On Python 2.x on Windows, if there are any unicode arguments in the command argument list, the whole list is converted to unicode internally.
Therefore, we need to call encodeArgument on every argument.
Fixes#4337 and #4668.
With avconv and older versions of ffmpeg the video is partially copied.
The duration difference between the audio and the video seem to be really small, so it's probably not noticeable.
Instead of having to configure PPs in code, this allows us and embedding programs not to worry about imports or finer details, similarly to how we handle IEs.
utils is large enough without these compatibility functions.
Everything that is present in newer versions of Python (i.e. with dev Python it's just an import) goes into compat.py .
Everything else (i.e. youtube-dl-specific helpers) goes into utils.py .
Affects the ffmpeg post processors, if ‘--prefer-ffmpeg’ is given and both avconv and ffmpeg are installed, it will use ffmpeg. Otherwise it will follow the old behaviour.
Philipp Hagemeister
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz
Jouke Waleson
rupertbaxter2
pulpe