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I tried the URL shown in the log snippet you posted with the latest version on youtube-dl on the command line and it failed.

I tried with the latest version available in Ubuntu and it works for me:

Code:

paper@desktop:~/temp$ youtube-dl --version
2016.02.22
paper@desktop:~/temp$ youtube-dl https://livestream.com/nrl/roostersstorm2016
[livestream] Downloading JSON metadata
[livestream] 5507510: Downloading page 1
[livestream] 5507510: Downloading page 2
[download] Downloading playlist: Roosters v Storm
[livestream] playlist Roosters v Storm: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[livestream] 125951199: Downloading JSON metadata
[livestream] 125951199: Downloading SMIL file
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/livestream.py:67: FutureWarning: The behavior of this method will change in future versions.  Use specific 'len(elem)' or 'elem is not None' test instead.
  base = base_ele.get('content') if base_ele else 'http://livestreamvod-f.akamaihd.net/'
[livestream] 125951199: Downloading m3u8 information
[livestream] 125951199: Downloading f4m manifest
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 1186
[download] Destination: Roosters v Storm-125951199.mp4
[download]   0.4% of ~2.00GiB at  5.22MiB/s ETA 10:28^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

Either the add-on that is using this module is passing a URL that won't work, or support for the site is currently broken. In any case the author of the add-on with the ID of plugin.video.nrl is the one to talk to.

But why is it always working first time after reboot and not working afterwards?
Here's code to that addon:
https://bitbucket.org/older/plugin.video...ddon.py-47
Module is passing exactly that same URL which is visible in the error message.