EOFError

[volcs0]

Am getting an EOFError with Youtube downloads. I tried some other sites (e.g., SoundCloud), which worked.

Here is the output. I'm guessing this is a Python problem? Advice is appreciated.

$ youtube-dl --verbose --title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4Hjq6KwO0
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--title', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4Hjq6KwO0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.11.19
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/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 410, in main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 377, in _real_main
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 341, in init
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1912, in print_debug_header
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 51, in get_versions
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 35, in init
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 91, in _determine_executables
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py", line 91, in
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1502, in get_exe_version
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1334, in _execute_child
child_exception = pickle.loads(data)
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 1382, in loads
return Unpickler(file).load()
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 858, in load
dispatchkey
File "/Users/volcs0/anaconda/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 880, in load_eof
raise EOFError
EOFError
$

[yan12125]

I guess you've encountered similar problems as #6840. Check comments there.