Xboxdvr not working - URL encoding issue

[lawlmart]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

~ lucas$ youtube-dl http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/NormalMantis456/video/19687239 -s --dump-json -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/NormalMantis456/video/19687239', u'-s', u'--dump-json', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.09.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.2, ffprobe 3.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
{"display_id": "oleE=&st=2016-07-18T20:43:39Z&se=2016-07-18T21:48:39Z&sp=r&__gda__=1468878519_193f4b7c275b962b2656577ff4f9fce0", "extractor": "generic", "format": "0 - unknown", "requested_subtitles": null, "uploader": "xboxdvr.com", "format_id": "0", "playlist_index": null, "playlist": null, "http_headers": {"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/20.0 (Chrome)"}, "url": "http://gameclipscontent-d2012.xboxlive.com/000901f2c1b0d814-1aa44090-2f86-475b-bd34-3cbba0a4f337/GameClip-Original.MP4?sv=2014-02-14&sr=c&sig=O8GPB6MywX/Ib//egGNbAkHZkl8QhM5v/4aKPs/oleE=&st=2016-07-18T20:43:39Z&se=2016-07-18T21:48:39Z&sp=r&__gda__=1468878519_193f4b7c275b962b2656577ff4f9fce0", "extractor_key": "Generic", "title": "NormalMantis456's Xbox clips on XboxDVR.com", "id": "oleE=&st=2016-07-18T20:43:39Z&se=2016-07-18T21:48:39Z&sp=r&__gda__=1468878519_193f4b7c275b962b2656577ff4f9fce0", "ext": "mp4", "webpage_url": "http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/NormalMantis456/video/19687239", "_filename": "NormalMantis456's Xbox clips on XboxDVR.com-oleE=&st=2016-07-18T20_43_39Z&se=2016-07-18T21_48_39Z&sp=r&__gda__=1468878519_193f4b7c275b962b2656577ff4f9fce0.mp4", "fulltitle": "NormalMantis456's Xbox clips on XboxDVR.com", "age_limit": 0, "webpage_url_basename": "19687239"}
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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/NormalMantis456/video/19687239

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Xboxdvr has encoded colons in the url signature. Youtube-dl is decoding them in the returned URL, causing ffmpeg to return a 403 error when it attempts to download the URL. Youtube-dl should not decode the URL parameters.

[xenova]

I know it's quite late, but I fixed it in this pull request:
#23395

(Note that XboxDVR changed to GamerDVR)