From b95ed5235876a3fdf536bcfde6eaf1e721ab00ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Raufaste <analogue@glop.org>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 13:59:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Handle badly encoded Dailymotion JSON

---
 youtube-dl | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 8e277f39f..df16da48e 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -1338,11 +1338,15 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		# if needed add http://www.dailymotion.com/ if relative URL
 		sequenceJsonContent = urllib.unquote_plus(mobj.group(1))
-		sequenceJson = json.loads(sequenceJsonContent)
+		try:
+			sequenceJson = json.loads(sequenceJsonContent)
+		except:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL (Bad JSON encoding)')
+			return
 		try:
 			video_url = sequenceJson[0]["layerList"][0]["sequenceList"][1]["layerList"][2]["param"]["videoPluginParameters"]["hqURL"]
 		except:
-			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL (Unable to find the URL)')
 			return
 
 		# '<meta\s+name="title"\s+content="Dailymotion\s*[:\-]\s*(.*?)"\s*\/\s*>'