Hi there
I am getting the following error message when trying to add any youtube video
Server Error: Command '[‘youtube-dl’, ‘-e’, u’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9eAtwcYlo’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1
any ideas?
Thanks
Hi there
I am getting the following error message when trying to add any youtube video
Server Error: Command '[‘youtube-dl’, ‘-e’, u’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9eAtwcYlo’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1
any ideas?
Thanks
Hi,
I was facing the same issue lately - looks like the youtube downloader in screenly OSE is outdated.
Check out:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#installation
sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
and a reboot fixed it for me.
Cheers,
Albert
That sounds like the proper soloution, @akimdarov. I imagine that “youtube-dl” is essentially playing Whac-A-Mole with the YouTube team. YouTube blocks them and “youtube-dl” works around it.
sorted it now i reimaged the sd card with the latest version and all is good now
Thanks for your help chaps
Hi I am having issues again downloading any YouTube videos now, any ideas?
My money would be on that it’s either an outdated youtube-dl
or a broken SD card. I’d suggest starting a fresh with a new SD card and the latest developer version.
use 4kdownloader (google it to find their site) to grab the video from YT and then upload it as a regular video. Never have to deal with YT whackamole again. Note, that a lot of videos require you to log into YT (google) and 4KDL has the ability to do that in settings. it has a 99% success rate if you do this.