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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/mplayer.py7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/mplayer.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/mplayer.py
index c53195da0..34b23b5c2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/mplayer.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/mplayer.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import subprocess
from .common import FileDownloader
from ..compat import compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL
from ..utils import (
+ check_executable,
encodeFilename,
)
@@ -20,11 +21,7 @@ class MplayerFD(FileDownloader):
'mplayer', '-really-quiet', '-vo', 'null', '-vc', 'dummy',
'-dumpstream', '-dumpfile', tmpfilename, url]
# Check for mplayer first
- try:
- subprocess.call(
- ['mplayer', '-h'],
- stdout=compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL(), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
- except (OSError, IOError):
+ if not check_executable('mplayer', ['-h']):
self.report_error('MMS or RTSP download detected but "%s" could not be run' % args[0])
return False