Downloading from 3Sat seems to be broken again using 2013.12.26

[schwindp]

Exporting 3Sat mediathek content seems to be not-working again:

youtube-dl --verbose -t "http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=40779"
[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-t', 'http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=40779']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.12.5-200.fc19.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-19-Schrödinger’s_Cat
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?mode=play&obj=40779: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?mode=play&obj=40779: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=40779; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 484, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 149, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 330, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=40779;

[pschwindt@korn:~/Downloads]$ youtube-dl --version
2013.12.26

[jaimeMF]

It just didn't recognized the url, it's fixed now, thanks for the report.

[phihag]

Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.01.03. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.