Unexpected 404 on format 22 of a youtube video

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', '22', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASaRFMx3Hg']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.01
[debug] Python version 3.6.7 (CPython) - Linux-5.0.2-050002-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading video info webpage
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r7---sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?lmt=1503617725171372&requiressl=yes&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpcm2cms%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&initcwndbps=2396250&expire=1554272795&key=yt6&fvip=2&mv=m&pl=22&mt=1554251074&ms=au%2Crdu&id=o-ALmiltFlAyGvzSb48oR6jhe05d1JsHUKIDJfDuFudltW&ei=u_2jXNPyMqCDmLAP5-CPsAc&mn=sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe%2Csn-aigl6ned&source=youtube&mm=31%2C29&ip=*myIP*&c=WEB&ratebypass=yes&itag=22&pcm2cms=yes&dur=1477.810&mime=video%2Fmp4&signature=B9015AE42BEBD188E990268583B6288208933DF5.C01C493A3A00C6E23AC051A5A7AFA72792EDF97E&ipbits=0'
[download] Destination: $8000 PC Upgrade-FASaRFMx3Hg.mp4
[download]   0.5% of 153.64MiB at  2.56MiB/s ETA 00:59[download] Got server HTTP error: Downloaded 755154 bytes, expected 161103523 bytes. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1913, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1852, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 364, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 341, in real_download
    establish_connection()
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 109, in establish_connection
    ctx.data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/home/simon/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2225, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, 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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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASaRFMx3Hg) fails with the above 404 error only on format 22. I have tried several other formats and they work as expected.

It successfully downloads the first chunk, but fails on the second.

List of formats for reference:

$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASaRFMx3Hg
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading video info webpage
[info] Available formats for FASaRFMx3Hg:
format code  extension  resolution note
249          webm       audio only DASH audio   55k , opus @ 50k, 7.34MiB
250          webm       audio only DASH audio   68k , opus @ 70k, 8.74MiB
171          webm       audio only DASH audio  100k , vorbis@128k, 14.99MiB
251          webm       audio only DASH audio  124k , opus @160k, 16.08MiB
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 22.38MiB
278          webm       256x144    144p  100k , webm container, vp9, 25fps, video only, 14.57MiB
160          mp4        256x144    144p  111k , avc1.4d400c, 25fps, video only, 7.48MiB
242          webm       426x240    240p  225k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 23.09MiB
133          mp4        426x240    240p  234k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 13.62MiB
243          webm       640x360    360p  410k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 42.66MiB
134          mp4        640x360    360p  634k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 34.69MiB
244          webm       854x480    480p  767k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 73.81MiB
135          mp4        854x480    480p 1224k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 70.30MiB
247          webm       1280x720   720p 1552k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 159.93MiB
136          mp4        1280x720   720p 2411k , avc1.4d401f, 25fps, video only, 131.35MiB
248          webm       1920x1080  1080p 2689k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 314.74MiB
137          mp4        1920x1080  1080p 4367k , avc1.640028, 25fps, video only, 354.47MiB
271          webm       2560x1440  1440p 8899k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 1.03GiB
313          webm       3840x2160  2160p 18486k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 2.81GiB
43           webm       640x360    medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 111.24MiB
18           mp4        640x360    medium  473k , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 83.34MiB
22           mp4        1280x720   hd720  872k , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (44100Hz) (best)

This is what the HTTP requests are:
(I have replaced my IP address with *myIP*)

