Unable to rename file

[ostal]

Hi there,

I got his error today

C:\Users\Zajac\Downloads>youtube-dl.py -c -w -f 34 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a aa.txt
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Heaven :Bryan Adams.flv
[download] 100.0% of 11.75M at 72.92k/s ETA 00:00
ERROR: unable to rename file

C:\Users\Zajac\Downloads>

the file that i found in the youtube-dl directory was "Heaven".

[phihag]

When you include %(title)s in the file template, you advise youtube-dl to use the literal title, without changing any characters. You are looking for %(stitle)s, which replaces colons with an underscore.

Where did you find %(title)s ? The output of youtube-dl --help doesn't even mention it since it's pretty obscure.

I think we should rename %(title)s to %(literal_title)s. The literal title could be useful if you're executing youtube-dl on top of a virtual filesystem, but that's a pretty esoteric use case.

[ostal]

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I have found the %(title)s in the documentation :
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/documentation.html
under Output template

when i replaced the title with lireral_title i got the fallowing error

C:\Users\Zajac\Downloads>youtube-dl.py -c -w -f 34 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(literal_title)s.%(ext)s" -a aa.txt
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] u_x0e-JOhdU: Extracting video information
ERROR: invalid system charset or erroneous output template

while %(stitle)s works fine.

Thanks!

[phihag]

Oops, the documentation should have never mentioned %(title)s. Fixed it.

%(literal_title)s doesn't exist yet, I just suggested that we rename the current %(title)s to that.

[5moufl]

What to use so it does not replace spaces with underscores (which I find ugly as hell). I currently use %(title)s