Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

[Bernt Hansson]

2013-04-09 12:22, Polytropon skrev:
> 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 reqirement 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.

Or something like this.

% youtube-dl -t '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: Pat Metheny - Secret Story-6xuubjIrYkc.flv
[download]   0.9% of 482.49M at  457.60k/s ETA 17:50

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>> 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.
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>