release 2014.01.05.4

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / __init__.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index eac7c42eb4139c5cd80908bd13efbcaa65d38b0b..6fb35faadea319857b11fe5c44a0e988830d89c6 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -186,13 +186,13 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     general.add_option('--no-check-certificate', action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False, help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.')
     general.add_option(
         '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR',
-        help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl .')
+        help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.')
     general.add_option(
         '--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=None, dest='cachedir',
         help='Disable filesystem caching')
     general.add_option(
         '--socket-timeout', dest='socket_timeout',
-        type=float, default=None, help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
+        type=float, default=None, help=u'Time to wait before giving up, in seconds')
     general.add_option(
         '--bidi-workaround', dest='bidi_workaround', action='store_true',
         help=u'Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH')
@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
             sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
     all_urls = batchurls + args
     all_urls = [url.strip() for url in all_urls]
+    _enc = preferredencoding()
+    all_urls = [url.decode(_enc, 'ignore') if isinstance(url, bytes) else url]
 
     extractors = gen_extractors()