Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

[Harald Weis]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:22:02PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
 > 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 requirement 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.

Great. That was it!

===>  Installing for youtube_dl-2013.02.02
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>   Compressing manual pages for youtube_dl-2013.02.02
===>   Registering installation for youtube_dl-2013.02.02
Installing youtube_dl-2013.02.02... done

===>>> Upgrade of youtube_dl-2012.02.27 to youtube_dl-2013.02.02 complete

There is even a manpage now.

Thank you very much indeed, Polytropon.
-- 
Harald
Versailles, France