[Site Request] RAI 1080p

Checklist

• I’m reporting a site feature request
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.03.24.1
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar site feature requests including closed ones

Description

This is really more of a feature request to merge an already existing really great and useful pull request by @nixxo over on the original youtube-dl repository:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/27990

This allows for direct MP4 files from the Italian site RAI, as well as the ability to get the 1080p version as well.

Here’s the current output of --list-formats with yt-dlp 2021.03.24 using the current rai.py:

yt-dlp-2021.03.24.exe --list-formats https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/03/Leonardo-S1E1-b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642.html
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading video JSON
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform mon
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading m3u8 information
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform flash
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform native
[info] Available formats for b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642:
ID                       EXT RESOLUTION |   TBR PROTO  | VCODEC    VBR ACODEC   ABR NOTE
------------------------ --- ---------- - ----- ------ - ------- ----- ------- ---- ------------------
hls-aac-Audiodescrizione mp4 audio only |       m3u8_n |               unknown      [Audiodescrizione]
hls-aac-Italiano         mp4 audio only |       m3u8_n |               unknown      [Italiano]
hls-1200                 mp4 736x414    | 1288k m3u8_n | unknown 1288k unknown   0k
hls-1800                 mp4 1024x576   | 1758k m3u8_n | unknown 1758k unknown   0k
hls-2400                 mp4 1280x720   | 2344k m3u8_n | unknown 2344k unknown   0k

And here is the --list-formats with that updated rai.py fix:

python -m youtube_dl --list-formats https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/03/Leonardo-S1E1-b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642.html
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading video JSON
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform mon
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading m3u8 information
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform flash
[RaiPlay] b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642: Downloading XML metadata for platform native
[info] Available formats for b5703b02-82ee-475a-85b6-c9e4a8adf642:
format code               extension  resolution note
hls-aac-Audiodescrizione  mp4        audio only [Audiodescrizione]
hls-aac-Italiano          mp4        audio only [Italiano]
hls-1200                  mp4        736x414    1288k
https-1200                mp4        736x414    1288k
hls-1800                  mp4        1024x576   1758k
https-1800                mp4        1024x576   1758k
hls-2400                  mp4        1280x720   2344k
https-2400                mp4        1280x720   2344k
https-3600                mp4        1440x810   3600k
https-5000                mp4        1920x1080  5000k  (best)

As you can see with the fix you get several better options, including access to https-5000 which gives you the full 1080p version.

If taking the pull request from youtube-dl isn’t kosher, then maybe @nixxo would be willing to do a new PR over here on yt-dlp.

Thanks so much!

[pukkandan]

Closed by #208

[pukkandan]

@albino1 Just letting you know that this is now in the latest release