broken -f best on this youtube url

[seanjensengrey]

I am attempting to download

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1SOq-E0Ts

ERROR: content too short (expected 399345218 bytes and served 3857)

[jaimeMF]

Unless you include the verbose output (or at least the youtube url that fails), we can't debug the probem.

[seanjensengrey]

I am doing a brew upgrade right now so SSLv2 is broken. As soon as system is stable I will append additional info.

[seanjensengrey]

(zu.env)volcano:~ sitka$ youtube-dl --verbose -f best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1SOq-E0Ts
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-f', 'best', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1SOq-E0Ts']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] uG1SOq-E0Ts: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uG1SOq-E0Ts: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] uG1SOq-E0Ts: Extracting video information
[youtube] uG1SOq-E0Ts: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r19---sn-nx57ynel.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mm=31&fexp=916941%2C927622%2C930666%2C930672%2C931983%2C932404%2C934030%2C942482%2C946013%2C947209%2C947225%2C952302&id=o-AIaRVOpkw5zLwG8Z-z0DMuhlxRBKz8frkEulzT_2lMqC&signature=B1D52734B980195EC9CF7AC9B73E8DE1CB41A7AE.F8C1EE8D89765924D2BDB28EC300C3C5F6DB31CD&key=yt5&ip=24.17.15.236&mt=1413442164&requiressl=yes&source=youtube&mv=m&ms=au&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes&initcwndbps=1767500&upn=NF1ZM4M6oxs&expire=1413463830&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3&itag=22'
[download] Resuming download at byte 3857
[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
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/sitka/zu.env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 64, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/Users/sitka/zu.env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1266, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

[jaimeMF]

That's an error on Youtube side. Yesterday I got the same error, but I have tried now again and I could download the whole video.

When you have this problem, you can list all the available formats with the -F option and try downloading other format with -f FORMAT_CODE.