[j_cool]

Originally Posted by anonstream

got a " Unsupported URL" error.

youtube-dl might work if you supply it with right url.
Right url may not be main url.
If you ask youtube-dl team for support they insist that you provide main url only,
not url you pulled from browser's network monitor

You can ask youtube-dl team if they can make it work, but you must provide main url
and as much details as possible:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues


From here you can learn more abour youtube-dl and how it works:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-...ster/README.md

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-...DME.md#options

Authentication Options:

-u, --username USERNAME          Login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD          Account password. If this option is left
                                 out, youtube-dl will ask interactively.
-2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR        Two-factor authentication code
-n, --netrc                      Use .netrc authentication data
--video-password PASSWORD        Video password (vimeo, smotri, youku)

Every decent program has help file and you can see youtube-dl help file on command prompt:

youtube-dl --help


This works for me for VODs most of times:

streamlink.exe httpstream://https://direct-link-to-video-I-pulled-with-http-sniffer.mp4 best -o myfile.mp4

Here you must provide direct url-link to video file, not main url.