From 6c5b442a9be6a1d320d74d1f361ae531e956873d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:30:17 +0200 Subject: Add recent breakage to FAQ (Closes #433) --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 118f9fe64..147168949 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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 + +means you're using an outdated version of Python.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. -- cgit v1.2.3