CTV News Canada - Video plays in browser, but youtube-dl gives 404?

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404 not found error in youtube-dl attempting to download from CTV Canada. No account needed and not likely to be a geoblock issue, as video does play in U.S. Not sure if problem with Flash video container or if I'm entering the wrong URL for the video extraction. Extended description below.

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C:\>youtube-dl -v "http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justin-trudeau-man-who-would-be-pm-discusses-his-past-his-politics-1.2059548" --ffmpeg-location "C:\Program Files (x86)\youtube-dl\ffmpeg\bin"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justin-trudeau-man-who-would-be-pm-discusses-his-past-his-politics-1.2059548', '--ffmpeg-location','C:\\Program Files (x86)\\youtube-dl\\ffmpeg\\bin']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.09
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-86175-g64ea4d1, ffprobe N-86175-g64ea4d1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[9c9media] 5: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpf7t6lw0k\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 502, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpf7t6lw0k\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2166, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
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<end of log>

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• Single video: http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justin-trudeau-man-who-would-be-pm-discusses-his-past-his-politics-1.2059548

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Hi, can you help me grab a video from channel CTV News in Canada? I know it's not a geoblock issue, as I'm in the U.S. and can watch the video in the web browser. It appears to be embedded in some kind of proprietary Flash Video widget or container. But it keeps freezing up and hiccupping, so I want to download to watch the program offline.

So far, I have tried using various Firefox add-ons, like Video Download Helper and DownThemAll AntiContainer, and looking through the page source, but nothing helps. I even tried playing it in fullscreen and recording the screen using a screen recorder program, but as the video itself keeps glitching (either due to something wonky about Flash Video or just because I have slow Internet), the recorded video is incomplete and unwatchable.

Is there a different URL I should be entering in youtube-dl itself? The one I put in is here:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justin-trudeau-man-who-would-be-pm-discusses-his-past-his-politics-1.2059548

I've included the verbose log of what happens when I try to download it. Not sure why I'm getting a 404 error, as the video does still exist.

[RingoTheDog]

Kinda a 1/2 solution for you....

Click the i in a circle icon (Show Info) and you will get the direct link to the video:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=469865

Youtube-dl can download from the direct link

however the ffmpeg merge failed for me...had to manually merge two files myself:

C:>youtube-dl.py http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=469865
[9c9media] 469865: Downloading JSON metadata
[9c9media] 469865: Downloading JSON metadata
[9c9media] 452957: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: W5: Trudeau II, part one
[9c9media] playlist W5: Trudeau II, part one: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[9c9media:stack] 810597: Downloading m3u8 information
[9c9media:stack] 810597: Downloading f4m manifest
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 222
[download] Destination: W5 - Trudeau II, part one-810597.fhls-1856.mp4
[download] 100% of 203.48MiB in 02:43
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 222
[download] Destination: W5 - Trudeau II, part one-810597.faac_96000-English.mp4
[download] 100% of 10.16MiB in 00:49
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "W5 - Trudeau II, part one-810597.mp4"
ERROR: Conversion failed!