +05:30
pukkandan	23c1a66730	Make sure `post_hook` gets the final filename	2021-03-20 09:31:53 +05:30
pukkandan	dd18a58cb1	[documentation] Add `SplitChapters` to `--ppa`	2021-03-20 09:31:53 +05:30
pukkandan	a94bfd6cfe	[splitchapters] Fix for older ffmpeg Older versions of ffmpeg doesn't allow `-to` as an input option Closes #180	2021-03-20 09:31:53 +05:30
pukkandan	a515a78dd3	fix some typos and linter	2021-03-18 22:19:31 +05:30
pukkandan	e167860ce7	[documentation] Add deprecated options and aliases in readme	2021-03-18 22:07:50 +05:30
pukkandan	75d43ca080	Option to keep private keys in the infojson Options: --clean-infojson, --no-clean-infojson Related: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/42#issuecomment-800778391	2021-03-18 21:00:45 +05:30
pukkandan	5226731e2d	Recursively remove private keys from infojson Related: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/42	2021-03-18 21:00:45 +05:30
pukkandan	dcf64d43e0	[movefiles] Fix bugs and make more robust	2021-03-18 20:54:53 +05:30
pukkandan	e3c076970e	[youtube] bugfix for channel playlist extraction Bug introduced in `cd7c66cf01`	2021-03-17 17:35:02 +05:30
pukkandan	7978e172f3	[niconico] Partial fix TODO: Smile formats don't work Extraction code that no longer works needs to be removed Adapted from: `b5eff52dd9` by animelover1984 Related: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/171 https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl/issues/29 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28470	2021-03-17 15:38:24 +05:30
nixxo	605d299f83	[stitcher] Merge from youtube-dl (#175 ) This cherry-picks the commits: `a563c97c5c (diff-cc37718b18689c1c0588c4c74518853ef43ab020bbd674f3c04d4eae037798d2)` `8522bcd97c (diff-cc37718b18689c1c0588c4c74518853ef43ab020bbd674f3c04d4eae037798d2)` Authored by: nixxo	2021-03-16 15:32:10 +05:30
nixxo	18c1f04362	[rcs] Improved extraction (See desc) (#170 ) * improved `video_data` extraction * added an extra fallback value for `description` * improved regex in `RCSVariousIE` Authored by: nixxo	2021-03-16 00:26:29 +05:30
pukkandan	e4beae703d	[formatSort] Fix `quality` being ignored Closes #172	2021-03-15 23:55:53 +05:30
pukkandan	d034ab669c	[sponskrub] Pass proxy to sponskrub Needs atleast sponskrub version: faissaloo/sponskrub 3.7.0 OR yt-dlp/sponskrub 2021.03.15	2021-03-15 06:27:21 +05:30
pukkandan	5aeefbd633	[version] update :ci skip all	2021-03-15 06:03:59 +05:30
pukkandan	597c18665e	Release 2021.03.15	2021-03-15 05:54:39 +05:30
pukkandan	10db0d2f57	Update to ytdl-commit-3be0980 `3be098010f`	2021-03-15 04:52:06 +05:30
pukkandan	7275535116	Split video by chapters (#158 ) * New options `--split-chapters` and `--no-split-chapters` * The output/path of the split files can be given using the key `chapter` * Additional keys `section_title`, `section_number`, `section_start`, `section_end` are available in the output template * Alias `--split-tracks` for parity with animelover/youtube-dl * `--sponskrub-cut` and `--split-chapter` cannot work together Closes: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/issues/277 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28438 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/12907 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/6480 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/25005 Rewritten from the implementation by: femaref and Wattux https://github.com/Wattux/youtube-dl/tree/split-at-timestamps https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/25005 https://github.com/femaref/youtube-dl/tree/split-track	2021-03-15 04:32:13 +05:30
Matthew	a1c5d2ca64	[Youtube] Rewrite comment extraction (#167 ) Closes #121 TODO: * Add an option for the user to specify newest/popular and max number of comments * Refactor the download code and generalize with TabIE * Parse time_text to timestamp	2021-03-15 04:11:11 +05:30
pukkandan	ca87974543	[embedthumbnail] Set mtime correctly Related: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/67	2021-03-14 21:56:04 +05:30
pukkandan	e92caff5d5	Refactor (See desc) * Create `FFmpegPostProcessor.real_run_ffmpeg` that can accept multiple input/output files along with switches for each * Rewrite `cli_configuration_args` and related functions * Create `YoutubeDL._ensure_dir_exists` - this was previously defined in multiple places	2021-03-14 20:02:55 +05:30
CHJ85	ea3a012d2a	[pluto.tv] Add extractor (#163 ) https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/27621 Authored by: kevinoconnor7	2021-03-14 16:02:16 +05:30
pukkandan	5b8917fb52	[zee5] Support zee5originals	2021-03-14 15:22:29 +05:30
nixxo	8eec0120a2	[rai] fix drm check (#168 ) Bug introduced by #150 Authored by: nixxo	2021-03-13 21:08:50 +05:30
