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Add recent breakages to FAQ (#433)

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Philipp Hagemeister 2012-09-27 23:29:40 +02:00
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<li><a href="#q-play-video">I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?</a></li> <li><a href="#q-play-video">I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?</a></li>
<li><a href="#q-g-links">The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore</a></li> <li><a href="#q-g-links">The links provided by youtube-dl -g are not working anymore</a></li>
<li><a href="#q-no-fmt_url_map">ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info</a></li> <li><a href="#q-no-fmt_url_map">ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info</a></li>
<li><a href="#q-unable-to-download-video">ERROR: unable to download video</a></li>
<li><a href="#q-syntax-error-non-ascii">SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character</a></li>
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<p>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 <code style="white-space:pre;">sudo youtube-dl --update</code> (or <code>python youtube-dl --update</code>). <p>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 <code style="white-space:pre;">sudo youtube-dl --update</code> (or <code>python youtube-dl --update</code>).
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<h1 id="q-unable-to-download-video">ERROR: unable to download video</h1>
<p>youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with <code style="white-space:pre;">sudo youtube-dl --update</code> (or <code>python youtube-dl --update</code>).</p>
<h1 id="q-syntax-error-non-ascii">SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character</h1>
<p>The error
<code style="white-space:pre; display: block; margin: 1em 2em;">File "youtube-dl", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...</code>
means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.</p>
<p>To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out and run it like this:
<code style="white-space:pre; display: block; margin: 1em 2em;">git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
cd youtube-dl
python -m youtube-dl --help</code>
Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.</p>
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