]> Raphaël G. Git Repositories - youtubedl/blobdiff - youtube-dl
First step of creating the new package.
[youtubedl] / youtube-dl
index 47c64658631ca9581ff62f344aca60595c398e49..50d83cf2d5905cb029639604aa78e06ce7227289 100755 (executable)
@@ -1,9 +1,27 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Author: Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez
-# Author: Danny Colligan
-# Author: Benjamin Johnson
-# License: Public domain code
+
+__author__  = (
+       'Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez',
+       'Danny Colligan',
+       'Benjamin Johnson',
+       'Vasyl\' Vavrychuk',
+       'Witold Baryluk',
+       'Paweł Paprota',
+       'Gergely Imreh',
+       'Rogério Brito',
+       'Philipp Hagemeister',
+       'Sören Schulze',
+       )
+
+__license__ = 'Public Domain'
+__version__ = '2011.09.14'
+
+UPDATE_URL = 'https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl'
+
+import cookielib
+import datetime
+import gzip
 import htmlentitydefs
 import httplib
 import locale
@@ -19,6 +37,20 @@ import sys
 import time
 import urllib
 import urllib2
+import warnings
+import zlib
+
+if os.name == 'nt':
+       import ctypes
+
+try:
+       import email.utils
+except ImportError: # Python 2.4
+       import email.Utils
+try:
+       import cStringIO as StringIO
+except ImportError:
+       import StringIO
 
 # parse_qs was moved from the cgi module to the urlparse module recently.
 try:
@@ -26,15 +58,139 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
        from cgi import parse_qs
 
+try:
+       import lxml.etree
+except ImportError:
+       pass # Handled below
+
+try:
+       import xml.etree.ElementTree
+except ImportError: # Python<2.5
+       pass # Not officially supported, but let it slip
+
 std_headers = {
-       'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6',
+       'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1',
        'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
-       'Accept': 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5',
+       'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
+       'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
        'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
 
 simple_title_chars = string.ascii_letters.decode('ascii') + string.digits.decode('ascii')
 
+try:
+       import json
+except ImportError: # Python <2.6, use trivialjson (https://github.com/phihag/trivialjson):
+       import re
+       class json(object):
+               @staticmethod
+               def loads(s):
+                       s = s.decode('UTF-8')
+                       def raiseError(msg, i):
+                               raise ValueError(msg + ' at position ' + str(i) + ' of ' + repr(s) + ': ' + repr(s[i:]))
+                       def skipSpace(i, expectMore=True):
+                               while i < len(s) and s[i] in ' \t\r\n':
+                                       i += 1
+                               if expectMore:
+                                       if i >= len(s):
+                                               raiseError('Premature end', i)
+                               return i
+                       def decodeEscape(match):
+                               esc = match.group(1)
+                               _STATIC = {
+                                       '"': '"',
+                                       '\\': '\\',
+                                       '/': '/',
+                                       'b': unichr(0x8),
+                                       'f': unichr(0xc),
+                                       'n': '\n',
+                                       'r': '\r',
+                                       't': '\t',
+                               }
+                               if esc in _STATIC:
+                                       return _STATIC[esc]
+                               if esc[0] == 'u':
+                                       if len(esc) == 1+4:
+                                               return unichr(int(esc[1:5], 16))
+                                       if len(esc) == 5+6 and esc[5:7] == '\\u':
+                                               hi = int(esc[1:5], 16)
+                                               low = int(esc[7:11], 16)
+                                               return unichr((hi - 0xd800) * 0x400 + low - 0xdc00 + 0x10000)
+                               raise ValueError('Unknown escape ' + str(esc))
+                       def parseString(i):
+                               i += 1
+                               e = i
+                               while True:
+                                       e = s.index('"', e)
+                                       bslashes = 0
+                                       while s[e-bslashes-1] == '\\':
+                                               bslashes += 1
+                                       if bslashes % 2 == 1:
+                                               e += 1
+                                               continue
+                                       break
+                               rexp = re.compile(r'\\(u[dD][89aAbB][0-9a-fA-F]{2}\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}|u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}|.|$)')
+                               stri = rexp.sub(decodeEscape, s[i:e])
+                               return (e+1,stri)
+                       def parseObj(i):
+                               i += 1
+                               res = {}
+                               i = skipSpace(i)
+                               if s[i] == '}': # Empty dictionary
+                                       return (i+1,res)
+                               while True:
+                                       if s[i] != '"':
+                                               raiseError('Expected a string object key', i)
+                                       i,key = parseString(i)
+                                       i = skipSpace(i)
+                                       if i >= len(s) or s[i] != ':':
+                                               raiseError('Expected a colon', i)
+                                       i,val = parse(i+1)
+                                       res[key] = val
+                                       i = skipSpace(i)
+                                       if s[i] == '}':
+                                               return (i+1, res)
+                                       if s[i] != ',':
+                                               raiseError('Expected comma or closing curly brace', i)
+                                       i = skipSpace(i+1)
+                       def parseArray(i):
+                               res = []
+                               i = skipSpace(i+1)
+                               if s[i] == ']': # Empty array
+                                       return (i+1,res)
+                               while True:
+                                       i,val = parse(i)
+                                       res.append(val)
+                                       i = skipSpace(i) # Raise exception if premature end
+                                       if s[i] == ']':
+                                               return (i+1, res)
+                                       if s[i] != ',':
+                                               raiseError('Expected a comma or closing bracket', i)
+                                       i = skipSpace(i+1)
+                       def parseDiscrete(i):
+                               for k,v in {'true': True, 'false': False, 'null': None}.items():
+                                       if s.startswith(k, i):
+                                               return (i+len(k), v)
+                               raiseError('Not a boolean (or null)', i)
+                       def parseNumber(i):
+                               mobj = re.match('^(-?(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.[0-9]*)?([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?)', s[i:])
+                               if mobj is None:
+                                       raiseError('Not a number', i)
+                               nums = mobj.group(1)
+                               if '.' in nums or 'e' in nums or 'E' in nums:
+                                       return (i+len(nums), float(nums))
+                               return (i+len(nums), int(nums))
+                       CHARMAP = {'{': parseObj, '[': parseArray, '"': parseString, 't': parseDiscrete, 'f': parseDiscrete, 'n': parseDiscrete}
+                       def parse(i):
+                               i = skipSpace(i)
+                               i,res = CHARMAP.get(s[i], parseNumber)(i)
+                               i = skipSpace(i, False)
+                               return (i,res)
+                       i,res = parse(0)
+                       if i < len(s):
+                               raise ValueError('Extra data at end of input (index ' + str(i) + ' of ' + repr(s) + ': ' + repr(s[i:]) + ')')
+                       return res
+
 def preferredencoding():
        """Get preferred encoding.
 
