ERROR: Did not get any data blocks

[tomkatke]

Here is a youtube video that plays well on youtube, but will not download. Hoping you can figure out why.
Thanks,
Tom Katke

tom@K1204Stud:~/Youtube$ uname -a
Linux K1204Stud 3.2.0-23-lowlatency #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 11 02:24:03 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

tom@K1204Stud:~/Youtube$ sudo youtube-dl -U
Updating to version 2013.01.13...
Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version.

tom@K1204Stud:~/Youtube$ python --version
Python 2.7.3

tom@K1204Stud:~/Youtube$ youtube-dl --verbose -i -c -w --output="EdSheeran-20121203-GiveMeLove-MSG-fWxS2K9-5j4_2.04_kelly_kapowski.%(ext)s" "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxS2K9-5j4"
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] fWxS2K9-5j4: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] fWxS2K9-5j4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] fWxS2K9-5j4: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 1093

ERROR: Did not get any data blocks
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 17, in
youtube_dl.main()
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 596, in main
_real_main()
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 580, in _real_main
retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 514, in download
self.process_info(video)
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 471, in process_info
success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict)
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 716, in _do_download
self.trouble(u'\nERROR: Did not get any data blocks')
File "/home/tom/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 222, in trouble
self.to_stderr(u''.join(traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())))

[phihag]

Most likely a duplicate of #575 . But this report contains lots more of information, thanks!

[hfa2010]

Similar here:
ERROR: unable to download video
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 17, in
youtube_dl.main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 494, in main
_real_main()
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 478, in _real_main
retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 523, in download
self.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 228, in trouble
tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

Can't download any video...

[phihag]

@HFA Your error message is different, and the error being discussed here is known for being transient. Please open a new issue and include the command-line and full output. Note that as mentioned in the FAQ, your error is indicative of an old version of youtube-dl, so make sure to update with sudo youtube-dl -U.

[hfa2010]

Okay, did it:
#647