Fix --match-title and --reject-title decoding (Closes #690)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / FileDownloader.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index 0ac526389cef50ea37e657785a9f2af4d383feec..53c2d1dce0fcc902286f25707013021eba35f726 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -370,12 +370,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
         title = info_dict['title']
         matchtitle = self.params.get('matchtitle', False)
         if matchtitle:
-            matchtitle = matchtitle.decode('utf8')
             if not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
                 return u'[download] "' + title + '" title did not match pattern "' + matchtitle + '"'
         rejecttitle = self.params.get('rejecttitle', False)
         if rejecttitle:
-            rejecttitle = rejecttitle.decode('utf8')
             if re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
                 return u'"' + title + '" title matched reject pattern "' + rejecttitle + '"'
         return None