[YouTube] Content Too Short

[RingoTheDog]

Similar to NOCO issue but YouTube.....

C:>youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxiXI47WoM
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxiXI47WoM']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] JpxiXI47WoM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] JpxiXI47WoM: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] JpxiXI47WoM: Extracting video information
[youtube] JpxiXI47WoM: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r3---sn-ni5f-t8gl.googlevideo.com/video
playback?signature=67BF0CBB8B4E295F6F1CB2A09D0A26C5B614744B.CEB3D140AB1F960A7E24
FC50343939B746BCEDEA&ratebypass=yes&requiressl=yes&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip
%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpir
e&upn=JfkmppBrS_g&sver=3&itag=18&mt=1413485764&fexp=916941%2C924638%2C927622%2C9
30666%2C930672%2C931357%2C931983%2C932404%2C934030%2C935000%2C938689%2C946023%2C
947209%2C948702%2C952302%2C953740&expire=1413507446&ipbits=0&mm=31&key=yt5&id=o-
AKo89PL46mfzrj_QKzzIpUuLqhTL706U7QP_ar9jhx2r&initcwndbps=1983750&ip=24.108.145.5
3&mv=m&source=youtube&ms=au'
[download] Destination: Woodkopf MS Ladronka 2011-JpxiXI47WoM.mp4
[download] 100% of 11.56MiB in 00:00
ERROR: content too short (expected 12125092 bytes and served 3834)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1037, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1013, in dl
File "youtube_dl\downloader\common.pyo", line 292, in download
File "youtube_dl\downloader\http.pyo", line 198, in real_download
ContentTooShortError

Thanks as always...
Ringo

[RingoTheDog]

another example just came up....

C:>youtube-dl -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevyUu2Myvw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevyUu2Myvw']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.10.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] CevyUu2Myvw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] CevyUu2Myvw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] CevyUu2Myvw: Extracting video information
[youtube] CevyUu2Myvw: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r6---sn-ni5f-t8gl.googlevideo.com/video
playback?sver=3&id=o-AIwMeAG0i8P69Uqblos5pI_FTbX5fuF8MVmW3A9027W1&source=youtube
&ratebypass=yes&fexp=916941%2C919121%2C927622%2C930666%2C930672%2C931956%2C93198
3%2C932404%2C934030%2C935688%2C946023%2C947209%2C948703%2C952302%2C952700%2C9537
44&requiressl=yes&upn=vUudhY_4guI&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%
2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&expire=14135217
20&signature=39DB6C8534E503800FB7E8E951D9186F79BCFDA9.19919258F951298018ED573F78
46714EF6DDB163&ms=au&ipbits=0&initcwndbps=1706250&mv=m&mt=1413500082&itag=22&mm=
31&key=yt5&ip=24.108.145.53'
[download] Destination: Toronto Cooks Book Trailer-CevyUu2Myvw.mp4
[download] 100% of 12.55MiB in 00:00
ERROR: content too short (expected 13163672 bytes and served 906)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1037, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1013, in dl
File "youtube_dl\downloader\common.pyo", line 292, in download
File "youtube_dl\downloader\http.pyo", line 198, in real_download
ContentTooShortError

[jaimeMF]

Unfortunately, those are errors on Youtube side. See #3961 (comment) for a workaround.

[andrew-aladev]

You can reproduce this error easily by using slow filesystem. For example I've mounted yandex disk as davfs and trying to download big video into it.