unable to extract video duration

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I am not able to download a streaming youtube video, WARNING: unable to extract video duration;

here is the output

youtube-dl --verbose -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5KDDcBFcE&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
[1] 4074
[2] 4075
[2]+ Done feature=youtu.be
System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-F', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5KDDcBFcE']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.18.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-18.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] tj5KDDcBFcE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] tj5KDDcBFcE: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] tj5KDDcBFcE: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: unable to extract video duration; 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.
ERROR: no conn, hlsvp or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 760, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1828, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError('no conn, hlsvp or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info')
ExtractorError: no conn, hlsvp or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; 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.