@@ -51,9 +207,10 @@ def preferredencoding():
                        yield pref
        return yield_preferredencoding().next()
 
+
 def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
        """Transforms an HTML entity to a Unicode character.
-       
+
        This function receives a match object and is intended to be used with
        the re.sub() function.
        """
@@ -77,11 +234,13 @@ def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
        # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
        return (u'&%s;' % entity)
 
+
 def sanitize_title(utitle):
        """Sanitizes a video title so it could be used as part of a filename."""
        utitle = re.sub(ur'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, utitle)
        return utitle.replace(unicode(os.sep), u'%')
 
+
 def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
        """Try to open the given filename, and slightly tweak it if this fails.
 
@@ -93,26 +252,41 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
        It returns the tuple (stream, definitive_file_name).
        """
        try:
+               if filename == u'-':
+                       if sys.platform == 'win32':
+                               import msvcrt
+                               msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
+                       return (sys.stdout, filename)
                stream = open(filename, open_mode)
                return (stream, filename)
        except (IOError, OSError), err:
                # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
-               filename = re.sub(ur'[<>:"\|\?\*]', u'#', filename)
+               filename = re.sub(ur'[/<>:"\|\?\*]', u'#', filename)
 
                # An exception here should be caught in the caller
                stream = open(filename, open_mode)
                return (stream, filename)
 
 
+def timeconvert(timestr):
+       """Convert RFC 2822 defined time string into system timestamp"""
+       timestamp = None
+       timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(timestr)
+       if timetuple is not None:
+               timestamp = email.utils.mktime_tz(timetuple)
+       return timestamp
+
+
 class DownloadError(Exception):
        """Download Error exception.
-       
+
        This exception may be thrown by FileDownloader objects if they are not
        configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
        error message.
        """
        pass
 
+
 class SameFileError(Exception):
        """Same File exception.
 
@@ -121,6 +295,7 @@ class SameFileError(Exception):
        """
        pass
 
+
 class PostProcessingError(Exception):
        """Post Processing exception.
 
