DailyMotion downloaded video broken

[fireattack]

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C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop>youtube-dl -v http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5
7z7rb -f http-240 >a.txt
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57z7rb', '-
f', 'http-320']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp936, fs mbcs, out cp936, pref cp936
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.02.11
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It seems downloading certain videos from DailyMotion always ends up a broken video that can't be played.

This is no error during the download, but the result is a broken video: I can only
the first few minutes.
Video in question: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57z7rb

I tried several times with different quality (http-720, http-480, http-380), all same results.

I also tried different players (MPC, VLC, even Chrome), so I am pretty positive the video is actually broken, not just my player can't play it.

[yan12125]

Format http-1080 plays fine in VLC 2.2.4, MPV 0.23.0, Chromium 56.0.2924.87 and Firefox 51.0.1. It might be a system problem if multiple players are broken.

[fireattack]

I didn't try 1080p. Would you mind to try again with http-720, http-480, http-380 as I mentioned?
Also just to make sure, did you try to play it to later minutes (like 20+min)? The beginning is fine but as soon as you seek to 10 or 20 min, it's broken

I definitely will try http-1080 as well now and give an update later.

Thanks!

[fireattack]

Hi,

I just confirmed that http-1080 indeed works fine. So the problem may be restricted to lower quality?

[fireattack]

Weird.. now everything is back to normal. I guess yesterday DailyMotion's server had some problem, then.

Thanks