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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2012-09-27 23:30:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2012-09-27 23:30:17 +0200 |
| commit | 6c5b442a9be6a1d320d74d1f361ae531e956873d (patch) | |
| tree | a3e26b2d2bb07b3bdc505a2e9f4f0cba66fe7463 /README.md | |
| parent | 5a5523698d39a25d6c123f2e1238b36dab0bed0d (diff) | |
Add recent breakage to FAQ (Closes #433)
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@@ -122,6 +122,27 @@ The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. 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`. +### 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`. + +### SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character ### + +The error + + File "youtube-dl", line 2 + SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ... + +means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7. + +To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like this: + + git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git + cd youtube-dl + python -m youtube-dl --help + +Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore. + # COPYRIGHT youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders. |