@@ -129,7 +304,8 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
        """
        pass
 
-class UnavailableFormatError(Exception):
+
+class UnavailableVideoError(Exception):
        """Unavailable Format exception.
 
        This exception will be thrown when a video is requested
@@ -137,6 +313,7 @@ class UnavailableFormatError(Exception):
        """
        pass
 
+
 class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
        """Content Too Short exception.
 
@@ -152,6 +329,66 @@ class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
                self.downloaded = downloaded
                self.expected = expected
 
+
+class YoutubeDLHandler(urllib2.HTTPHandler):
+       """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
+
+       This class, when installed with an OpenerDirector, automatically adds
+       the standard headers to every HTTP request and handles gzipped and
+       deflated responses from web servers. If compression is to be avoided in
+       a particular request, the original request in the program code only has
+       to include the HTTP header "Youtubedl-No-Compression", which will be
+       removed before making the real request.
+
+       Part of this code was copied from:
+
+       http://techknack.net/python-urllib2-handlers/
+
+       Andrew Rowls, the author of that code, agreed to release it to the
+       public domain.
+       """
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def deflate(data):
+               try:
+                       return zlib.decompress(data, -zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+               except zlib.error:
+                       return zlib.decompress(data)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def addinfourl_wrapper(stream, headers, url, code):
+               if hasattr(urllib2.addinfourl, 'getcode'):
+                       return urllib2.addinfourl(stream, headers, url, code)
+               ret = urllib2.addinfourl(stream, headers, url)
+               ret.code = code
+               return ret
+
+       def http_request(self, req):
+               for h in std_headers:
+                       if h in req.headers:
+                               del req.headers[h]
+                       req.add_header(h, std_headers[h])
+               if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in req.headers:
+                       if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers:
+                               del req.headers['Accept-encoding']
+                       del req.headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
+               return req
+
+       def http_response(self, req, resp):
+               old_resp = resp
+               # gzip
+               if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'gzip':
+                       gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(resp.read()), mode='r')
+                       resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+                       resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+               # deflate
+               if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'deflate':
+                       gz = StringIO.StringIO(self.deflate(resp.read()))
+                       resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+                       resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+               return resp
+
+
 class FileDownloader(object):
        """File Downloader class.
 
@@ -179,43 +416,51 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
        Available options:
 
-       username:       Username for authentication purposes.
-       password:       Password for authentication purposes.
-       usenetrc:       Use netrc for authentication instead.
-       quiet:          Do not print messages to stdout.
-       forceurl:       Force printing final URL.
-       forcetitle:     Force printing title.
-       simulate:       Do not download the video files.
-       format:         Video format code.
-       outtmpl:        Template for output names.
-       ignoreerrors:   Do not stop on download errors.
-       ratelimit:      Download speed limit, in bytes/sec.
-       nooverwrites:   Prevent overwriting files.
-       continuedl:     Try to continue downloads if possible.
+       username:         Username for authentication purposes.
+       password:         Password for authentication purposes.
+       usenetrc:         Use netrc for authentication instead.
+       quiet:            Do not print messages to stdout.
+       forceurl:         Force printing final URL.
+       forcetitle:       Force printing title.
+       forcethumbnail:   Force printing thumbnail URL.
+       forcedescription: Force printing description.
+       forcefilename:    Force printing final filename.
+       simulate:         Do not download the video files.
+       format:           Video format code.
+       format_limit:     Highest quality format to try.
+       outtmpl:          Template for output names.
+       ignoreerrors:     Do not stop on download errors.
+       ratelimit:        Download speed limit, in bytes/sec.
+       nooverwrites:     Prevent overwriting files.
+       retries:          Number of times to retry for HTTP error 5xx
+       continuedl:       Try to continue downloads if possible.
+       noprogress:       Do not print the progress bar.
+       playliststart:    Playlist item to start at.
+       playlistend:      Playlist item to end at.
+       logtostderr:      Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
+       consoletitle:     Display progress in console window's titlebar.
+       nopart:           Do not use temporary .part files.
+       updatetime:       Use the Last-modified header to set output file timestamps.
+       writedescription: Write the video description to a .description file
+       writeinfojson:    Write the video description to a .info.json file
        """
 
        params = None
        _ies = []
        _pps = []
        _download_retcode = None
+       _num_downloads = None
+       _screen_file = None
 
