Hotstar downloads are not working anymore (not a Geo-restriction problem).

[xabayx]

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

C:\Users\dl\Downloads>youtube-dl -v https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/radhakrishn/s-1695/the-classic-love-saga/1000221006
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/radhakrishn/s-1695/the-classic-love-saga/1000221006']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-12-02-968c4cb, ffprobe git-2019-12-02-968c4cb
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[hotstar] 1000221006: Downloading webpage
[hotstar] 1000221006: Downloading JSON metadata
[hotstar] 1000221006: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://hses4.akamaized.net/videos/hotstarint/forceup/1260025161/1586341016779/fcc2ab35a8cfbd1315af85b0085f1689/media-8/index.m3u8'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 8
[download] Destination: The Classic Love Saga-1000221006.mp4
[download] 100% of 1.02MiB in 00:13
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams "file:The Classic Love Saga-1000221006.mp4"
[ffmpeg] Fixing malformed AAC bitstream in "The Classic Love Saga-1000221006.mp4"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:The Classic Love Saga-1000221006.mp4" -c copy -f mp4 "-bsf:a" aac_adtstoasc "file:The Classic Love Saga-1000221006.temp.mp4"```


## Description
Hi, 
this issue: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/24707
got closed because hotstar is geo-restricted.
BUT the Geo Restriction in this case is not the problem.
I've  using different VPN servers since some months (so far I've tried with 3 different working VPN servers) and I am being able to open and watch the videos directly with my browser and one could also download with youtube-dl until it just stopped working some days ago :
youtube-dl only downloads now a small video (5 seconds long) with the following text in it:
"This version of Hotstar is no longer supported.
Please download the latest version from the App Store. If you are unable to view content even after upgrading your app, please uninstall and reinstall the app.".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards :)

[dstftw]

I've already pointed out: out must provide proxy/VPN for any work on this.

[xabayx]

I've already pointed out: out must provide proxy/VPN for any work on this.

Thank you for the fast answer @dstftw!
Sorry, I don't understand, could you kindly explain how to provide the VPN? My windows pc is already globally connected through VPN as I always did with youtube-dl.
Thank you in advance :)