X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=147168949727da0fcb26f0ad9c9077e12c44629b;hb=6c5b442a9be6a1d320d74d1f361ae531e956873d;hp=05f437db91466f52e1116e5809fa10db94fa9e18;hpb=cfcec693315c7f463c9364fd8b9d96f6e090f439;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 05f437db9..147168949 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. -r, --rate-limit LIMIT download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m) -R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10) --dump-user-agent display the current browser identification + --user-agent UA specify a custom user agent --list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle @@ -93,8 +94,9 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe) --audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav"; best by default - --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio bitrate specification, 128k by - default + --audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification, insert a + value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a + specific bitrate like 128K (default 5) -k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the post- processing; the video is erased by default @@ -120,6 +122,27 @@ The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies. youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. +### ERROR: unable to download video ### + +youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. + +### SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character ### + +The error + + File "youtube-dl", line 2 + SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ... + +means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7. + +To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like this: + + git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git + cd youtube-dl + python -m youtube-dl --help + +Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore. + # COPYRIGHT youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.