        def __init__(self, params):
                """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options."""
                self._ies = []
                self._pps = []
                self._download_retcode = 0
+               self._num_downloads = 0
+               self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)]
                self.params = params
-       
-       @staticmethod
-       def pmkdir(filename):
-               """Create directory components in filename. Similar to Unix "mkdir -p"."""
-               components = filename.split(os.sep)
-               aggregate = [os.sep.join(components[0:x]) for x in xrange(1, len(components))]
-               aggregate = ['%s%s' % (x, os.sep) for x in aggregate] # Finish names with separator
-               for dir in aggregate:
-                       if not os.path.exists(dir):
-                               os.mkdir(dir)
-       
+
        @staticmethod
        def format_bytes(bytes):
                if bytes is None:
@@ -227,7 +472,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                else:
                        exponent = long(math.log(bytes, 1024.0))
                suffix = 'bkMGTPEZY'[exponent]
-               converted = float(bytes) / float(1024**exponent)
+               converted = float(bytes) / float(1024 ** exponent)
                return '%.2f%s' % (converted, suffix)
 
        @staticmethod
@@ -280,36 +525,42 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                multiplier = 1024.0 ** 'bkmgtpezy'.index(matchobj.group(2).lower())
                return long(round(number * multiplier))
 
-       @staticmethod
-       def verify_url(url):
-               """Verify a URL is valid and data could be downloaded. Return real data URL."""
-               request = urllib2.Request(url, None, std_headers)
-               data = urllib2.urlopen(request)
-               data.read(1)
-               url = data.geturl()
-               data.close()
-               return url
-
        def add_info_extractor(self, ie):
                """Add an InfoExtractor object to the end of the list."""
                self._ies.append(ie)
                ie.set_downloader(self)
-       
+
        def add_post_processor(self, pp):
                """Add a PostProcessor object to the end of the chain."""
                self._pps.append(pp)
                pp.set_downloader(self)
-       
-       def to_stdout(self, message, skip_eol=False):
+
+       def to_screen(self, message, skip_eol=False, ignore_encoding_errors=False):
                """Print message to stdout if not in quiet mode."""
-               if not self.params.get('quiet', False):
-                       print (u'%s%s' % (message, [u'\n', u''][skip_eol])).encode(preferredencoding()),
-                       sys.stdout.flush()
-       
+               try:
+                       if not self.params.get('quiet', False):
+                               terminator = [u'\n', u''][skip_eol]
+                               print >>self._screen_file, (u'%s%s' % (message, terminator)).encode(preferredencoding()),
+                       self._screen_file.flush()
+               except (UnicodeEncodeError), err:
+                       if not ignore_encoding_errors:
+                               raise
+
        def to_stderr(self, message):
                """Print message to stderr."""
                print >>sys.stderr, message.encode(preferredencoding())
-       
+
+       def to_cons_title(self, message):
+               """Set console/terminal window title to message."""
+               if not self.params.get('consoletitle', False):
+                       return
+               if os.name == 'nt' and ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetConsoleWindow():
+                       # c_wchar_p() might not be necessary if `message` is
+                       # already of type unicode()
+                       ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleW(ctypes.c_wchar_p(message))
+               elif 'TERM' in os.environ:
+                       sys.stderr.write('\033]0;%s\007' % message.encode(preferredencoding()))
+
        def fixed_template(self):
                """Checks if the output template is fixed."""
                return (re.search(ur'(?u)%\(.+?\)s', self.params['outtmpl']) is None)
@@ -340,82 +591,186 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                if speed > rate_limit:
                        time.sleep((byte_counter - rate_limit * (now - start_time)) / rate_limit)
 
