problem with a certain youtube video

[shirkdarmstadt]

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Cannot use best option to download 720p version of video...has always worked before. Download starts then fails with "content too short" or "html server error". Only is happening with this specific video.

youtube-dl -v -f "best[height<=720]" tdHGBzlRPK8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-f', u'best[height<=720]', u'tdHGBzlRPK8']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.1.1503-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.3.4, ffprobe 2.3.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] tdHGBzlRPK8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] tdHGBzlRPK8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] tdHGBzlRPK8: Extracting video information
[youtube] tdHGBzlRPK8: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] tdHGBzlRPK8: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r1---sn-p5qs7n7l.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mime=video%2Fmp4&requiressl=yes&lmt=1485313592970286&ei=3NedWI2YIcKf8gSz7rigAw&id=o-AHBXLnRjRenMOdxKNlpeJ8sQDIDOBJ8c8IilIjWjQdDB&mn=sn-p5qs7n7l&mm=31&upn=Q8piLBV8ink&ip=72.45.62.4&key=yt6&ms=au&mv=m&mt=1486739372&ipbits=0&initcwndbps=1347500&signature=48516513087F23370409B9E0E4940663738C655C.9F95FC89E911012CD98877635793C8B13CC531C7&ratebypass=yes&expire=1486761020&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&itag=22&pl=21&dur=415.474&source=youtube'
[download] Resuming download at byte 8388644
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 retries
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 61, in real_download
data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2006, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

[dstftw]

Duplicate of #3721.