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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <[email protected]> | 2012-09-27 23:29:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <[email protected]> | 2012-09-27 23:29:40 +0200 |
| commit | 6a3ff26a01d3df58fd981daa10606d7146a1136d (patch) | |
| tree | 02390251b0c2fac80b7e2af1951898a295e9831f | |
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Add recent breakages to FAQ (#433)
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@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ <li><a href="#q-play-video">I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?</a></li> <li><a href="#q-g-links">The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore</a></li> <li><a href="#q-no-fmt_url_map">ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info</a></li> +<li><a href="#q-unable-to-download-video">ERROR: unable to download video</a></li> +<li><a href="#q-syntax-error-non-ascii">SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character</a></li> </ul> </div> @@ -66,6 +68,28 @@ <p>youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with <code style="white-space:pre;">sudo youtube-dl --update</code> (or <code>python youtube-dl --update</code>). </p> +<h1 id="q-unable-to-download-video">ERROR: unable to download video</h1> + +<p>youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with <code style="white-space:pre;">sudo youtube-dl --update</code> (or <code>python youtube-dl --update</code>).</p> + +<h1 id="q-syntax-error-non-ascii">SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character</h1> + +<p>The error + +<code style="white-space:pre; display: block; margin: 1em 2em;">File "youtube-dl", line 2 +SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...</code> + +means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.</p> + +<p>To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out and run it like this: + +<code style="white-space:pre; display: block; margin: 1em 2em;">git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git +cd youtube-dl +python -m youtube-dl --help</code> + +Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.</p> + + <div class="note"> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" |