Syfy unable to rename file UnicodeDecodeError #2388

[ghost]

#2388

__main__.py http://www.syfy.com/videos/Robot%20Combat%20League/Behind%20the%20Scenes/vid:2631458 --verbose

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.syfy.com/videos/Robot%20Combat%20League/Behind%20the%20Scenes/vid:2631458', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1250', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp852', pref: 'cp1250'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Syfy] 2631458: Downloading webpage
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading config
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading XML
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading f4m manifest
[download] Destination: George Lucas has Advice for his Daughter-NmqMrGnXvmO1.flv
[download] 100% of 19.22MiB in 00:11
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 800, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 790, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 982, in download
    self.extract_info(url)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 546, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 539, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 763, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 953, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 929, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 290, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\downloader\f4m.py", line 294, in real_download
    self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
  File "C:\Users\pulpe\Documents\GitHub\youtube-dl\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 176, in try_rename
    self.report_error(u'unable to rename file: %s' % str(err))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

Thanks for help.

[jaimeMF]

Could you try with the last version (2014.04.03.2 or newer)?

[ghost]

youtube-dl.exe --verbose http://www.syfy.com/videos/Robot%20Combat%20League/Behind%20the%20Scenes/vid:2631458
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.syfy.com/videos/Robot%20Combat%20League/Behind%20the%20Scenes/vid:2631458']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1250, fs mbcs, out cp852, pref cp1250
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.04.04.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Syfy] 2631458: Downloading webpage
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading config
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading XML
[ThePlatform] NmqMrGnXvmO1: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading f4m manifest
[download] Destination: George Lucas has Advice for his Daughter-NmqMrGnXvmO1.flv
[download] 100% of 19.22MiB in 00:14

Looks like it is solved.

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for checking it, I think the problem is that I forgot to close the file handler, I fixed it in b900e7c. If the problem reappears, please comment here and I'll reopen. Thanks and sorry for taking so long.