WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback

[robinrowe]

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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 https://youtu.be/ZjxnmLp2_H8 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://youtu.be/ZjxnmLp2_H8', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] ZjxnmLp2_H8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZjxnmLp2_H8: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] ZjxnmLp2_H8: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
[youtube] {22} signature length 43.40, html5 player None
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1005, in _decrypt_signature
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 897, in _extract_signature_function
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1005, in _decrypt_signature
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 897, in _extract_signature_function
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1005, in _decrypt_signature
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 897, in _extract_signature_function
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 357, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1584, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1015, in _decrypt_signature
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 1005, in _decrypt_signature
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp0yt5fyka\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 897, in _extract_signature_function
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by ExtractorError("Cannot identify player '/yts/jsbin/player-vflmgXZN3/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[yan12125]

You're using a out-dated version (2016.11.22). Please check https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl for how to update youtube-dl.