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WARNING: Parameter outtmpl is bytes... when running youtube-dl #5401

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bonez565 opened this issue Apr 11, 2015 · 1 comment
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WARNING: Parameter outtmpl is bytes... when running youtube-dl #5401

bonez565 opened this issue Apr 11, 2015 · 1 comment

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@bonez565 bonez565 commented Apr 11, 2015

After the most recent update (2015.04.09) i've been getting the following error: "WARNING: Parameter outtmpl is bytes, but should be a unicode string. Put from future import unicode_literals at the top of your code file or consider switching to Python 3.x."

Debug info below:

C:\Users\user\Documents\Youtube Downloads>youtube-dl.exe -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--update', '--ignore-errors', '--no-overwrites', '--batch
-file', 'C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\Youtube Downloads\\Filelist.txt', '--output
', 'C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\Youtube Downloads\\Videos/%(uploader)s - %(title
)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v']
[debug] Batch file urls: []
WARNING: Parameter outtmpl is bytes, but should be a unicode string. Put  from _
_future__ import unicode_literals  at the top of your code file or consider swit
ching to Python 3.x.
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out None, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.04.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-70441-gdcf7924
[debug] Proxy map: {}
@dstftw dstftw closed this in b04b94d Apr 11, 2015
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@dstftw dstftw commented Apr 11, 2015

Will be fixed in the next version. Thanks for the report.

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