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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/external.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
index cf4556221..17f12e970 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ class FFmpegFD(ExternalFD):
if proxy:
if not re.match(r'^[\da-zA-Z]+://', proxy):
proxy = 'http://%s' % proxy
+
+ if proxy.startswith('socks'):
+ self.report_warning(
+ '%s does not support SOCKS proxies. Downloading may fail.' % self.get_basename())
+
# Since December 2015 ffmpeg supports -http_proxy option (see
# http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=b4eb1f29ebddd60c41a2eb39f5af701e38e0d3fd)
# We could switch to the following code if we are able to detect version properly