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Broken for a certain youtube video, "unable to download video data" #6238

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pps opened this issue Jul 15, 2015 · 4 comments
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Broken for a certain youtube video, "unable to download video data" #6238

pps opened this issue Jul 15, 2015 · 4 comments

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@pps pps commented Jul 15, 2015

Trying to dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5ID0x932I. Video works in browser, but download is broken with youtube-dl:

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5ID0x932I
[youtube] 8a5ID0x932I: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 8a5ID0x932I: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 8a5ID0x932I: Extracting video information
[youtube] 8a5ID0x932I: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] 8a5ID0x932I: Downloading DASH manifest
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Not sure if this is specific to only this video.

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@jaimeMF jaimeMF commented Jul 15, 2015

The problem is that on the YouTube player the video's highest quality is 360p but on the dash manifest it list 480p and higher. As a workaround you can use -f '134+140'or -f best. Since the last one works and it's a 720p file, I'd guess that eventually the other fomats will be available.

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@pps pps commented Jul 15, 2015

Perfect, thanks.

As a suggestion: I've got a youtube-dl config file with lots of fallback options. Couldn't youtube-dl check the next worst option in such a case too?

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@jaimeMF jaimeMF commented Jul 15, 2015

I guess it could be done, open a new issue if you want it.

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@pps pps commented Jul 16, 2015

I'll consider it. Thanks.

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