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Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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i can't download anything.
tried to update it too.


thank you
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Re: Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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charroo wrote:
tried to update it too.
How did you try to update it? I update mine by using the wget method here:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
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Re: Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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Schultz wrote:
charroo wrote:
tried to update it too.
How did you try to update it? I update mine by using the wget method here:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

still get an error:

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[download] 100% of 3.18MiB
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in
.
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ERROR: 
i've also tried:

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sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
That will upgrade youtube-dl. If you get this message:

sudo: pip: command not found
try

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
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Re: Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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I installed youtube-dl with the method on the page that Schultz linked to, and update it with sudo youtube-dl -U in the terminal. Don't even try to use the version in the Mint repositories. (If that's what you have, uninstall it.) It's old, and since the various video sites change their systems regularly, you must have the latest version of youtube-dl at all times. When Youtube or some other site changes something, the geeks have it figured out and release an update within days.

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
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Re: Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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after

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sudo youtube-dl -U
it began workinga again

thank you all
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Re: Any recent trouble with youtube-dl?

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two problems

when downloading playlist:
it stopping to respond when deleting a file

also:
when i listen to files i've downloaded in the past my android is having problems with reading the mp3's
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