IndexError: list index out of range

[ovidiugabriel]

IndexError: list index out of range

>> $ ./dashproxy.py http://yt-dash-mse-test.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/media/car-20120827-manifest.mpd -o .
Running dash proxy for stream http://yt-dash-mse-test.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/media/car-20120827-manifest.mpd. Output goes in .
mpd=[]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 289, in <module>
    main()
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 286, in main
    run(args)
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 275, in run
    return proxy.run()
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 115, in run
    self.refresh_mpd()
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 129, in refresh_mpd
    self.handle_mpd(mpd)
  File "./dashproxy.py", line 150, in handle_mpd
    period = periods[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

[radvaz]

I had the same kind of errors when tying to download a live streaming content:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dashproxy.py", line 289, in
main()
File "dashproxy.py", line 286, in main
run(args)
File "dashproxy.py", line 275, in run
return proxy.run()
File "dashproxy.py", line 115, in run
self.refresh_mpd()
File "dashproxy.py", line 128, in refresh_mpd
mpd = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(r.text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1311, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1657, in feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 116169: ordinal not in range(128)

How could we fix this issue?