Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: Since your URL contains ampersands, it gets interpreted by your shell as a request to put a command in the background. Can you please try with the URL enclosed in quotes? Oh, right, sorry. Yes, indeed, it works now. Thanks.

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Faheem. 2010/2/24 Faheem Mitha : > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: >> No, I won't gratuitously tag anything wontfix on my packages. :-) >> That's why I tagged it moreinfo. :-) Anyway, you seem to be using a >> very, very old version of youtube-dl, that has many problems. > > Thanks f

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, Faheem. 2010/2/24 Faheem Mitha : Just to be clear, we're talking about the url that http://tinyurl.com/yz8ypxx points to, namely http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&eurl=http%3A//www.youtube.com/user/MikeyCoooL%23p/a/73B7A33BE

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Faheem. 2010/2/24 Faheem Mitha : > Just to be clear, we're talking about the url that > http://tinyurl.com/yz8ypxx points to, namely > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&eurl=http%3A//www.youtube.com/user/MikeyCoooL%23p/a/73B7A33BE199C96B/0/pfrjcVD_YjI&v=pfrjcVD_YjI > Not

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: tags 570837 moreinfo thanks Hi, Faheem. 2010/2/21 Faheem Mitha : youtube-dl -b 'http://tinyurl.com/yz8ypxx' -o jordan_jen.mp4 Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug. Actually, I don't see why this is a bug with

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-24 Thread Rogério Brito
tags 570837 moreinfo thanks Hi, Faheem. 2010/2/21 Faheem Mitha : > youtube-dl -b 'http://tinyurl.com/yz8ypxx' -o jordan_jen.mp4 > > Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a > bug. Actually, I don't see why this is a bug with youtube-dl, since that is not exactly a l

Bug#570837: youtube-dl: fails with legal youtube url

2010-02-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2008.03.22-1 Severity: normal youtube-dl -b 'http://tinyurl.com/yz8ypxx' -o jordan_jen.mp4 Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (5