UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

[nickv2002]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v 'https://vimeo.com/210703640'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://vimeo.com/210703640']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.29
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-4.4.27-9-osmc-armv7l-with-debian-8.8
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4-1, ffprobe 3.2.4-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 210703640: Extracting information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic m3u8 information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading fastly_skyfire_h2 m3u8 information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading akfire_interconnect_quic MPD information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading fastly_skyfire_h2 MPD information
[vimeo] 210703640: Downloading fastly_skyfire_h2 MPD information
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://skyfire-h2.vimeocdn.com/1496206996-0x9dc5a498ac14cfe9709d4e8f8b4dbdbb3ebc3f6d/210703640/sep/video/722559722,722559727,722559726,722559723/../'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 24
[download] Destination: Jem Cresswell 'Giants' - Behind the scenes-210703640.fdash-fastly_skyfire_h2_sep-video-722559723.mp4
ERROR: unable to download video
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1896, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 771, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 825, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1539, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1808, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: "Jem Cresswell 'Giants' - Behind the scenes-210703640.fdash-fastly_skyfire_h2_sep-video-722559723.mp4.part"

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I'm not sure precisely what's failing here. The download seems to work fine on in other directories, it's just this (Samba-mount) dir that's giving me problems. I download lots of videos in this directory and things were working fine until recently. Can you help me understand what causes UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 13] Permission denied so I can fix it on my system?

[nickv2002]

I've worked around this by downloading to /tmp first and then moving to my target directory afterwards, so it's not that I don't have permission to write to my target current directory.

It would still be good to know more about UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 13] Permission denied errors. I think this is complicated by the fact that my target directory is a Samba mount, but this has been working for hundreds of videos for months without issue.

Thanks!

[nickv2002]

Just to double check, I just tested creating/renaming/removing dirs and files in the suspect directory from the command line and didn't have any problems.

touch blah && mv blah bla && rm bla
mkdir blah && mv blah bla && rm -r bla

Strange that I can't reproduce any problems from the command line, but I can consistently trigger it from youtube-dl. Here's another example on a YouTube video:

youtube-dl -v 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzvKH8AVf0'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzvKH8AVf0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.29
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-4.4.27-9-osmc-armv7l-with-debian-8.8
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4-1, ffprobe 3.2.4-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] aPzvKH8AVf0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] aPzvKH8AVf0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] aPzvKH8AVf0: Extracting video information
[youtube] aPzvKH8AVf0: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r8---sn-n4v7kn7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback/id/68fcef287f0055fd/itag/137/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/pl/17/ms/au/ei/vfUuWfzhEMa8_APIo5XoDg/mn/sn-n4v7kn7k/mm/31/initcwndbps/1686250/mv/m/ratebypass/yes/mime/video%2Fmp4/otfp/1/gir/yes/clen/40879887/lmt/1496229911112970/dur/170.753/key/dg_yt0/signature/856498BDD558CDDF19706FD4A4E09E086D2BB71E.0EB3DB642D81FBE8F455F4BD2CD22D57EABE1239/mt/1496249672/ip/50.168.54.13/ipbits/0/expire/1496271389/sparams/ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,pl,ms,ei,mn,mm,initcwndbps,mv,ratebypass,mime,otfp,gir,clen,lmt,dur/'
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 35
[download] Destination: LOGAN LUCKY _ Official HD Trailer-aPzvKH8AVf0.f137.mp4
[download]   2.9% of ~24.44KiB at 296.36KiB/s ETA 00:04ERROR: unable to download video
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1896, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 771, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 825, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1539, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1808, in process_info
    raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'LOGAN LUCKY _ Official HD Trailer-aPzvKH8AVf0.f137.mp4.ytdl'

But since this seems to be an issue with the specific mount and I was able to work around it, I'll close this issue for now.

[titansoftime]

I got this error as well running Windows 7. Just had to set my non admin user account to read/write allowed in folder security.