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Unable to download purchased movie

See original GitHub issue

Attempted to download a purchased movie to see if I could download it via youtube-dl

Unfortunately, the following trace occurred with the run args:

$ youtube-dl --verbose -ct -u 'username@domain.com' -p 'password' 'z4l7OZLIh9w'

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-ct', '-u', '<PRIVATE>', '-p', '<PRIVATE>', 'z4l7OZLIh9w']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.11.15.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-55-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Extracting video information
[youtube] z4l7OZLIh9w: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (40.44), itag 60, html5 player vflqSl9GX
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (40.44), itag 52, html5 player vflqSl9GX
ERROR: no known formats available for video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 348, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 125, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1452, in _real_extract
    video_url_list = self._get_video_url_list(url_map)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1189, in _get_video_url_list
    raise ExtractorError(u'no known formats available for video')
ExtractorError: no known formats available for video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.

Also tried specifying mp4. I’ll try other formats.