Flash 11.4 breaks youtube-dl - ERROR: RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run

[nawman]

I am using window 7 and rg3-youtube-dl-2012.09.27 it was working fine utill I installed some other apps.

Now I get - ERROR: RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run.

I think this has ned after installing the lastest Flash 11.4.

What can I do to get working again

[FiloSottile]

Download http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/download/rtmpdump-2.3-windows.zip and install (copy) the exe files in a directory in your PATH, for example C:\Windows\System32

[nawman]

I tried as you suggested and copied the rtmp exe's to C:\Windows\System32 however the error is still occuring

[phihag]

if you go into a commandline (with Win+R, cmd, Enter), and enter rtmpdump, what output do you get? And what output do you get if you enter echo %PATH% in the command line?

[nawman]

What I dont understand is that it was working before without rtmpdump installed. So why is it required now?

Here is the log of the commands

C:\Windows\system32>rtmpdump
RTMPDump v2.4-41-g7bae82a
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: You must specify a hostname (--host) or url (-r "rtmp://host[:port]/playp
ath") containing a hostname

C:\Windows\system32>echo %PATH%
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Symbian\Tools;D:\Perl\bin;C:\Program Files
(x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86_64;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86;C:\Program Files
\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32
\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows
Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\AMSP;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Techno
logies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;

[phihag]

Downloading works fine without rtmpdump if the video hosting service (e.g. youtube) uses HTTP to serve the video.

The output looks puzzling; running rtmpdump seems to work fine already. I'll try to reproduce it.

Can you provide the entire command line you're using to run youtube-dl?

[nawman]

I have uninstalled python and then reinstalled again. The rtmpdump error is not coming up now.

now I just get a plain ERROR: unable to download video

youtube-dl.py -l http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RkKoxyNsV4

[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] 9RkKoxyNsV4: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 9RkKoxyNsV4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 9RkKoxyNsV4: Extracting video information
[youtube] RTMP download detected
[download] Destination: Bagh Bandi Khela-9RkKoxyNsV4.flv

ERROR: unable to download video

[dstftw]

Duplicate of #343.