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authorJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2014-06-09 20:23:20 +0200
committerJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2014-06-09 20:23:20 +0200
commit23566e0d783367dc92c0bfc7f907ef63e1ade658 (patch)
tree2d5bc12c68222aed79cf1b9ab1a8e55a6a51a483
parent828553b614e091c181a519db9c451c133011016b (diff)
rtmp and hls downloaders: Clarify error message when the external tools are not installed
Ask to install them, as we do in the postprocessor. We get some reports with it, like #3061 or #3048.
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py2
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py
index 9d407fe6e..9f29e2f81 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class HlsFD(FileDownloader):
except (OSError, IOError):
pass
else:
- self.report_error(u'm3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found')
+ self.report_error(u'm3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found. Please install one.')
cmd = [program] + args
retval = subprocess.call(cmd)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py
index cc6a84106..68646709a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class RtmpFD(FileDownloader):
try:
subprocess.call(['rtmpdump', '-h'], stdout=(open(os.path.devnull, 'w')), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
except (OSError, IOError):
- self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run')
+ self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run. Please install it.')
return False
# Download using rtmpdump. rtmpdump returns exit code 2 when