Downloading movie from YouTube gives "Failed to download MPD manifest" and 404; movie does not play

[joshtriplett]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_CqqjOPDc']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.18.0-2-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.3-1, ffprobe 4.0.3-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 5T_CqqjOPDc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 5T_CqqjOPDc: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] 5T_CqqjOPDc: Refetching age-gated info webpage
[youtube] 5T_CqqjOPDc: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: [youtube] 5T_CqqjOPDc: Skipping DASH manifest: ExtractorError(u'Failed to download MPD manifest: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); 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.',)
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

YouTube recently made various movies available for free. For instance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_CqqjOPDc . Attempting to download that with youtube-dl produces the above output, and the resulting downloaded file seems corrupted after the initial opening logo.

[joshtriplett]

That's a rather opaque bug closure. Could you elaborate, please?

Is this something youtube-dl can't fix? Or is there some other issue about this that I didn't find?

[Hrxn]

Nope, no other issue yet as far as I know. You came to the right spot.

Will or can it be fixed? Good question. I don't know, depends on the DRM used or how it is implemented (Is it Widevine?).

But this feature (full movies) is still very new on YT, right? Not surprising that they use a new mechanism here.

[Fabian42]

How would that make it not a bug?

Is this report covered by #1774?

[antdude]

Ditto. I was trying to download a few videos from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHPTxTxtC0ibVZrT2_WKWUl2SAxsKuKwx. :(