UnicodeWarning Error

[MrS0m30n3]

Command

youtube-dl -o '/home/user/workplace/test/youtube/βιντεο/%(title)s.%(ext)s' -f 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSOMA3QBU0

Output

[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Extracting video information
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading js player vfl7i9w86
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py:871: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
[download] Destination: /home/user/workplace/test/youtube/βιντεο/Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Official) ft. Juicy J.flv
[download] 100% of 9.25MiB in 00:15

If i change YoutubeDL.py:871 to this

#dn = os.path.dirname(encodeFilename(filename))
dn = os.path.dirname(filename)
if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn):
os.makedirs(dn)

it works fine without UnicodeWarning error.

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Can you post the entire output you get when adding -v to the command line? That output should allow us to reproduce the problem and correct the filename encoding (we can't delete it since it is required on some platforms).

[MrS0m30n3]

Command

youtube-dl -v -o '/home/user/workplace/test/youtube/βιντεο/%(title)s.%(ext)s' -f 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSOMA3QBU0

Output

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-o', '/home/user/workplace/test/youtube/\xce\xb2\xce\xb9\xce\xbd\xcf\x84\xce\xb5\xce\xbf/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', '5', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSOMA3QBU0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.03.30.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.29-i686-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_Mobile_Technology_ML-32-with-slackware-14.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Extracting video information
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Encrypted signatures detected.
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 22, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 43, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 18, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 5, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 36, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 17, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 137, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] 0KSOMA3QBU0: Downloading js player vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 136, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 135, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 134, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 133, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 160, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 140, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 82 (41.40), itag 171, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 137, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 248, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 136, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 247, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 135, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 244, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 134, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 243, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 133, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 242, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 160, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 140, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
[youtube] encrypted signature length 85 (41.43), itag 171, html5 player en_US-vfl7i9w86
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py:871: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
[download] Destination: /home/user/workplace/test/youtube/βιντεο/Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Official) ft. Juicy J.flv
[download] 100% of 9.25MiB in 00:12

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. This should be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.04.03.2. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.

[MrS0m30n3]

It worked. Thank you very much for the fix!