Downloading from tv4.se not possible any more

[jeekl]

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

% youtube-dl --verbose http://www.tv4.se/kalla-fakta/klipp/kalla-fakta-5-english-subtitles-2491650
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.tv4.se/kalla-fakta/klipp/kalla-fakta-5-english-subtitles-2491650']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.11.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.7.3-040703-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.1.3-1, avprobe 3.1.3-1, ffmpeg 3.1.3-1, ffprobe 3.1.3-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TV4] 2491650: Downloading video info JSON
[TV4] 2491650: Downloading sources JSON
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated and unable to properly mux separate video and audio files, youtube-dl will download single file media. Update avconv to version 10-0 or newer to fix this.
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://progdwnl.tv4.se/mp4root/2013-11-25/kalla_fakta_giftvin_engt_2491650_T6MP425_.mp4?token=1473850470_b9f1844515e6c421c2e3e24ac6e69b6f'
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1696, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1638, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 354, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 58, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1998, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1004, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

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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):

• http://www.tv4play.se/program/nyhetsmorgon?video_id=3524012
• http://www.tv4.se/nyhetsmorgon/klipp/strage-hajpar-nya-south-park-3521852
• http://www.tv4.se/kalla-fakta/klipp/kalla-fakta-5-english-subtitles-2491650

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Support for tv4.se was added as per #2103 but there seems to have been a regression or a change on tv4.ses side, meaning downloading is not possible any more.