Comments on: Youtube-dl - Download videos from youtube in Ubuntu

By: box_out

box_out — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:42:38 +0000

yeah the default download directory is not the default dir4ctory? cannot see videos anywhere….

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By: praveen

praveen — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:10:49 +0000

youtube-dl -o test.mp4 “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jSZJpzuDI”

By: haritha

haritha — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:15:02 +0000

how to choose the destination folder..nd where to see the downloaded videos

By: venky

venky — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:47:10 +0000

ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info

By: Philipp Hagemeister

Philipp Hagemeister — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:12:42 +0000

You need to download and install rtmpdump ( http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ ).

By: juska

juska — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:57:10 +0000

Ok, “youtube-dl -U” did the trick, thanks for help!

By: juska

juska — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:55:22 +0000

I just run the update and get exactly the same error message.

By: yash k

yash k — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:37:31 +0000

No it’s not getting updated it gives error as

youtube-dl --update
Updating to latest stable version…
ERROR: unable to download latest version
…. and it’s not downloading as well

By: daniel ndubi

daniel ndubi — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:04:12 +0000

Just run the update and everything will be OK:
#youtube-dl --update

By: yash k

yash k — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:52:13 +0000

dell@dell:~$ [youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Mq-UTP9YU_Q: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] Mq-UTP9YU_Q: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Mq-UTP9YU_Q: Extracting video information
ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info
then just cursor remains blinking idk what is wrong. help me with this I tried to update but
response i got was ---->

dell@dell:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U
Updating to latest stable version…
ERROR: unable to download latest version

Thanking in anticipation

By: yash k

yash k — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:51:23 +0000

dell@dell:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U
Updating to latest stable version…
ERROR: unable to download latest version

By: spidy

spidy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:24:21 +0000

1. #apt-get install youtube-dl
2. #youtube-dl --update
3.Following works for me..
#youtube-dl -o test.mp4 “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jSZJpzuDI”

“Good Luck”

By: srinivas

srinivas — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:17:34 +0000

RTMP download detected but “rtmpdump” could not be run
what i am do that now to over come this problem

By: Shrinu Kushagra

Shrinu Kushagra — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:41:13 +0000

The video is downloaded in your home folder.
PATH : /home/your_user_name/

By: Aneesh

Aneesh — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:31:02 +0000

The same problem for me wiht ubuntu 11.04. How to solve this ?

By: AAJ

AAJ — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:12:19 +0000

aaj@aaj:~$ youtube-dl “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcdFd0MmH0”
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/youtube-dl”, line 1841, in
retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
File “/usr/bin/youtube-dl”, line 455, in download
ie.extract(url)
File “/usr/bin/youtube-dl”, line 630, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File “/usr/bin/youtube-dl”, line 1345, in _real_extract
self._downloader.trouble(u’ERROR: Invalid URL: %s’ % url)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
PLZ HELP

By: manish

manish — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:52:26 +0000

it’s not working it is showing like this..
please tell the solution

manish@manish-Vostro-1014:~$ sudo youtube-dl-U
[sudo] password for manish:
sudo: youtube-dl-U: command not found
manish@manish-Vostro-1014:~$

By: Armando

Armando — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:18:51 +0000

Works perfect!!!
Thanks a lot.

By: thomas

thomas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:09:19 +0000

great! thanks a lot

By: karun

karun — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:14:27 +0000

thanku very much, it worked a lot.