This particular usteam.tv link returns ERROR: No video formats found;

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youtube-dl.exe -v "https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/118615043"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/118615043']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.02.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1, ffprobe 4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading JSON metadata
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading connection info
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading stream info
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading connection info (try 2)
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading stream info (try 2)
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading connection info (try 3)
[ustream] 118615043: Downloading stream info (try 3)
ERROR: No video formats found; 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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp6w61832c\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp6w61832c\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp6w61832c\build\youtube_dl\extractor\ustream.py", line 217, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp6w61832c\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1305, in _sort_formats
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; 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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This particular usteam.tv link youtube-dl.exe -v "https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/118615043"
returns ERROR: No video formats found;

I tried scienceteacher1972's solution from #13520
but does not find that work around to be working.
"But as soon as I started watching one of those videos with my browser, just a couple seconds of it, I was able to download them immediately."

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[michaellunsford]

I had the same problem. Employing the --user-agent parameter with my browser's agent setting got upstream to respond with a video.

Edit: Well, it worked once anyway. Back to the error again.
If it helps, my URL is https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/120807685