synology dsm5 updated fails

[FernandoMiguel]

I've already reported this upstream at http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=82973
but given their past time to reply, I'm not very helpful.
I've recently upgraded my Synology NAS firmware (called DSM) to the final version of DSM5.
Yesterday I was logging another stuff in the CLI, and noticed youtube-dl was in use.
/volume1/homes/fernando # ps w | grep -i youtu
4881 http 4224 S < sh -c /usr/bin/python /var/packages/DownloadStation/target/ui/hostscript/hosts/youtube/youtube-dl -g --ge
4882 http 18956 R < /usr/bin/python /var/packages/DownloadStation/target/ui/hostscript/hosts/youtube/youtube-dl -g --get-file
5042 root 4228 S grep -i youtu

I checked the version installed and it was a somewhat old one:
/var/packages/DownloadStation/target/ui/hostscript/hosts/youtube/youtube-dl --version
2014.01.21

So I upgraded it
/var/packages/DownloadStation/target/ui/hostscript/hosts/youtube/youtube-dl -U
2014.03.17

I can download youtube videos just fine using the CLI/SSH, but downloadstation (Synology web UI for downloads) now just fails to download.

Can any of you guys help me debug it further?

thanks in advance.

[FernandoMiguel]

in case python version is helpful
/usr/bin/python --version
Python 2.7.3

[jaimeMF]

If the problem doesn't happen when using youtube-dl with the command line, the problem may be in downloadstation, I don't think we can help with that.

[FernandoMiguel]

@jaimeMF further help to debug it, or intercept would be ok.
even proper way to downgrade after doing -U, could help me test again

[jaimeMF]

Just follow the download instructions replacing the version with the one you need and changing the destination.
I'm closing the issue. Maybe we have made some change that breaks downloadstation, but without knowing how it uses youtube-dl we can't help.

[FernandoMiguel]

@jaimeMF that's exactly what I'm asking help for, for you to tell me where to look to see how it works...
i see a youtube.php file in that dir, but it looks like binary code

[phihag]

@FernandoMiguel Sorry, youtube-dl is a community project, developed and supported by volunteers. I apologize, but we cannot possibly debug a problem with a closed-source commercial project. Even if we would have the time and interest to debug the DSM problem (instead of all of the youtube-dl problems), we still would have to find and buy the hardware, wouldn't we?

[phihag]

I'll tell you what: If you can (legally) extract the code that's calling youtube-dl and post it here, we may take a look and point out potential problems.

[FernandoMiguel]

@phihag i totally understand. i'll give it a go!
thanks in advance

[FernandoMiguel]

I've uninstalled Download Station, and then installed it manually via package.
you can obtain the file here, in case you want to look at it, and how it uses ytdl
http://global.download.synology.com/download/spk/DownloadStation/3.4-2555/

for future reference, the version that comes bundled with 3.4-2555 is
NAS> /var/packages/DownloadStation/target/ui/hostscript/hosts/youtube/youtube-dl --version
2014.01.23.4