Failed to download m3u8 information - No video formats found on CBS / Paramount+

[jefft666]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• 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

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--cookies', u'../cookies.txt', u'--add-metadata', u'-o', u'%(series)s.S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d.%(title)s.%(height)sp.DSCP.WEB-DL.%(ext)s', u'https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/video/trdn_QshF1DlbsdedG6xdsnd5WwF6032/star-trek-discovery-si-vis-pacem-para-bellum/', u'--verbose']

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-20.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2-tessus, ffprobe 3.4.2-tessus
[debug] Proxy map: {}

[CBS] trdn_QshF1DlbsdedG6xdsnd5WwF6032: Downloading XML
[CBS] trdn_QshF1DlbsdedG6xdsnd5WwF6032: Downloading StreamPack SMIL data
[CBS] trdn_QshF1DlbsdedG6xdsnd5WwF6032: Downloading m3u8 information

WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/cbs.py", line 115, in _real_extract
return self._extract_video_info(content_id)
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/cbs.py", line 97, in _extract_video_info
self._sort_formats(formats)
File "../youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1374, in _sort_formats
raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')

ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

Some (not all) file downloads failing when downloading from CBS / Paramount+

Episodes not able to download are playable via the web interface.

Have tried getting updated cookies.txt file but this did not resolve the issue.

Have also tried opening the links (e.g. 'https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/video/trdn_QshF1DlbsdedG6xdsnd5WwF6032/star-trek-discovery-si-vis-pacem-para-bellum/') directly in web browser and they also play without issue.

If there are other command line parameters that you would like me to include so as to gather additional debugging information just let me know.

EDIT: Multiple examples included in the attached errors.log file.

errors.log

[jefft666]

I've added a --referer https://www.paramountplus.com/ command-line option to see if this resolves the issue (as described in the #29419 bug-report) but this was not able to resolve the issue.

If the dash file content might be of help I have one example attached:
stream.mpd.txt

The SMIL file for this video:
mm0miH9b8PkO.txt

[ghost]

This mpd contains ContentProtection tag and DRM protected.

[jefft666]

Yes, but so does this one (see attached) and it downloads just fine.

../youtube-dl --cookies ../cookies.txt --add-metadata -o "%(series)s.S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d.%(title)s.%(height)sp.DSCP.WEB-DL.%(ext)s" "https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/video/UF5kG511ESgjBRjYvmmmJFGso_wKdLPg/star-trek-discovery-such-sweet-sorrow/"

stream.mpd.2.txt

The SMIL file for this one which works:
nDd9Jsotfj8o.txt