youtube-dl

commit: 23566e0d783367dc92c0bfc7f907ef63e1ade658
parent 828553b614e091c181a519db9c451c133011016b
Author: Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon,  9 Jun 2014 20:23:20 +0200

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.

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/downloader/hls.py
2
+-
M
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
@@ -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
@@ -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