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https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31841

gamer191 - I don't know where "smuggle" came from but "youtubedl" appears to have come from your user configuration file, viz: > [debug] User config "C:\Users\jaybu\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Users\\jaybu\\ffmpeg\\bin', '-P', 'C:\\Users\\jaybu\\youtube.dl']...

And for those of us not up to python coding and compiling? :)

I tried the tailored url option and it repeatedly failed with several different shows: >yt-dlp -v https://www.sbs.com.au/api/v3/video_smil?context=tv&id=2176228931740 [debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://www.sbs.com.au/api/v3/video_smil?context=tv'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252,...

Vidiot720, just leave out "context=tv&" and it works fine. That is, use: https://www.sbs.com.au/api/v3/video_smil?id=xxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxx is the ID. I tried it on several shows and it worked fine.

Leaving out context=tv I still get the highest available quality by default and no adverts. There was a discussion elsewhere last year relating Australia's other non-commercial streaming TV service that...

Just another SBS quirk - on an SBS forum some have noted that using "https://www.sbs.com.au/api/v3/video_smil?id=xxxxxxxx" the downloaded subtitles are incomplete and/or the timings are noticeably off.

Here's the forum link. It's public to view, but you need to register to post. It's a forum devoted to downloading from SBS. https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3q6p5669?p=-1#bottom