410 Gone with -f bestvideo on YouTube

[ivan]

YouTube reports that it has format 299 for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2qtLCxmfE when it doesn't, causing -f bestvideo to fail:

$ PYTHONPATH=. python3 ./bin/youtube-dl -f bestvideo "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2qtLCxmfE"
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Extracting video information
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Resuming download at byte 1047552
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 410: Gone

$ PYTHONPATH=. python3 ./bin/youtube-dl -f 299 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2qtLCxmfE"      
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Extracting video information
[youtube] zj2qtLCxmfE: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Resuming download at byte 1047552
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 410: Gone

It does have the VP9 format 303, though.

It's been that way for a month, so it's not a temporary YouTube error.

Related: #2352 where YouTube is reporting that it has format 43 for m34r0BLy5YU but doesn't.

Maybe it's worth dropping to the next format when getting a 410 Gone?

[jaimeMF]

On the first run I get content too short errors, so I guess it's a YouTube error. And they are listing the format both in the video webpage and in the dash manifest, so we can't filter it.

[ivan]

Format 299 for this particular video was fixed on YouTube's side.

[ivan]

Never mind, I checked incorrectly.

[fstirlitz]

Another video, same issue; this time with -f bestaudio. The video stream downloads normally.

$ youtube-dl -v VoxZuggJk0I -f bestaudio
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--continue', '--add-metadata', '--merge-output-format', 'mkv']
[debug] Command-line args: ['--xattrs', '-v', 'VoxZuggJk0I', '-f', 'bestaudio']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.05.29
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Linux-4.0.4-2-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-72229-gb44a55a, ffprobe N-72229-gb44a55a, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] VoxZuggJk0I: Downloading webpage
[youtube] VoxZuggJk0I: Extracting video information
[youtube] VoxZuggJk0I: Downloading DASH manifest
[debug] Invoking downloader on '[DATA EXPUNGED]'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 410: Gone

[ivan]

Also happens for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7jUrkfMtr4 - getting bestvideo (format 248) results in 410 Gone.

[avih]

Same with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAPOhk4A7ps (video plays fine, 410 gone for the audio, plays fine with audio in Firefox and HTML5 video).

[starrychloe]

Related, for audio: #9715

[christiangenco]

For posterity, these errors can be ignored with the --ignore-errors flag.