HlsDL: ability to process the image cloaking fragments

yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py

@@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                        Actual sleep time will be a random float from range
                        [sleep_interval; max_sleep_interval].
     sleep_interval_subtitles: Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download
+    fragment_image_cloaking:
+                       Wheather strip out at the begining up to the length
+                       of the image cloaking signature.
+                       Has value of auto or list of mime:bytes_length separates by comma.
     listformats:       Print an overview of available video formats and exit.
     list_thumbnails:   Print a table of all thumbnails and exit.
     match_filter:      A function that gets called for every video with the signature
@@ -810,6 +814,17 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                 'Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.')
             self.params['restrictfilenames'] = True
 
+        if self.params.get('fragment_image_cloaking') is not None:
+            if self.params['fragment_image_cloaking'] != 'auto':
+                self.params['fragment_image_cloaking'] = {
+                    mime: int(length)
+                    for mime, length in (
+                        p.split(':') for p in self.params['fragment_image_cloaking'].split(',')
+                    )
+                }
+            else:
+                self.params['fragment_image_cloaking'] = {}
+
         self._parse_outtmpl()
 
         # Creating format selector here allows us to catch syntax errors before the extraction

yt_dlp/__init__.py

@@ -952,6 +952,7 @@ def parse_options(argv=None):
         'sleep_interval': opts.sleep_interval,
         'max_sleep_interval': opts.max_sleep_interval,
         'sleep_interval_subtitles': opts.sleep_interval_subtitles,
+        'fragment_image_cloaking': opts.fragment_image_cloaking,
         'external_downloader': opts.external_downloader,
         'download_ranges': opts.download_ranges,
         'force_keyframes_at_cuts': opts.force_keyframes_at_cuts,

yt_dlp/downloader/fragment.py

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ class FragmentFD(FileDownloader):
         if fragment_info_dict.get('filetime'):
             ctx['fragment_filetime'] = fragment_info_dict.get('filetime')
         ctx['fragment_filename_sanitized'] = fragment_filename
+        ctx['fragment_content_type'] = fragment_info_dict.get('fragment_content_type')
         return True
 
     def _read_fragment(self, ctx):
@@ -488,14 +489,25 @@ class FragmentFD(FileDownloader):
             def _download_fragment(fragment):
                 ctx_copy = ctx.copy()
                 download_fragment(fragment, ctx_copy)
-                return fragment, fragment['frag_index'], ctx_copy.get('fragment_filename_sanitized')
+                return (
+                    fragment,
+                    fragment['frag_index'],
+                    ctx_copy.get('fragment_filename_sanitized'),
+                    ctx_copy.get('fragment_content_type'),
+                )
 
             with tpe or concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers) as pool:
                 try:
-                    for fragment, frag_index, frag_filename in pool.map(_download_fragment, fragments):
+                    for (
+                        fragment,
+                        frag_index,
+                        frag_filename,
+                        fragment_content_type,
+                    ) in pool.map(_download_fragment, fragments):
                         ctx.update({
                             'fragment_filename_sanitized': frag_filename,
                             'fragment_index': frag_index,
+                            'fragment_content_type': fragment_content_type,
                         })
                         if not append_fragment(decrypt_fragment(fragment, self._read_fragment(ctx)), frag_index, ctx):
                             return False

yt_dlp/downloader/hls.py

@@ -15,9 +15,17 @@ from ..utils import (
     traverse_obj,
     update_url_query,
     urljoin,
+    YoutubeDLError,
 )
 from ..utils._utils import _request_dump_filename
 
+IMAGE_CLOAKING_HEADER_LENGTHS = {
+    'image/png': 8,
+    'image/bmp': 2,
+    'image/jpg': 4,
+    'image/jpeg': 4,
+}
+
 
 class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
     """
@@ -407,3 +415,22 @@ class HlsFD(FragmentFD):
                     ctx, fragments, info_dict, pack_func=pack_fragment, finish_func=fin_fragments)
         else:
             return self.download_and_append_fragments(ctx, fragments, info_dict)
+
+    def _image_cloaking_stripper(self, ctx, frag_content, fragment_image_cloaking):
+        content_type = ctx.get('fragment_content_type')
+        bl = (
+            fragment_image_cloaking.get(content_type)
+            or IMAGE_CLOAKING_HEADER_LENGTHS.get(content_type)
+        )
+        if bl:
+            return frag_content[bl:]
+        raise YoutubeDLError(f'Unknown length to strip for fragment type of {content_type}')
+
+    def _append_fragment(self, ctx, frag_content):
+        if self.ydl.params.get('fragment_image_cloaking') is None:
+            processed_frag_content = frag_content
+        else:
+            processed_frag_content = self._image_cloaking_stripper(
+                ctx, frag_content, self.ydl.params['fragment_image_cloaking'])
+
+        super()._append_fragment(ctx, processed_frag_content)

yt_dlp/downloader/http.py

@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ class HttpFD(FileDownloader):
                 # doing auto decompression. (See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/6176)
                 data_len = None
 
+            # The content type might be not video due to image cloaking.
+            info_dict['fragment_content_type'] = ctx.data.headers.get('Content-Type')
+
             # Range HTTP header may be ignored/unsupported by a webserver
             # (e.g. extractor/scivee.py, extractor/bambuser.py).
             # However, for a test we still would like to download just a piece of a file.

yt_dlp/options.py

@@ -1192,6 +1192,11 @@ def create_parser():
         '--sleep-subtitles', metavar='SECONDS',
         dest='sleep_interval_subtitles', default=0, type=int,
         help='Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download')
+    workarounds.add_option(
+        '--fragment-image-cloaking', metavar='MIME:BYTES_LENGTH[,...]',
+        dest='fragment_image_cloaking', type=str,
+        help=('Wheather strip out at the begining up to the length of the image cloaking signature. '
+              'Set auto to use predefined lengths based on fragment content type.'))
 
     verbosity = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Verbosity and Simulation Options')
     verbosity.add_option(