$ youtube-dl --print-traffic -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASaRFMx3Hg
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading webpage
send: b'GET /watch?v=FASaRFMx3Hg&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1&bpctr=9999999999&disable_polymer=true HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nCookie: PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
header: Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Cache-Control: no-cache
header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
header: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:07 GMT
header: Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Set-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Wed, 03-Apr-2019 01:08:07 GMT
header: Set-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Wed, 03-Apr-2019 01:08:07 GMT
header: Set-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Wed, 03-Apr-2019 01:08:07 GMT
header: Set-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Wed, 03-Apr-2019 01:08:07 GMT
header: Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,44,43,39"
header: Connection: close
header: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
[youtube] FASaRFMx3Hg: Downloading video info webpage
send: b'GET /get_video_info?video_id=FASaRFMx3Hg&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en&el=info&sts=17984&disable_polymer=true HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nCookie: PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en; GPS=1; YSC=ydo_Jyv9hlk; s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=QBRnjgYv00k\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
header: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
header: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Cache-Control: no-store
header: Content-Length: 50
header: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:08 GMT
header: Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Set-Cookie: s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; path=/; domain=.youtube.com
header: Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,44,43,39"
header: Connection: close
send: b'GET /get_video_info?video_id=FASaRFMx3Hg&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en&el=embedded&sts=17984&disable_polymer=true HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.youtube.com\r\nCookie: PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en; GPS=1; YSC=ydo_Jyv9hlk; s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=QBRnjgYv00k\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
header: Cache-Control: no-store
header: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
header: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
header: Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:08 GMT
header: Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
header: X-XSS-Protection: 0
header: Set-Cookie: s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; path=/; domain=.youtube.com
header: Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,44,43,39"
header: Connection: close
header: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
send: b'GET /videoplayback?id=o-AFGrgooQb4iWtEKXnOZSxc4M1B2FL0FMELLQwAwzybt9&itag=22&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31,29&mn=sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe,sn-aigzrn7k&ms=au,rdu&mv=m&pcm2cms=yes&pl=22&ei=bwCkXN3yKY7jhAeaqqlg&initcwndbps=2373750&mime=video/mp4&ratebypass=yes&dur=1477.810&lmt=1503617725171372&mt=1554251808&fvip=2&c=WEB&ip=*myIP*&ipbits=0&expire=1554273487&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,ms,mv,pcm2cms,pl,ei,initcwndbps,mime,ratebypass,dur,lmt&signature=0D7131B2DAF3C56D7CE96DD2C75BBCBB1821EC45.D8066AB716A51B27ECD566285651AD548BEB4F16&key=yt8 HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Encoding: identity\r\nHost: r7---sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe.googlevideo.com\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Last-Modified: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:35:25 GMT
header: Content-Type: video/mp4
header: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:08 GMT
header: Expires: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:08 GMT
header: Cache-Control: private, max-age=21299
header: Accept-Ranges: bytes
header: Content-Length: 161103523
header: Connection: close
header: Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,44,43,39"
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Server: gvs 1.0
[download] Destination: $8000 PC Upgrade-FASaRFMx3Hg.mp4
[download]   0.5% of 153.64MiB at  3.67MiB/s ETA 00:41[download] Got server HTTP error: Downloaded 755154 bytes, expected 161103523 bytes. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
send: b'GET /videoplayback?id=o-AFGrgooQb4iWtEKXnOZSxc4M1B2FL0FMELLQwAwzybt9&itag=22&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31,29&mn=sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe,sn-aigzrn7k&ms=au,rdu&mv=m&pcm2cms=yes&pl=22&ei=bwCkXN3yKY7jhAeaqqlg&initcwndbps=2373750&mime=video/mp4&ratebypass=yes&dur=1477.810&lmt=1503617725171372&mt=1554251808&fvip=2&c=WEB&ip=*myIP*&ipbits=0&expire=1554273487&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,ms,mv,pcm2cms,pl,ei,initcwndbps,mime,ratebypass,dur,lmt&signature=0D7131B2DAF3C56D7CE96DD2C75BBCBB1821EC45.D8066AB716A51B27ECD566285651AD548BEB4F16&key=yt8 HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Encoding: identity\r\nHost: r7---sn-8pgbpohxqp5-auoe.googlevideo.com\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nRange: bytes=755154-\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n'
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n'
header: Last-Modified: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:26:10 GMT
header: Content-Type: text/plain
header: Content-Length: 0
header: Connection: close
header: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:38:09 GMT
header: Server: gvs 1.0
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

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