ntvde python error

[viisauksena]

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youtube-dl --verbose http://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Es-lebe-die-Fressefreiheit-was-duerfen-wir-noch-sagen-article19188311.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Es-lebe-die-Fressefreiheit-was-duerfen-wir-noch-sagen-article19188311.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.12+ - Linux-4.4.0-kali1-686-pae-i686-with-Kali-kali-rolling-kali-rolling
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.2-1, ffprobe 3.1.2-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[n-tv.de] 19188311: Downloading webpage
ERROR: 19188311: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError("Expecting ',' delimiter: line 11 column 30 (char 255)",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 545, in _parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 339, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 11 column 30 (char 255)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 343, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/ntvde.py", line 44, in _real_extract
video_id, transform_source=js_to_json)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 549, in _parse_json
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)
ExtractorError: 19188311: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError("Expecting ',' delimiter: line 11 column 30 (char 255)",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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[viisauksena]

thx, my linux distro was uptodate - but outdatet. building it from git source myself helped