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youtube-dl package

Please sync the youtube-dl package with the one in Debian

Bug #485442 reported by Peter Shultz
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
youtube-dl (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
youtube-dl (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Rogério Theodoro de Brito
Nominated for Karmic by Rogério Theodoro de Brito
Nominated for Lucid by Rogério Theodoro de Brito

Bug Description

Binary package hint: youtube-dl

(Using version 2008.03.22 in Ubuntu Karmic) Youtube-dl is no longer able to extract the title information using the -t option. It worked fine until around the time of Karmic's release, but now it fails for every video I try.

Here's what I see:
$ youtube-dl -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zegtH-acXE
Retrieving video webpage... done.
Extracting video title... failed.
Error: unable to extract video title.
Try again several times. It may be a temporary problem.
Other typical problems:

* Video no longer exists.
* Video requires age confirmation but you did not provide an account.
* You provided the account data, but it is not valid.
* The connection was cut suddenly for some reason.
* YouTube changed their system, and the program no longer works.

Try to confirm you are able to view the video using a web browser.
Use the same video URL and account information, if needed, with this program.
When using a proxy, make sure http_proxy has http://host:port format.
Try again several times and contact me if the problem persists.

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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote :

The version in karmic is way too old.

The newer version supports many new things and has many bugfixes. Please, take it from Debian's unstable distribution.

Regards.

Changed in youtube-dl (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)
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Peter Shultz (pashultz) wrote :

Thank you! That does work. If anyone else needs it, the direct link is here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/download

Out of curiosity, do you know why this wasn't picked up in the Karmic merge cycle? It looks like the only dependency is Python 2.4.

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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote : Re: [Bug 485442] Re: Youtube-dl can't find video when using the -t option

Hi, Peter.

On Nov 21 2009, Peter Shultz wrote:
> Thank you! That does work.

You're welcome.

> If anyone else needs it, the direct link is here:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/download

That will always have the latest version that I package.

> Out of curiosity, do you know why this wasn't picked up in the Karmic
> merge cycle? It looks like the only dependency is Python 2.4.

I don't quite remember. The only thing that I know is that I still have
some packages in Debian that I requested to be sync'ed with karmic, but
those requests are still there.

Perhaps I didn't follow the proper protocol, but I would appreciate
someone in Ubuntu keeping in touch with me in Debian. More collaboration
would be welcome.

Regards, Rogério Brito.

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Changed in youtube-dl (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote : Re: Youtube-dl can't find video when using the -t option

Just for the record, this has been fixed a long time ago on Debian (I uploaded two newer version of it already) and the release managers have allowed it to enter testing.

I would, therefore, request that this be merged/synced/whatever is the ubuntu-speak for getting the version that I uploaded to Debian's repository.

Regards,

summary: - Youtube-dl can't find video when using the -t option
+ Please sync the youtube-dl package with the one in Debian
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