[Broken] Mediaset [ITALY]

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.05.20
• 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

Verbose log

D:\TEMP\YDL\YDLP>yt-dlp -v -F https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/video/loveisintheair/episodio-1_F310769301000104
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', '-F', 'https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/video/loveisintheair/episodio-1_F310769301000104']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.05.20 (exe)
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.17763-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-91266-g8c20ea8ee0, ffprobe N-91266-g8c20ea8ee0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [Mediaset] Extracting URL: https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/video/loveisintheair/episodio-1_F310769301000104
[Mediaset] F310769301000104: Downloading JSON metadata
[Mediaset] F310769301000104: Downloading MPEG4 SD SMIL data
[Mediaset] F310769301000104: Downloading MPEG4 HD SMIL data
ERROR: This content is not available in your location.
You might want to use a VPN or a proxy server (with --proxy) to workaround.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1126, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1147, in __extract_info
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 564, in extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\mediaset.py", line 157, in _real_extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\mediaset.py", line 142, in _real_extract
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\theplatform.py", line 47, in _extract_theplatform_smil
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1001, in raise_geo_restricted
yt_dlp.utils.GeoRestrictedError: This content is not available in your location.

Description

Trying to download a video from mediaset.it results in a “Geo Restricted Error” even though I’m attempting the download from Italy, so without the use of a VPN or proxy.

This does not occur with all videos, for example this works right now (https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it/video/mrwronglezionidamore/episodio-1_F310575103000102), but it also seem to work fine if the video is not brand new, but not always.

In all cases, videos can be downloaded using the mpd urls instead.

[pukkandan]

@nixxo See #849, #850, #851, #852

[nixxo]

ok, got it.

I think I fixed it. I’ll do some more tests to see if it works on other links as well.