Video about aussie siege not downloaded.

[franny23dmt]

interestingly no downloader will recognize this video.

OUTPUT

youtube-dl --user-agent Chrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xK9MLLdLU
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: unable to extract categories; please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug
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/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 351, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 341, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1094, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 199, in extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 958, in _real_extract
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ytplayer_config' referenced before assignment

[jaimeMF]

Works fine for me, could you post the output of youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xK9MLLdLU' --verbose? Can you play the video in a browser?

By the way, don't use the --user-agen, it should only be useful for debugging.

[franny23dmt]

sure thing, and thanks for advice. yes i can watch in browser, but non of the good downloaders there even recognize that a video is playing at all. (youtube-dl is by far the best i mean the popular browser plugins) are u from australia? im wondering if region has anything to do with it

QUOTE
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xK9MLLdLU --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xK9MLLdLU', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.11.13
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.16-6, avprobe 9.16-6, ffmpeg 2.5, ffprobe 2.5, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] U0xK9MLLdLU: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: unable to extract categories; please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug
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/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 351, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 341, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1094, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 536, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 199, in extract
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 958, in _real_extract
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ytplayer_config' referenced before assignment
UNQUOTE

[jaimeMF]

You could try using the last version of youtube-dl (see the FAQ for updating).

[phihag]

Given that it works fine for me with the latest version (2014.12.17.2 as of writing) as well, I'm closing this issue. If you can reproduce the problem with the current version of youtube-dl, please comment or open a new issue. Thanks!

[franny23dmt]

thanks, i didnt write the code it asked me to report it , i wouldnt have reported it without ur code request, i prolly would have looked for updates etc. maybe edit ur text IF this is a problem that i posted what you guys asked me to