Downloading from ivi.tv/ivi.ru doesn't work

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--hls-prefer-native', '--no-check-certificate', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36', '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=720][height>=360][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.ivi.tv/watch/33560/', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp1251, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.05
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2, ffprobe 3.4.2, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[generic] 33560: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.ivi.ru/watch/33560
[ivi] 33560: Downloading video JSON
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 472, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 462, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 803, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 864, in process_ie_result
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 507, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\ivi.py", line 92, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 864, in _download_json
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 842, in _download_json_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 632, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 604, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 735, in <lambda>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp5xdqinp2\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 3624, in proxy_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 763, in proxy_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 462, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1113, in do_request_
TypeError: POST data should be bytes or an iterable of bytes. It cannot be of type str.

[dstftw]

> py -3.4 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py https://www.ivi.tv/watch/33560/
[generic] 33560: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.ivi.ru/watch/33560
[ivi] 33560: Downloading video JSON
[ivi] 33560: Downloading webpage
[download] Resuming download at byte 100080277
[download] Destination: Брат 2-33560.mp4
[download]   4.2% of 2.41GiB at 11.00MiB/s ETA 03:35
ERROR: Interrupted by user