X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=147168949727da0fcb26f0ad9c9077e12c44629b;hb=6c5b442a9be6a1d320d74d1f361ae531e956873d;hp=118f9fe6479761fae4ddacc82dfa0f97f32f29f8;hpb=5a5523698d39a25d6c123f2e1238b36dab0bed0d;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 118f9fe64..147168949 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -122,6 +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 + +means you're using an outdated version of Python.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.