ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[strex]

Hello,

I get this error message when I try to download videos as 480p webm (-f 44).

It only happens with some videos, for example:

youtube-dl -f 44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q03mfQqw0NI
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Q03mfQqw0NI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] Q03mfQqw0NI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Q03mfQqw0NI: Extracting video information

ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[phihag]

With a quick test, I couldn't find another video that exhibits the same behavior. For example,

youtube-dl -f 44 BaW_jenozKc

works fine. To isolate the error, it would be very helpful if you could list one or more other URLs where the error occurs. Thanks!

[strex]

Here are a two more URLs where the error occurs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewKzcavZ-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3w490xyJUY

I´m sorry but I did not find more at the moment.

[Zurd]

youtube-dl -f 43 http://www.youtube.com/v/bjVn4WGmNis
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] bjVn4WGmNis: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] bjVn4WGmNis: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] bjVn4WGmNis: Extracting video information

ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[Zurd]

youtube-dl -f 43 http://www.youtube.com/v/hfu1LZ8LTU0

[tomkatke]

The error code should be "Format not available." Try leaving out the -f number, youtube-dl defaults to the highest resolution. It worked for me.

[Zurd]

But I wanted format 43 and if you do youtube-dl -F on that video it lists format 43 as being available.

[tomkatke]

Hey Zurd, Thanks for the undocumented command, youtube-dl -F http://$URL, its not in the man page. I stand corrected. :-)

[phihag]

@tomkatke -F is documented in the official manpage (which is auto-generated from the output of --help, which itself is auto-generated from the actual options). Contact your distribution about the manpage.

[sudoman]

youtube-dl -c -l -f 44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpHl6zYPhEo

[skeeto]

Here's another one:

youtube-dl -f44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPNjw3qh9Yw

[NulAsh]

youtube-dl https://youtu.be/ZMCYc9DjemM

[youtube] ZMCYc9DjemM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZMCYc9DjemM: Downloading video info webpage
[download] Destination: Build Swimming pool on the House-ZMCYc9DjemM.mp4
[download]   0.2% of 238.77MiB at 612.47KiB/s ETA 06:38        [download] Got server HTTP error: Downloaded 400789 bytes, expected 250368493 bytes. Retrying (attempt 1 of 10)...


ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[dstftw]

Most of such errors are caused by server side youtube errors.