error trying to fetch The Voice Kids on Nine

Just on this one show on Nine, I get this error:

video desc_url http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?token=ogxhPgSphIVa2hhxbi9oqtYwtg032io4B4-ImwddYliFWHqS0UfMEw..&video_id=3634742217001&command=find_video_by_id&video_fields=renditions
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./grabber.py", line 55, in <module>
    main()
  File "./grabber.py", line 48, in main
    if not n.download():
  File "/home/jpl/webdl2/src/brightcove.py", line 42, in download
    vbase, vpath = best_url.split("&")
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

The "best_url" variable doesn't seem to have any ampersands in it. I tried two different shows on Nine (Major Crimes, The Mentalist) and it worked OK for them, so maybe something peculiar about The Voice Kids.

On closer inspection, the json content returned for the other shows contains "rtmp" URLs, whereas for The Voice Kids, it's an http URL, compare:

"url":"rtmp:\/\/vod.netshow.ninemsn.com.au\/ondemand\/&mp4:streams\/1622448032001\/2014\/05\/1622448032001_3595889975001_TheMentalist-S06E11.mp4"

with

"url":"http:\/\/vod.netshowhd.ninemsn.com.au\/z\/hds\/1622448031001\/201406\/1421\/1622448031001_3634914336001_54518e3b-f0e5-13eb-0261-e528afe98946.mp4"

Any clues for this? I naively tried to wget the URL but that failed, naturally.

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