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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-02-18 10:54:45 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2015-02-18 10:54:45 +0100
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[README] Add an FAQ entry for the player change in anticipation of many more bug reports
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### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
-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 `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.
### ERROR: unable to download video ###
-youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.
+
+### ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'OF'
+
+In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence in a string that was misinterpreted by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.
### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ###