Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:15:35 +0200, Harald Weis wrote:
> I've also seen that the '-h' option did tell a lot of things, except the
> the reqirement to quote the URL...

This is something you'll find in "man csh" or "man bash". :-)



> Now I get the following:
> 
> me at pollux:~ % youtube-dl -v "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuubjIrYkc"
> [debug] Proxy map: {}
> [youtube] Setting language
> [youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video webpage
> [youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video info webpage
> [youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Extracting video information
> 
> ERROR: unable to download video
> me at pollux:~ % 

You should see something like this instead:

% youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuubjIrYkc"
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 6xuubjIrYkc: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 6xuubjIrYkc.flv
[download]   1.9% of 482.49M at  180.22k/s ETA 44:49
...
and so on.



> Unable(!) to see the reason.

What version are you running?

I have youtube_dl-2012.09.27 here, not the most recent one.
Sometimes there is a problem when your version has been
obsoleted by something YouTube did change.


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