commit b8b928d5cb5d21390690cc21c29a3d679605015f parent 3eff81fbf72939abf885afcca2f1155cc976999b Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:54:45 +0100 [README] Add an FAQ entry for the player change in anticipation of many more bug reports Diffstat:
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -515,11 +515,15 @@ If you want to play the video on a machine that is not running youtube-dl, you c ### ERROR: no fmt_url_map or conn information found in video info -youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. +YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl. ### ERROR: unable to download video ### -youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`. +YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl. + +### ExtractorError: Could not find JS function u'OF' + +In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence in a string that was misinterpreted by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl. ### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ###