ERROR: Request Format is not available.

[marypan]

Hi,

Sometimes I need to download same youtube video in different clients at the same time. With youtube-dl.py, sometimes it works fine, but sometimes some clients are failed with "ERROR: request format is not available." Below is the detailed error trace:

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C:\wanoptexe>youtube-dl.py http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df6bxJ61McU -f 35 --ve
rbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df6bxJ61McU', '-f',
'35', '--verbose']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.10.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.1 - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] df6bxJ61McU: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] df6bxJ61McU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] df6bxJ61McU: Extracting video information
ERROR: requested format not available; please report this issue on https://yt-dl
.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its co
mplete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U
to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\wanoptexe\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 348, in extrac
t_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "C:\wanoptexe\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 117, in
extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "C:\wanoptexe\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1461,
in _real_extract
video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
File "C:\wanoptexe\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1236,
in _get_video_url_list
raise ExtractorError(u'requested format not available')
ExtractorError: requested format not available; please report this issue on http
s://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and inclu
de its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtub
e-dl -U to update.

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I have the latest youtube-dl.py, what could the issue be? Any fix for that?

Best Regards,
Mary

[jaimeMF]

Duplicate of #1578, basically Youtube sometimes doesn't serve all the available formats, the current solutions is to keep trying until it works.
Thanks for the report.