- add --ap-username and --ap-password option to specify
TV provider username and password in the cmd line
- add --ap-retries option to limit the number of retries
- add --list-ap-msi-ids to list the supported TV Providers
The configuration file contents are being returned as unicode now, so decoding them is no longer necessary.
(Run python2 with -3 to see the warning before this commit)
When using the mpegts container hls vidoes can be played while being downloaded (useful if you are recording a live stream).
VLC and mpv play them file, but QuickTime doesn't.
For some extractors that are hard to workout a good _VALID_URL we use very vague and unrestrictive ones,
e.g. just allowing anything after hostname and capturing part of URL as id.
If some of these extractors happen to have an video embed of some different hoster or platform
and this scenario was not handled in extractor itself we end up with inability to download this embed
until extractor is fixed to support embed of this kind.
Forcing downloader to use the generic extractor can be a neat temporary solution for this problem.
Example: FiveTV extractor with Tvigle embed - http://www.5-tv.ru/rabota/broadcasts/48/
As the "LG Time Machine" (a (not so) smart TV) has a limitation for video dimensions (as for codecs), I take to implement an extra parameter `--pp-params` where we can send extra parameterization for the video converter (post-processor).
Example:
```
$ youtube-dl --recode-video=xvid --pp-params='-s 720x480' -c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7Qoe2ZiXE
```
That works fine on a 4yo LG Time Machine.
Closes#5733
David Haberthür
Sergey M․
Remita Amine
singh-pratyush96
Philipp Hagemeister
Yen Chi Hsuan
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz
Rastislav Barlik
Aurélio A. Heckert