[BBC] no video formats found

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.bbc.com/news/av/embed/p07xmg48/50670843
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.bbc.com/news/av/embed/p07xmg48/50670843']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.15, avprobe 2.8.15, ffmpeg N-95296-g1cdb7c5, ffprobe N-95296-g1cdb7c5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc] 50670843: Downloading webpage
[bbc] p07xmg48: Downloading media selection XML
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/filme/yt/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/filme/yt/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 530, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/filme/yt/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py", line 937, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(formats)
  File "/filme/yt/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1327, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

A download of a BBC video doesn’t work. The video is actually part of this page, from which it cannot be downloaded as well. With both links (this one and the embedded one), video playback works flawlessly in a browser, outside of UK (in Germany). Looking at the network traffic, I can also extract the DASH manifest by hand and download it using youtube-dl.

[dirkf]

As at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/e465b25c1fb0e72b97a032220399d4a959662095:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/embed/p07xmg48/50670843: broken
• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-51637561/coronavirus-watch-how-germs-spread: works.

Also at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/a40002444e64957594a1305bb2740fddb477beeb.

[dirkf]

Alternative resolution is PR https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/26821 (less than a year and had no memory of having posted in this bug 😦)