404 on youtube video with low view in (bestvideo/best)[height<=480] format

[ridowan007]

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$ youtube-dl -v -f '(bestvideo/best)[height<=480]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RORZDpPh8
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', '(bestvideo/best)[height<=480]', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RORZDpPh8']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.10
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-1072-aws-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] -3RORZDpPh8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] -3RORZDpPh8: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r1---sn-npoeen7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?dur=0.000&initcwndbps=1895000&ei=l3I9XOfDM43Ez7sP756JqAc&otf=1&expire=1547552503&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C137%2C160&sparams=aitags%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cotf%2Cotfp%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&source=yt_otf&signature=31D9EEE065B7EF647EA738CB9B4564508155DB06.2DFF7D68AA96C2E3E7BD4BEAE70CCB1429E9D6AC&c=WEB&otfp=1&key=yt6&lmt=1546584586917786&keepalive=yes&itag=135&fvip=1&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-npoeen7k%2Csn-npoe7ne6&mime=video%2Fmp4&id=o-AN5QOnS84tpUSWnQO9jopgtJHiPcKVJgLIba5JZRXyY_&pl=22&ipbits=0&ip=13.126.53.186&requiressl=yes&mt=1547530819&mv=m&ms=au%2Crdu&ratebypass=yes'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1909, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1848, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 341, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2212, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

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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=-3RORZDpPh8
• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzrmVT3IuD4

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

Some video(mostly with low view) can't be downloaded when specifying '(bestvideo/best)[height<=480]'. It seems those videos don't have different video link previously so bestvideo did not worked. But with /best option I can previously resort to link with both video and audio. But for some reason(a change in youtube.com I guess?) youtube-dl now try to download the video using a bestvideo link but problem is that link don't work. So it gets a 404. Removing [height<=480] seems work so it has a bestvideo link at higher resolution but not in lower ones.

The problem is also present in api mode from python.