@ -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means you're using an outdated version of Python.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.