Accented character in output filename causes error

[mr-brunes]

Hi

I've just started using youtube-dl on Windows 7 but ran into problems e.g.

E:\downloads>youtube-dl http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/sons-dhiver-20
14-pere-ubu-147937
[culturebox.francetvinfo.fr] sons-dhiver-2014-pere-ubu-147937: Downloading webpa
ge
[culturebox.francetvinfo.fr] EV_6886: Downloading XML config
[download] Destination: Sons d'hiver 2014 - PÞre Ubu-EV_6886.mp4
ERROR: m3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found

So I then googled for ffmpeg and downloaded it from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/.
I copied the ffmpeg exe into the E:|downloads folder and ran youtube-dl again. It gets slightly further but still an error:

E:\downloads>youtube-dl http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/sons-dhiver-20
14-pere-ubu-147937
[culturebox.francetvinfo.fr] sons-dhiver-2014-pere-ubu-147937: Downloading webpa
ge
[culturebox.francetvinfo.fr] EV_6886: Downloading XML config
[download] Destination: Sons d'hiver 2014 - PÞre Ubu-EV_6886.mp4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 18, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 805, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 795, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 982, in download
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 510, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 539, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 763, in process_video_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 953, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 929, in dl
File "youtube_dl\downloader\common.pyo", line 290, in download
File "youtube_dl\downloader\hls.pyo", line 29, in real_download
File "subprocess.pyo", line 524, in call
File "subprocess.pyo", line 711, in init
File "subprocess.pyo", line 948, in _execute_child
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 213
: ordinal not in range(128)

What now?

[mr-brunes]

FWIW youtube seems to download fine:

E:\downloads>youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYqvtHzr48
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 1hYqvtHzr48: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 1hYqvtHzr48: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 1hYqvtHzr48: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Pere Ubu, 'Breath'-1hYqvtHzr48.mp4
[download] 100% of 10.62MiB in 00:01

[mr-brunes]

OK I found the problem - it looks to be a character in the output filename (maybe the accented e in "Pere" which gets changed to "PÞre"). If I change that via:

E:\downloads>youtube-dl http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/sons-dhiver-2014-pere-ubu-147937 -o %(uploader)s

then it downloads fine.

[dstftw]

This will be fixed in the next version. Thanks for the report.

[phihag]

I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl 2015.02.02.2. See our FAQ if you need help updating.