VEVO downloading broken

[nyuszika7h]

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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 ```):

C:\Users\nyuszika7h>youtube-dl -v https://www.vevo.com/watch/sabrina-carpenter/On-Purpose-(Audio-Only)/USH5V1622757
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-f', 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '--write-sub', '--sub-format', 'srt', '--convert-subs', 'srt']
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.vevo.com/watch/sabrina-carpenter/On-Purpose-(Audio-Only)/USH5V1622757']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.01
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-10-10.0.10586-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80129-ga1953d4, ffprobe N-80129-ga1953d4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Vevo] USH5V1622757: Downloading video info
WARNING: Unable to download info: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
[Vevo] Retrieving oauth token
ERROR: Unable to retrieve oauth token: <urlopen error [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> (caused by URLError(ConnectionRefusedError(10061, 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it', None, 10061, None),))
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 394, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1985, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 465, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 483, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 443, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 838, in http_open
    req)
  File "c:\program files\python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1242, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Downloading from VEVO seems to be broken, it just says "Connection refused".

[nyuszika7h]

Never mind, seems to be an issue on my side. If I disable the smart DNS proxy and proxy the entire connection through the US, it works.