Crunchyroll: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode

[Slyneth]

I can't work with Crunchyroll. Using Yosemite.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'http://www.crunchyroll.com/tesagure-bukatsumono/episode-1-lets-play-with-female-type-battle-robots-and-one-frame-manga-678213', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.6.1, ffprobe 2.6.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Crunchyroll] Logging in
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading webpage
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading media info
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading media info for 360p
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading media info for 480p
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading media info for 720p
[Crunchyroll] 678213: Downloading media info for 1080p
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'rtmpe://cp150757.edgefcs.net/ondemand/?auth=daEbOdxbya_dfdQbYbYandfdWbGdMaVdKc_-bvjocz-dHa-lDGxpqKDCxw&aifp=0009&slist=c17/s/ve1760623/video.mp4'
[download] Destination: Tesagure! 3 Episode 1 – Let's Play With Female-Type Battle Robots and One-Frame Manga-678213.flv
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/main.py", line 19, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 408, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 398, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1446, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 662, in extract_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 708, in process_ie_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1150, in process_video_result
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1379, in process_info
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1354, in dl
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 341, in download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py", line 166, in real_download
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 375, in _debug_cmd
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 371, in
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

This error just started happening to me today.

[Sunako]

Same here

[Slyneth]

After last rtmpdump upgrade, it got fixed for me. rtmpdump 2.4+20150115

[yan12125]

It's indeed youtube-dl's problem, which occurs only with -v option on Python 2.x. As a temporary workaround, remove the -v option.

[dstftw]

I believe this will be fixed in the next version of youtube-dl. Thanks for the report.