copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun Dec 9 16:09:43 PST 2007


On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave
> youtube-dl: No match.
> 
> eg
> 
> %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA
> youtube-dl: No match.

You have to quote the argument to youtube-dl, otherwise the shell will
mess it up, because '?' is a special character for the shell.

So use: youtube-dl 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA'

Tested and works fine here.

Roland
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