diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index 0f9926004..6387e1623 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
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
(or python youtube-dl --update
).
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
(or python youtube-dl --update
).
The error
+
+File "youtube-dl", line 2
+SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
+
+means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out and run it like this:
+
+git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
+cd youtube-dl
+python -m youtube-dl --help
+
+Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.