ndr.de: Unable to download f4m manifest

[svenl]

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$ youtube-dl https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Die-Geschichte-eines-Abends,abend156.html --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Die-Geschichte-eines-Abends,abend156.html', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.12.14
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-17.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ndr] Die-Geschichte-eines-Abends: Downloading webpage
[ndr:embed] abend156: Downloading JSON metadata
[ndr:embed] abend156: Downloading f4m manifest
ERROR: Unable to download f4m manifest: 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 506, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2196, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

A show streamable on ndr.de (or downloadable via vavideo.de) is not available via youtube-dl.
Problem happens on the show page (https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Die-Geschichte-eines-Abends,sendung712356.html) as with the show in the mediathek (https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Die-Geschichte-eines-Abends,abend156.html)

[sleske]

Yes, the extractor for ndr.de seems to be broken. The two internal extractor tests also fail ("Unable to extract embed URL").

[adrianheine]

For reference, this was fixed in 310ea46.

[sleske]

And, also for reference, the other issue (of which this is a duplicate): #15203.