[CLOSED] youtube-dl needs update

hello,
the youtube-dl from repo is: 2016.02.22
but this did not work.
Is it possible to update the repo ?

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/........
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Extracting video information
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 905, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 797, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vfle90bgw/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vfle90bgw/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.



did a test with Version: 2017.06.18 and this works.

./youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/......
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Extracting video information
[youtube] 2z56LSc0J7A: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Destination: VideoName.webm
[download] 14.2% of 3.52MiB at 840.58KiB/s ETA 00:03

Thanks

Try 'Video DownloadHelper' add-on in Firefox.

Or VLC stream/converter?

thank you, but youtube-dl is nice (if it works)

Hi try this and let us know if it works:

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

Also a GUI called youtube-dlg that is nice

SMplayer with YouTube used to work with great GUI.

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 ... 4-via-ppa/

thanks to all, I like to know the responsable for the package, may he / she will update it

Maybe this will answer your questions

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/ ... DME.md#faq

Hi ds2k5, can this thread be [CLOSED]?

yes thanks