Sirgazil, Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC.
While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so bad (complete silence, not even a ‘please install...’ hint) that I've patched youtube-viewer to unconditionally refer to youtube-dl on master.
Kind regards, T G-R
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