Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>]

>
> Try this easy recipe:
>
>    clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0
>    [wait for arrival]
>    mplayer youtube_FwDYbNIHyN0.flv

I installed clive and then tried this:





>
> I use "cclive" for this purpose, and it works. However, "cclive" ismikef@spc2-burn4-0-0-cust110:~$ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0clive 0.4.18 20080715  [Linux]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0&fmt=18                       143.8KB
warn: no-media: switched to low quality
error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/clive", line 28, in <module>
    Clive().main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/main.py", line 50, in main
    Nomad().run(self.opts, self.args, self._say)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 108, in run
    self._check_raw_urls(raw_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 277, in
_check_raw_urls
    self._check_url(url, (index,len(raw_urls)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 377, in
_check_url
    self._found_urls, self._get_proxy())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/parse.py", line 103, in parse
    length = url_data['file_length_callb'](xurl)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/clive/nomad.py", line 422, in
_callb_check_file_len
    raise CliveNoMediaError # Try low quality
CliveNoMediaError: error: no media (http/415)

What is causing this?  Is it that the file is not available to
download or there is too much traffic to get at the file?

I tried downloading a different file and got a similar set of errors a
while back.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

Michael Fothergill


> not avaialable in Lenny as far as I can tell.
>
> "clive" is available for Lenny, and should behave in the same way.
> However, I can not vouch for it because it's not the one I use.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Phil
>

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