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UnavailableVideoError in youtube-dl after "RTMPDUMP error" with code you must specify a playpath #3931
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HI
I am getting this error while downloading a video from youtube-dl. Full error trail is shown as below. Kindly help.
I tried the following command
youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_w2jsT6Wc" -v
I am on ubuntu 12.04 and youtube-dl is updated to the latest version
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] OG_w2jsT6Wc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] OG_w2jsT6Wc: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] OG_w2jsT6Wc: Extracting video information
[youtube] RTMP download detected
[download] Destination: Bal Ganesh ►Kids Animation Movie in Bengali-OG_w2jsT6Wc.unknown_video
[debug] rtmpdump command line: rtmpdump --verbose -r rtmpe://v9.nonxt2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback -o 'Bal Ganesh ►Kids Animation Movie in Bengali-OG_w2jsT6Wc.unknown_video.part' --resume --skip 1
[rtmpdump] RTMPDump v2.4
rtmpdump 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsing...
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed protocol: 2
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed host : v9.nonxt2.c.youtube.com
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Parsed app : videoplayback
[rtmpdump] DEBUG: Number of skipped key frames for resume: 1
[rtmpdump] ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playpath") containing a playpath
ERROR: unable to download video
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 985, in download
self.extract_info(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 539, in process_ie_result
return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 766, in process_video_result
self.process_info(new_info)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 961, in process_info
raise UnavailableVideoError(err)
UnavailableVideoError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Bal Ganesh \xe2\x96\xbaKids Animation Movie in Bengali-OG_w2jsT6Wc.unknown_video.part'
Regards
P Nath