youtube-dl claims VEVO video is geoblocked when it's not

[nyuszika7h]

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>youtube-dl -v --proxy=79.188.42.46:8080 "http://www.vevo.com/watch/undefined/Universo/IT88J1300002"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--proxy=79.188.42.46:8080', 'http://www.vevo.com/watch/undefined/Universo/IT88J1300002']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.01
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-10-10.0.10586-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-79690-g78baa45, ffprobe N-79690-g78baa45
[debug] Proxy map: {'https': '79.188.42.46:8080', 'http': '79.188.42.46:8080'}
[Vevo] IT88J1300002: Downloading video info
WARNING: [Vevo] Video is geoblocked, trying with the YouTube video FBLI_6-JfB4
[youtube] FBLI_6-JfB4: Downloading webpage

ERROR: Interrupted by user

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Using an HTTP proxy from Poland, I can watch the video fine in my browser but using the same proxy with youtube-dl, it says it's blocked. This is not a DNS unblocker so I don't think there should be any "leak". I already got the videos from YouTube, but VEVO has a higher bitrate so it would be nice if I could get it working.

[nyuszika7h]

Actually, this may be the same thing as #9366, even though not exactly the same error.

I just tried, it's still broken with the latest git version.

(Note: I managed to download the videos by finding the .m3u8 in the network request log and passing the URL to ffmpeg. But if this could be fixed in youtube-dl, that would be nice.)

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. Georestriction will be correctly checked in the next version.