YouTube - Unable to download - HTTP status 404, but video exists

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

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: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:/Program Files/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxXBMVXU-U']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89832-g07a96b6251, ffprobe N-89832-g07a96b6251
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] xyxXBMVXU-U: Downloading webpage
[youtube] xyxXBMVXU-U: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r2---sn-8p2hvcpax-cxbs.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?key=yt6&signature=240D0D272A284602153E346117ACE1D4A478BBD3.1BDA91456710510124B8D1FDDC605AF67BB082C5&requiressl=yes&lmt=1547359750236614&source=yt_otf&dur=0.000&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C160&ipbits=0&c=WEB&initcwndbps=662500&otfp=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&pcm2cms=yes&sparams=aitags%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cotf%2Cotfp%2Cpcm2cms%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&otf=1&id=o-AERYMjqlw6YKMKiVCgL6mAeIc84dp9nuQwJPzo9xIMbI&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-8p2hvcpax-cxbs%2Csn-nv47lnsk&keepalive=yes&pl=23&ip=REDACTED&ei=0AA7XLiWG5XTgAf8wq3YDQ&ms=au%2Crdu&mt=1547370597&mv=m&fvip=2&expire=1547392304&itag=135&ratebypass=yes'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1903, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1848, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 364, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 341, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpmxuexrxr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2212, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Exact command line: youtube-dl -v --ffmpeg-location "C:/Program Files/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxXBMVXU-U

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Works if FFmoeg is disabled. Other videos work with or without FFmpeg. This video doesn't work. And it plays fine in all browsers.