Unable to download some GDC videos.

[antdude]

Examples I tried to download:
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015301/Thexder-Meets-Windows-95-or
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014234/Excerpt-Quake-Postmortem-Optimizing-Level
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014235/Excerpt-Quake-Postmortem-Polygons-As
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014236/Quake-A-Post-Mortem-and
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016642/Half-Life-and-Team-Fortress
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018260/The-Evolution-of-a-Franchise
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/5/How-to-Rule-the-World
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016446/5-Things-About-American-Online
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016460/Classic-Postmortem-GoldenEye
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020815/Making-Weird-Games-for-Weird
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020246/You-Own-the-Game-but

$ youtube-dl -v http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015301/Thexder-Meets-Windows-95-or
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015301/Thexder-Meets-Windows-95-or']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.07.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[GDCVault] 1015301: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [GDCVault] It looks like http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015301 requires a login. Try specifying a username and password and try again.
WARNING: [GDCVault] Could not login.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 857, in main

File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 847, in _real_main

File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1052, in download
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 516, in extract_info
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 169, in extract
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/gdcvault.py", line 117, in _real_extract
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 399, in _html_search_regex
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 372, in _search_regex
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 142, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

There is no log in required. Also, I retried with v2014.07.25. Thank you in advance. :)

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. Fixed in youtube-dl 2014.07.25.1, which is being released right now. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.

[antdude]

Thanks. It seems to work now. :)