Youtube: Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found.

[frispete]

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
• 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

$ youtube-dl --verbose eCLp7zodUiI
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'eCLp7zodUiI']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.8.3 (CPython) - Linux-5.7.5-5-default-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3, ffprobe 4.2.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] eCLp7zodUiI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] eCLp7zodUiI: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/dash/expire/1593378271/ei/f7H4XtGVM5ncgAfyz5S4Cw/ip/95.89.3.2/id/7822e9ef3a1d5222/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/playback_host/r5---sn-4g5e6nl6.googlevideo.com/mh/Y6/mm/31%2C26/mn/sn-4g5e6nl6%2Csn-f5f7lnl7/ms/au%2Conr/mv/m/mvi/4/pl/24/hfr/all/as/fmp4_audio_clear%2Cwebm_audio_clear%2Cwebm2_audio_clear%2Cfmp4_sd_hd_clear%2Cwebm2_sd_hd_clear/initcwndbps/1792500/vprv/1/mt/1593356615/fvip/5/keepalive/yes/itag/0/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Chfr%2Cas%2Cvprv%2Citag/sig/AOq0QJ8wRQIgZLIKbGsZyjERIdfTGnggmGPCl2_NsIsWiEd-1wy2tD0CIQChQfVQtyfZG_ui8Ytkq3W35FSbUFRo05dKHbl9QrrxKg%3D%3D/lsparams/playback_host%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps/lsig/AG3C_xAwRQIgWsPFQwZshUtYDLAB21yERjP2sVPi2xUEGfuHmhbYQ-cCIQCsX_YemIFvmLr1DiHb04mhby3vch3Ern1APrRYYscf2A%3D%3D'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 35
[download] Destination: Ministry of Silly Walks-eCLp7zodUiI.f242.webm
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 1 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 2 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 3 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 4 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 5 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 6 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 7 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 8 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 9 of 10)...
[download] Got server HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. Retrying fragment 1 (attempt 10 of 10)...
ERROR: giving up after 10 fragment retries
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 474, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 464, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2018, in download
    res = self.extract_info(
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 808, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 863, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1644, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1920, in process_info
    partial_success = dl(fname, new_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1865, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 366, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/dash.py", line 75, in real_download
    self.report_error('giving up after %s fragment retries' % fragment_retries)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 165, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 625, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 587, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

Description

Cannot download this famous clip. Changes since 2010.06.16.1 doesn't indicate anything touching this area.

Looks like another YT SNAFU.

[dstftw]

Server side issue for format 242.

[frispete]

Mind briefly elaborating, what

Server side issue for format 242.

actually means to a casual user?

[frispete]

Scratch that, obviously, webm is the culprit. -f mp4 at least load some video here. Sorry for bothering.