Error with youtube-dl with video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc

[johnmcauley]

Hey guys,

I am using the latest version: youtube-dl is up-to-date (2013.10.23.2).

The server is in the states.

But youtube-dl is throwing the following error with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc (using verbose):
Removing the -f 34 flag works though.

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youtube-dl -o ./test."%(ext)s" -f 34 -x --audio-format 'wav' -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-o', './test.%(ext)s', '-f', '34', '-x', '--audio-format', 'wav', '-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.10.23.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.8.13-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: 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 complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 342, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 121, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1472, in _real_extract
video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1238, in _get_video_url_list
raise ExtractorError(u'requested format not available')
ExtractorError: 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 complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

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Any ideas?

Thanks,

j

[phihag]

The video in question is not available in format 34:

$ youtube-dl --list-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Extracting video information
Available formats:
18      :       mp4     [360x640]
43      :       webm    [360x640]
5       :       flv     [240x400]
36      :       3gp     [240x320]
17      :       3gp     [144x176]
133     :       mp4     [240p] (DASH Video)
160     :       mp4     [192p] (DASH Video)
141     :       m4a     [256k] (DASH Audio)
172     :       webm    [256k] (DASH Audio)
140     :       m4a     [128k] (DASH Audio)
171     :       webm    [128k] (DASH Audio)
139     :       m4a     [48k] (DASH Audio)

Therefore, everything is working just fine - you explicitly requested format 34 and no other. To request the first of multiple formats, pass in something like -f 34/18/mp4/best. We should mark this error as expected.

[johnmcauley]

Great, thanks for the reply.

On 28 October 2013 10:44, Philipp Hagemeister notifications@github.comwrote:

The video in question is not available in format 34:

$ youtube-dl --list-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6hzrDeceEKc: Extracting video information
Available formats:
18 : mp4 [360x640]
43 : webm [360x640]
5 : flv [240x400]
36 : 3gp [240x320]
17 : 3gp [144x176]
133 : mp4 [240p](DASH Video)
160 : mp4 [192p](DASH Video)
141 : m4a [256k](DASH Audio)
172 : webm [256k](DASH Audio)
140 : m4a [128k](DASH Audio)
171 : webm [128k](DASH Audio)
139 : m4a [48k](DASH Audio)

Therefore, everything is working just fine - you explicitly requested
format 34 and no other. To request the first of multiple formats, pass in
something like -f 34/18/mp4/best. We should mark this error as expected.

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