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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 /youtube-dl.1 | |
| parent | 5a5523698d39a25d6c123f2e1238b36dab0bed0d (diff) | |
Add recent breakage to FAQ (Closes #433)
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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube-dl.1 | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube-dl.1 b/youtube-dl.1 index 38e140e7e..00bae77a4 100644 --- a/youtube-dl.1 +++ b/youtube-dl.1 @@ -167,6 +167,37 @@ Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use 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 \f[C]sudo\ youtube-dl\ --update\f[]. +.SS ERROR: unable to download video +.PP +youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is +not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. +You can update youtube-dl with \f[C]sudo\ youtube-dl\ --update\f[]. +.SS SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character +.PP +The error +.IP +.nf +\f[C] +File\ "youtube-dl",\ line\ 2 +SyntaxError:\ Non-ASCII\ character\ \[aq]\\x93\[aq]\ ... +\f[] +.fi +.PP +means you\[aq]re using an outdated version of Python. +Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7. +.PP +To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you\[aq]ll have to manually check it +out like this: +.IP +.nf +\f[C] +git\ clone\ git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git +cd\ youtube-dl +python\ -m\ youtube-dl\ --help +\f[] +.fi +.PP +Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore. .SH COPYRIGHT .PP youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders. |