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[brendonanderson]

Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.07.30.1. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

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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:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

/tvdownload$ /usr/bin/youtube-dl -v -f best -o "Curious George - Georges Simple Siphon.mp4" "http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-400-2500k.m3u8"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-f', u'best', u'-o', u'Curious George - Georges Simple Siphon.mp4', u'http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-400-2500k.m3u8']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.30.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.16.0-67-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.20-6, avprobe 9.20-6, ffmpeg 3.3.1, ffprobe 3.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-400-2500k: Requesting header
[generic] 4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-400-2500k: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-2500k.m3u8'
[download] Destination: Curious George - Georges Simple Siphon.mp4
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.
[debug] avconv command line: avconv -y -loglevel verbose -headers 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
' -i 'http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-2500k.m3u8' -c copy -f mp4 'file:Curious George - Georges Simple Siphon.mp4.part'
avconv version 9.20-6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+fdkaac, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
  built on Feb 13 2017 12:16:45 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3)
  configuration: --arch=amd64 --enable-pthreads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-version='6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+fdkaac' --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-bzlib --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-zlib --enable-gpl --enable-swscale --enable-libcdio --enable-x11grab --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-nonfree --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-shared --disable-static
  avcodec     configuration: --arch=amd64 --enable-pthreads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-version='6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+fdkaac' --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-bzlib --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-zlib --enable-gpl --enable-swscale --enable-libcdio --enable-x11grab --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-nonfree --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-version3 --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-version3
  libavutil     52.  3. 0 / 52.  3. 0
  libavcodec    54. 35. 1 / 54. 35. 1
  libavformat   54. 20. 4 / 54. 20. 4
  libavdevice   53.  2. 0 / 53.  2. 0
  libavfilter    3.  3. 0 /  3.  3. 0
  libavresample  1.  0. 1 /  1.  0. 1
  libswscale     2.  1. 1 /  2.  1. 1
[mp3 @ 0x1191200] Format detected only with low score of 1, misdetection possible!
[mp3 @ 0x11977c0] Header missing
[mp3 @ 0x1191200] Could not find codec parameters (Audio: mp3, 0 channels, s16p)
[mp3 @ 0x1191200] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-2500k.m3u8: could not find codec parameters


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 465, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 455, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1956, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 787, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 841, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1599, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1863, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1805, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 361, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py", line 57, in real_download
    self.get_basename(), retval))
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 163, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 604, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 566, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

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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):

/usr/bin/youtube-dl -v -f best -o "Curious George - Georges Simple Siphon.mp4" "http://kids.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/curious-george/954fa637-5c52-46f3-8c72-c2bd4b4a4118/1000015568/hd-1080p-mezzanine-16x9/4ctd8ps0_cuge805b-ep_m1080-16x9-hls-400-2500k.m3u8"

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[dstftw]

Remove avconv.