From 23566e0d783367dc92c0bfc7f907ef63e1ade658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:23:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rtmp and hls downloaders: Clarify error message when the external tools are not installed Ask to install them, as we do in the postprocessor. We get some reports with it, like #3061 or #3048. --- youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py | 2 +- youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py index 9d407fe6e..9f29e2f81 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py +++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class HlsFD(FileDownloader): except (OSError, IOError): pass else: - self.report_error(u'm3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found') + self.report_error(u'm3u8 download detected but ffmpeg or avconv could not be found. Please install one.') cmd = [program] + args retval = subprocess.call(cmd) diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py index cc6a84106..68646709a 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py +++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/rtmp.py @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class RtmpFD(FileDownloader): try: subprocess.call(['rtmpdump', '-h'], stdout=(open(os.path.devnull, 'w')), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) except (OSError, IOError): - self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run') + self.report_error('RTMP download detected but "rtmpdump" could not be run. Please install it.') return False # Download using rtmpdump. rtmpdump returns exit code 2 when