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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/downloader/external.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py index 3ff1f9ed4..fae245024 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py +++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader): cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) _, stderr = p.communicate() if p.returncode != 0: - self.to_stderr(stderr) + self.to_stderr(stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace')) return p.returncode |