ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[ericzutter]

When I download video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8SZLXIS1g, He start the download at full speed of my bandwidth (=10 MBytes/second), until it stops with error "ContentTooShortError". When I retry the download I receive error "Did not get any data blocks".

C:>youtube-dl.exe --version
2013.09.24.2

C:>youtube-dl.exe -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8SZLXIS1g
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8SZLXIS1g']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.24.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Madagascar - Perle Noire - Love Aminao - Modern Fun - 1080p for Google Play-sQ8SZLXIS1g.mp4
[download] 100% of 140.43MiB in 00:1563MiB/s ETA 00:09306
ERROR: content too short (expected 147246791 bytes and served 90177588)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 559, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\FileDownloader.pyo", line 577, in _do_download
ContentTooShortError

C:>youtube-dl.exe -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8SZLXIS1g
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8SZLXIS1g']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.09.24.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] sQ8SZLXIS1g: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 90177588

ERROR: Did not get any data blocks
File "main.py", line 18, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 687, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 671, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 584, in download
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 349, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 432, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 379, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 559, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\FileDownloader.pyo", line 572, in _do_download
File "youtube_dl\FileDownloader.pyo", line 165, in report_error
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 227, in report_error
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 194, in trouble

[dmullinax]

I have a similar problem with Ubuntu's ubuntu-dl with this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA

using the command

youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA"

and got these errors:

"ERROR: content too short (expected 7657301 bytes and served 1313)"

and

"ERROR: Did not get any data blocks."

After some research, I think it has something to do with a so-called "Google DNS networked filesystem internal error" whatever that means. Anyways here's what I did to get this to work.

1. Tried this: youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA" -F
   This gave me more information about the file types.

2. youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA" -f 34
   Same errors

3. youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA" -f 18
   Same errors

4. youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtBQH2PIKA" -f 43
   This worked!

File was created as a webm file. Finally I opened audacity, and converted it into an MP3. Hope this somehow helps others who are having the same problem.