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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51Za9YcAYY
I've also tried it via Invidious with the same outcome.
I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version **2020.06.16.1, I've run the various methods to update it several times and can confirm it is the latest version.
I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser, No age restrictions, no weird exceptions, they work on all the sites I've tried, so regular youtube and Invidious.
I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped, no playlists or weird quality characters blocking it, I've tested other videos and those work fine but others do not.
I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones, I've searched down to the exact error code and saw nothing really similar. This doesn't appear to match the pinned reports at the top.
[x ] I've read bugs section in FAQ, read through the procedures multiple times to make sure I'm getting it right.
Verbose log
[Sun Jul 26 15:33:54 2020] ERROR: X51Za9YcAYY: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
[Sun Jul 26 15:33:54 2020] Child process exited with non-zero code: 1
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] System config: []
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] User config: []
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] Custom config: []
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] Command-line args: ['--newline', '-i', '-o', '/home/chao/Videos/Videos/BlueXephos/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-v', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', '--add-metadata', '--all-subs', '--embed-subs', '--rm-cache-dir', 'https://invidio.us/watch?v=X51Za9YcAYY']
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] Python version 3.8.3 (CPython) - Linux-5.7.9-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] [debug] Proxy map: {}
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] ERROR: X51Za9YcAYY: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] File "/home/chao/.config/youtube-dlg/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] ie_result = ie.extract(url)
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] File "/home/chao/.config/youtube-dlg/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] File "/home/chao/.config/youtube-dlg/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1892, in _real_extract
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] raise ExtractorError(
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: X51Za9YcAYY: YouTube said: Unable to extract video data
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020]
[Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 2020] Child process exited with non-zero code: 1