youtube-dl fails, wget succeeds

[frostyfrog]

So I'm trying to download a bunch of youtube videos from a file, and I keep getting stuck on this error:

[youtube] AB_MsFG7Z1k: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] AB_MsFG7Z1k: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] AB_MsFG7Z1k: Extracting video information
[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: 00011_Nightcore_-_Flying_High_-20110421.flv.info.json
ERROR: unable to download video data: ''

I decided to grab the url from the json file and send it to wget, which succeeded. I really want to use youtube-dl though (which doesn't try to skip over the error either :( ). Is there any known way around this problem? (I am able to redownload every video up to this point over again, so I'm not entirely sure it's youtube's fault...)

The command that I've been running is:
youtube-dl --write-info-json -a vids2 -o "%(autonumber)s_%(stitle)s_-%(upload_date)s-_%(uploader)s.%(ext)s" -wc

Edit (Added version info):

[root@Atlanta Desktop]# uname -a
Linux Atlanta 3.3.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 21 22:39:59 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
[root@Atlanta Desktop]# python2.7 --version
Python 2.7.3
[root@Atlanta Desktop]# youtube-dl --version
2012.02.27

[FiloSottile]

I can't reproduce it. If you kill that video from the list, does the download reach the end of the list?

[frostyfrog]

Man, I completely forgot that I had this problem. Yes, removing the problem
URLs did help it to reach the end of the list of downloads... goes to find
url file

The one mentioned above was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_MsFG7Z1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3L-RlOSOzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5un3I19Y6I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnrzAiiKeEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDbA7RIhBU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmJhMBT6sQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXmovQ5igRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe7SmGEHd8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBTWuEwOztA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNrtC_Dob8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI69qdWL5Dk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_MsFG7Z1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv_hldfoU8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xQfBfaAL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLim-InSmwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMvd0Mh2o4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aidZgPGhrig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGwhfz9_ng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4c34GQdcAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR7vEB4_5pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxOLYAmvOik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0rorLEzxsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U07ZYLWciw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDQuwJWs84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3avZoloeU

[frostyfrog]

I've noticed that when running this command, I start receiving that error from episode 9 onwards.
youtube-dl -iA --write-description --write-info-json -t 'http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCD2CF65888663986'

Edit:
After doing some tshark investigation, it looks like youtube may be sending the data, and my computer is acknowledging it, but that error still pops up... I think I'll try the current git version, and see if there have been any changes that have fixed this.

Edit 2:
Now there are playlist issues... See: #407
This code works fine for playlists, and is what I was using...
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/9c228928b6a636ff4ed294e170e3de36d9bb45c5/youtube_dl/__init__.py

[ravkr]

is this still a problem? or can we close it now?

[ealgase]

Tested it, no longer appears to be an issue.