shirt	4cf1e5d2f9	Native concurrent downloading of fragments (#166 ) * Option `--concurrent-fragments` (`-N`) to set the number of threads Related: #165 Known issues: * When receiving Ctrl+C, the process will exit only after finishing the currently downloading fragments * The download progress shows the speed of only one thread Authored by shirt-dev	2021-03-13 10:16:58 +05:30
pukkandan	0a473f2f0f	More improvements to HLS/DASH external downloader code * Fix error when there is no `protocol` in `info_dict` * Move HLS byte range detection to `Aria2cFD` so that the download will fall back to the native downloader instead of ffmpeg * Fix bug with getting no fragments in DASH * Convert `check_results` in `can_download` to a generator	2021-03-11 22:07:42 +05:30
nixxo	e4edeb6226	[wimtv] Add extractor (#161 ) Added support for VODs, live and embeds Authored by: nixxo	2021-03-11 13:28:51 +05:30
Ashish	d488e254d9	[Zee5] Add Show Extractor (#160 ) Co-authored-by: Ashish <ashish@pop-os.localdomain> Co-authored-by: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>	2021-03-11 13:18:09 +05:30
shirt-dev	d7009caa03	Improve HLS/DASH external downloader code (#162 ) Authored by: shirt	2021-03-10 20:09:40 +05:30
pukkandan	54759df586	[zee5] Improve regex	2021-03-09 15:17:16 +05:30
nixxo	605b684c2d	[mtv] Add mtv.it and extract series metadata (#156 ) * New extractors: MTVItalia, MTVItaliaProgramma * Extract fields: series, season_number, episode_number Authored-by: nixxo	2021-03-08 19:10:27 +05:30
pukkandan	994443d24d	[version] update :ci skip all	2021-03-08 00:16:25 +05:30
pukkandan	c5640c4508	Release 2021.03.07	2021-03-08 00:06:26 +05:30
teesid	1f52a09e2e	[vimeo] Fix videos with password https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/27992 Fixes: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28354 Authored by teesid	2021-03-07 23:47:53 +05:30
pukkandan	fc21af505c	Fix some videos downloading with m3u8 extension	2021-03-07 23:22:12 +05:30
pukkandan	015f3b3120	[bilibili] Change `Accept` header (Closes #145 ) This is a temporary fix. Ideally we should find a more reasonable accept string that just "/" Fixes: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28363 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28341 Thanks to animelover1984 for identifying the problem	2021-03-07 17:59:59 +05:30
Ashish	5ba4a0b69c	[Documentation] Inclusion of two-line install script for Unix (#155 ) Closes #83 Authored-by: Ashish <ashish@pop-os.localdomain> ci skip all	2021-03-07 15:29:01 +05:30
nixxo	0852947fcc	[rai] Check for DRM (#150 ) Authored by: nixxo <nixxo@protonmail.com>	2021-03-07 13:01:59 +05:30
pukkandan	99594a11ce	Remove "fixup is ignored" warning when fixup wasn't passed by user Closes #151	2021-03-07 12:32:59 +05:30
pukkandan	2be71994c0	[youtube] Detect when Mixes end or wrap around	2021-03-07 11:04:57 +05:30
pukkandan	26fe8ffed0	[youtube] Fix community page continuation (Closes #152 )	2021-03-07 11:04:55 +05:30
nixxo	feee67ae88	[gedi] Improvements from youtube-dl (#149 ) Authored-by: nixxo <c.nixxo@gmail.com>	2021-03-06 23:40:32 +05:30
Ashish	1caaf92d47	[MXPlayer] Rewrite extractor with show support (#141 ) Co-authored-by: Ashish <ashish@pop-os.localdomain> Co-authored-by: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>	2021-03-06 01:11:02 +05:30
Matthew	d069eca7a3	[Youtube] Fix private feeds/playlists on multi-channel accounts (#143 ) Authored by: colethedj	2021-03-05 19:29:14 +05:30
Matthew	f3eaa8dd1c	[Youtube] Extract alerts from continuation (#144 ) Related: #143 Authored by: colethedj	2021-03-05 15:37:32 +05:30
pukkandan	9e631877f8	[downloader] Fix bug for ffmpeg/httpie Caused by: `7f7de7f94d`	2021-03-05 04:22:37 +05:30
pukkandan	36147a63e3	[trovo] Pass origin header (Closes #139 ) Fixes: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28346	2021-03-04 23:59:37 +05:30
pukkandan	57db6a87ef	[lbry] Support lbry:// url https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/28207 Fixes: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28084 Authored by: nixxo <nixxo@protonmail.com>	2021-03-04 23:45:28 +05:30
pukkandan	cd7c66cf01	[youtube] Fix history, trending and mix playlists (#136 ) Co-authored-by: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Matthew <colethedj@protonmail.com>	2021-03-04 23:35:26 +05:30
shirt-dev	2c736b4f61	[cbs] Add support for ParamountPlus (#138 ) Related: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28342 Authored-by: shirtjs <2660574+shirtjs@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-03-04 20:20:07 +05:30
pukkandan	c4a508ab31	[update] Fix updater removing the executable bit on some UNIX distros Closes #133	2021-03-03 19:07:14 +05:30
pukkandan	7815e55572	[update] Fix current build hash for UNIX	2021-03-03 19:02:21 +05:30
pukkandan	162e6f0000	[version] update :ci skip all	2021-03-03 16:42:23 +05:30