Downloading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEb6Hy9FHY only gives 1,282 bytes.

[antdude]

youtube-dl -U

youtube-dl is up-to-date (2013.11.15.1)

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEb6Hy9FHY
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEb6Hy9FHY']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.11.15.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: JANSKI BEEEATS - Dumbstep-0cEb6Hy9FHY.mp4
[download] 100% of 82.63MiB in 00:00
ERROR: content too short (expected 86642694 bytes and served 1282)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 688, in process_info
success = self.fd._do_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 600, in _do_download
raise ContentTooShortError(byte_counter, int(data_len))
ContentTooShortError

Same for cclive, clive, and movgrab. :(

Thank you in advance. :)

[Elite]

This is new, YT is now redirecting the first url.

[antdude]

Elite: I guess YouTube is trying to make these downloaders break. I wonder how many videos there are like these.

[xanadu]

looks like they are removing 720p, try dash formats

[phihag]

Lay off the conspiracy theories, this seems to have been a temporary outage. It works fine now, at least for me:

$ youtube-dl  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEb6Hy9FHY
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: JANSKI BEEEATS - Dumbstep-0cEb6Hy9FHY.mp4
[download] 100% of 82.63MiB in 00:09

Therefore, I'm closing this issue now. If the problem persists, please comment. In general, you can try another format with -f (list with -F).

[antdude]

Thanks phihag! It does work now:
$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEb6Hy9FHY
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0cEb6Hy9FHY: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: JANSKI BEEEATS - Dumbstep-0cEb6Hy9FHY.mp4
[download] 100% of 82.63MiB in 00:47

That's a weird outage because I was able to stream in my Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.22 web browser with its latest Flash player plugin when I couldn't download it.

[phihag]

Were you using the same format in the browser and youtube-dl? As commented above, the web player will usually use DASH formats nowadays.

[antdude]

I have no idea. I was using whatever defaults with the URL (copied and pasted). If I run into it again, then I will try that but how do I do that? What are DASH formats?