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WebM support for Youtube #134
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I tried to use youtube-dl just now and also had this error. Until last week I used the program without problems. I suspect that there were changes on Youtube, because the Firefox extension Easy Youtube Video Downloader also crashed; button disappeared. Must be a detail common to the two softwares. |
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Yeah, there was a Youtube change sometime within the past couple hours, actually. It also broke my Youtube without Flash auto greasemonkey script as well. Hope to see a new version soon :) |
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And as far as I can tell, it doesn't have anything to do with WebM videos, I think it's broken for all videos right now. |
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doorknob60: you're right, there are (as far as I can tell) no working videos, WebM or not. A few hours ago the problem only existed for WebM videos. |
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For what it is worth, clicking on 'save as' under the www.youtube.com/html5 beta currently serves you a link to a Rick-Roll. |
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phihag, yes, it work for me. Thank you. |
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phihag: Works for me too. I still get flv's when downloading, though, instead of WebM. Is there any planned support for WebM format? (In other words: should I close this issue because it is out of the scope of youtube-dl?) |
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@hdclark webm should be supported, and it works for me. By default, youtube-dl should choose the best (highest-quality) format. Try
I'll add a fallback ( |
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tnx |
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phihag, I'll cherry-pick your fix, test it a bit and get a new version out. |
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@phihag I was testing it on videos which had no webm format available. Works for me. Thanks. |
I also am not able to download any video that is available (or, as far as I can tell, also available) in WebM. After grabbing the latest version (2011.03.29) I had to change:
!/usr/bin/env python
to
!/usr/bin/env python2.7
to get the script to proceed beyond the 185th line. Beyond this, I am unable to download any html5 content. I am also unable to try specify any other (non-WebM) formats:
[hal@computer Music]$ youtube-dl -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovXGW8pSR4
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Extracting video information
ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
[hal@computer Music]$ youtube-dl -t -f 22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovXGW8pSR4
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Extracting video information
ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
[hal@computer Music]$ youtube-dl -t --all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovXGW8pSR4
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] VovXGW8pSR4: Extracting video information
ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
The same fate happens when trying to use philhag's fork, which apparently fixed the issue earlier ( #108 ).