MTV Services download error

[pepoluan]

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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 ```):

% youtube-dl --verbose 'http://www.mtv.com/news/2887508/zootopia-directors-fandom-nick-judy-fanart/'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'--ffmpeg-location', u'/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.mtv.com/news/2887508/zootopia-directors-fandom-nick-judy-fanart/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - CYGWIN_NT-10.0-2.5.2-0.297-5-3-x86_64-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80256-g0a9e781, ffprobe N-80256-g0a9e781
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] zootopia-directors-fandom-nick-judy-fanart: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] zootopia-directors-fandom-nick-judy-fanart: Downloading webpage
[generic] zootopia-directors-fandom-nick-judy-fanart: Extracting information
[mtvservices:embedded] f1ef5427-f7e6-4fcf-a9ea-164f51f10d2a: Downloading XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 394, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1996, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I was just trying to download a video embedded in this page. It seems like youtube-dl successfully identified the embedded video and even the embedded video's provider, but for unclear reasons (to me) failed to follow through.

[yan12125]

@pepoluan Thanks for the report. Such MTVServices embedded videos will work again in the next version.