YouTube download - content too short error

[Tearnote]

When I try to download this particular video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsBUjsuViA , youtube-dl consistently throws a content too short error, always at the same byte. The video plays fine in browser, all other videos I tried downloading from the same playlist downloaded correctly.

tear_dr% youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsBUjsuViA" 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsBUjsuViA']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.08
[debug] Python version 3.3.3 - Linux-3.12.6-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch-Arch-Linux
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Zelda - Majora's Mask - Part 21 [Spinny Spiders]-ONsBUjsuViA.mp4
[download] 100% of 74.18MiB in 00:00
ERROR: content too short (expected 77780892 bytes and served 2492)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 923, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 907, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 290, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 172, in real_download
    raise ContentTooShortError(byte_counter, int(data_len))
youtube_dl.utils.ContentTooShortError: (2492, 77780892)

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This is the output of trying to resume the download from the .part file:

tear_dr% youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsBUjsuViA"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsBUjsuViA']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.08
[debug] Python version 3.3.3 - Linux-3.12.6-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch-Arch-Linux
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 2492
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 retries
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 160, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 761, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 751, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 952, in download
    self.extract_info(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 537, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 741, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 923, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 907, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 290, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 96, in real_download
    self.report_error(u'giving up after %s retries' % retries)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 143, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 386, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 353, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

tear_dr% 

[Tearnote]

This has been fixed, although I can't find the commit that solved it. Closing.

[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Extracting video information
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] ONsBUjsuViA: Downloading js player vfln8xPyM
[download] Destination: Zelda - Majora's Mask - Part 21 [Spinny 
Spiders]-ONsBUjsuViA.mp4
[download] 100% of 74.18MiB in 00:54

[phihag]

"Content TOO short" is a server-side error by YouTube. Sorry, we should clarify that, and/or retry after it.

[Tearnote]

That's pretty strange, I tried every day for a week before it worked and the working try was right after an update to the latest git version.. Coincidence, I guess?