Encoding UTF-8 ?

[Soroid]

I'm having an issue downloading this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FossRRU9Ppw
It would appear that the error occurs because of the the weird symbols this youtube channel uses on every video.

Here's a picture of the error
http://gyazo.com/6e36eb251981f942241422d7d7330037

Here's a thread that already has a lot of info on my issue. (I posted on ffmpeg first)
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1967&sid=33c585e2fbaf8c483a3d1db42e785ff3

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The proposed solution was
youtube-dl -f 17 --add-metadata --encoding utf-8 FossRRU9Ppw

However, even though that worked for the other person. This did not work for me. But when i look at youtube-dl documentation i don't see this
" --encoding utf-8"
option at all...

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I can reproduce the error with youtube-dl -f 17 --add-metadata --id -x FossRRU9Ppw.

[phihag]

This should be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.05.16.1. Type youtube-dl -U to update. Again, thanks for reporting this issue!

[Soroid]

http://gyazo.com/76a7a2ffdb5a4225c71403fe5988b114 nope still happening

What version of python are you using?

[phihag]

Can you post the output you get when you add -v to the command line? I've tested with Python 2.7.

[phihag]

Works fine with the current exe for me as well. We'll need the verbose (-v) output to be able to reproduce this issue.

[Soroid]

[code]
C:\youtube-dl>youtube-dl -f 17 --add-metadata --id -x FossRRU9Ppw -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', '17', '--add-metadata', '--id', '-x', 'FossRRU
9Ppw', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] FossRRU9Ppw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FossRRU9Ppw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] FossRRU9Ppw: Extracting video information
[download] FossRRU9Ppw.3gp has already been downloaded
[ffmpeg] Adding metadata to 'FossRRU9Ppw.3gp'
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i FossRRU9Ppw.3gp -c copy -metadata arti
st=xKitoMusic -metadata 'title=【Trap】Jhene Aiko - Comfort Inn (Eliminate Remix)
[Free Download]' FossRRU9Ppw.temp.3gp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 18, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 849, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 839, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1039, in download
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 527, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 564, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 819, in process_video_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1021, in process_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1073, in post_process
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 476, in run
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 64, in run_ffmpeg
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 56, in run_ffmpeg_multiple_fi
les
File "subprocess.pyo", line 711, in init
File "subprocess.pyo", line 948, in _execute_child
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u3010' in position 8
2: ordinal not in range(128)

C:\youtube-dl>
[/code]

Sorry for the delay, this week was a busy one for me

I'm using python 2.7.6

[jaimeMF]

You are running an outdated version, it should be fixed in 2014.05.16.1 or newer. Run youtube-dl -U to update.

[phihag]

As @jaimeMF, you need to update youtube-dl to a newer version since the fix for this problem has only been integrated into a newer version.

[Soroid]

The problem ensues in a different form now.

C:\youtube-dl>youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNxNIzVAXo" -f best -
x --no-mtime --add-metadata -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNxNIzVAXo', '-f',
'best', '-x', '--no-mtime', '--add-metadata', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.05.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] _qNxNIzVAXo: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _qNxNIzVAXo: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] _qNxNIzVAXo: Extracting video information
[download] 【Drum&Bass】BMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen - All My Love-_qNxNIzVAXo.mp4 ha
s already been downloaded
[ffmpeg] Adding metadata to '【Drum&Bass】BMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen - All My Love-
_qNxNIzVAXo.mp4'
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i 'Drum&BassBMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen -
All My Love-_qNxNIzVAXo.mp4' -c copy -metadata date=20140520 -metadata 'artist=x
Kito Music' -metadata 'title=Drum&BassBMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen - All My Love' '
Drum&BassBMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen - All My Love-_qNxNIzVAXo.temp.mp4'
ERROR: Drum&BassBMotion ft. Jon Lilygreen - All My Love-_qNxNIzVAXo.mp4: No such
file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1073, in post_process
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 477, in run
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 65, in run_ffmpeg
File "youtube_dl\postprocessor\ffmpeg.pyo", line 62, in run_ffmpeg_multiple_fi
les
FFmpegPostProcessorError

C:\youtube-dl>

[rmunn]

I can confirm that the problem appears to be Windows-specific; running youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNxNIzVAXo" -f best -x --no-mtime --add-metadata -v worked just fine for me on Linux Mint 17 (using both the version of youtube-dl included in Linux Mint 17, version 2014.02.17, and also the latest available at this time, version 2014.06.02).

Also, when running this command on Linux, it did not strip the 【 and 】 characters as it appears to have done on Windows.