ERROR: unable to download video

[4partee]

gelmjw@voyager:~/Videos$ sudo wget https://github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl; sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
[sudo] password for gelmjw:
--2012-12-23 07:01:05-- https://github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl
Resolving github.com... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl [following]
--2012-12-23 07:01:05-- http://cloud.github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl
Resolving cloud.github.com... 54.240.170.106, 54.240.170.144, 54.240.170.166, ...
Connecting to cloud.github.com|54.240.170.106|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 50750 (50K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl'

100%[=======================================================================================================================================>] 50,750 --.-K/s in 0.07s

2012-12-23 07:01:05 (761 KB/s) - `/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl' saved [50750/50750]

gelmjw@voyager:~/Videos$ youtube-dl -u******** -p******** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-e3_31sdM
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Logging in
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] jZ-e3_31sdM: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] jZ-e3_31sdM: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] jZ-e3_31sdM: Extracting video information

ERROR: unable to download video
gelmjw@voyager:/Videos$ date
Sun Dec 23 07:03:07 CST 2012
gelmjw@voyager:/Videos$ python -V
Python 2.6.5
gelmjw@voyager:~/Videos$

[phihag]

Thank you for the precise error report. This video is blocked in Germany by a probably record-setting 13 copyright claims. youtube-dl should output a proper warning though. It works for me from the US at the moment. Can you tell us in which country you are? Is the webpage itself showing up fine in a browser?

[4partee]

On 12/26/2012 11:49 PM, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:

Thank you for the precise error report. This video is blocked in
Germany by a probably record-setting 13 copyright claims. youtube-dl
should output a proper warning though. It works for me from the US at
the moment. Can you tell us in which country you are? Is the webpage
itself showing up fine in a browser?

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The file played on Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 before the error with
youtube-dl. youtube-dl downloaded ok on Dec 24 around 7PM. I am in USA
Central Time Zone, utc -6.

[phihag]

It may be just a transient (network/youtube) error then. Sorry, but without any way to reproduce this - as far as I understand, this problem has been fixed for you as well - we can't really change anything to fix this.

If this error occurs again, please just open another issue. I'll try to react timely and diagnose the problem then. Thanks, and sorry for the delayed answer!