Vodlocker doesn't work half of the time

[tastytea]

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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:

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 --get-url http://vodlocker.com/lhtpwteyxhea
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--get-url', 'http://vodlocker.com/lhtpwteyxhea']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.4.32-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Video lhtpwteyxhea does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/vodlocker.py", line 36, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError('Video %s does not exist' % video_id, expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Video lhtpwteyxhea does not exist

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Sometimes vodlocker links work, sometimes not. Even if I use the same URL. When trying to watch a Video in my browser, I often get the message: "The file was removed by administrator". When I reload the page, the video appears.

[sa7mon]

This seems like a VodLocker issue. If the video was truly removed by an administrator, youtube-dl won't help you.