+       def temp_name(self, filename):
+               """Returns a temporary filename for the given filename."""
+               if self.params.get('nopart', False) or filename == u'-' or \
+                               (os.path.exists(filename) and not os.path.isfile(filename)):
+                       return filename
+               return filename + u'.part'
+
+       def undo_temp_name(self, filename):
+               if filename.endswith(u'.part'):
+                       return filename[:-len(u'.part')]
+               return filename
+
+       def try_rename(self, old_filename, new_filename):
+               try:
+                       if old_filename == new_filename:
+                               return
+                       os.rename(old_filename, new_filename)
+               except (IOError, OSError), err:
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to rename file')
+
+       def try_utime(self, filename, last_modified_hdr):
+               """Try to set the last-modified time of the given file."""
+               if last_modified_hdr is None:
+                       return
+               if not os.path.isfile(filename):
+                       return
+               timestr = last_modified_hdr
+               if timestr is None:
+                       return
+               filetime = timeconvert(timestr)
+               if filetime is None:
+                       return
+               try:
+                       os.utime(filename, (time.time(), filetime))
+               except:
+                       pass
+
+       def report_writedescription(self, descfn):
+               """ Report that the description file is being written """
+               self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video description to: %s' % descfn, ignore_encoding_errors=True)
+
+       def report_writeinfojson(self, infofn):
+               """ Report that the metadata file has been written """
+               self.to_screen(u'[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: %s' % infofn, ignore_encoding_errors=True)
+
        def report_destination(self, filename):
                """Report destination filename."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'[download] Destination: %s' % filename)
-       
+               self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: %s' % filename, ignore_encoding_errors=True)
+
        def report_progress(self, percent_str, data_len_str, speed_str, eta_str):
                """Report download progress."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'\r[download] %s of %s at %s ETA %s' %
+               if self.params.get('noprogress', False):
+                       return
+               self.to_screen(u'\r[download] %s of %s at %s ETA %s' %
                                (percent_str, data_len_str, speed_str, eta_str), skip_eol=True)
+               self.to_cons_title(u'youtube-dl - %s of %s at %s ETA %s' %
+                               (percent_str.strip(), data_len_str.strip(), speed_str.strip(), eta_str.strip()))
 
        def report_resuming_byte(self, resume_len):
-               """Report attemtp to resume at given byte."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'[download] Resuming download at byte %s' % resume_len)
-       
+               """Report attempt to resume at given byte."""
+               self.to_screen(u'[download] Resuming download at byte %s' % resume_len)
+
+       def report_retry(self, count, retries):
+               """Report retry in case of HTTP error 5xx"""
+               self.to_screen(u'[download] Got server HTTP error. Retrying (attempt %d of %d)...' % (count, retries))
+
        def report_file_already_downloaded(self, file_name):
                """Report file has already been fully downloaded."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'[download] %s has already been downloaded' % file_name)
-       
+               try:
+                       self.to_screen(u'[download] %s has already been downloaded' % file_name)
+               except (UnicodeEncodeError), err:
+                       self.to_screen(u'[download] The file has already been downloaded')
+
        def report_unable_to_resume(self):
                """Report it was impossible to resume download."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'[download] Unable to resume')
-       
+               self.to_screen(u'[download] Unable to resume')
+
        def report_finish(self):
                """Report download finished."""
-               self.to_stdout(u'')
+               if self.params.get('noprogress', False):
+                       self.to_screen(u'[download] Download completed')
+               else:
+                       self.to_screen(u'')
+
+       def increment_downloads(self):
+               """Increment the ordinal that assigns a number to each file."""
+               self._num_downloads += 1
+
+       def prepare_filename(self, info_dict):
+               """Generate the output filename."""
+               try:
+                       template_dict = dict(info_dict)
+                       template_dict['epoch'] = unicode(long(time.time()))
+                       template_dict['autonumber'] = unicode('%05d' % self._num_downloads)
+                       filename = self.params['outtmpl'] % template_dict
+                       return filename
+               except (ValueError, KeyError), err:
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid system charset or erroneous output template')
+                       return None
 
        def process_info(self, info_dict):
                """Process a single dictionary returned by an InfoExtractor."""
+               filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict)
                # Do nothing else if in simulate mode
                if self.params.get('simulate', False):
-                       # Verify URL if it's an HTTP one
-                       if info_dict['url'].startswith('http'):
-                               try:
-                                       info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
-                               except (OSError, IOError, urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                                       raise UnavailableFormatError
-
                        # Forced printings
                        if self.params.get('forcetitle', False):
                                print info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
                        if self.params.get('forceurl', False):
                                print info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+                       if self.params.get('forcethumbnail', False) and 'thumbnail' in info_dict:
+                               print info_dict['thumbnail'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+                       if self.params.get('forcedescription', False) and 'description' in info_dict:
+                               print info_dict['description'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+                       if self.params.get('forcefilename', False) and filename is not None:
+                               print filename.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
 
                        return
-                       
-               try:
-                       template_dict = dict(info_dict)
-                       template_dict['epoch'] = unicode(long(time.time()))
-                       filename = self.params['outtmpl'] % template_dict
-               except (ValueError, KeyError), err:
-                       self.trouble('ERROR: invalid output template or system charset: %s' % str(err))
+
+               if filename is None:
+                       return
                if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(filename):
-                       self.to_stderr(u'WARNING: file exists: %s; skipping' % filename)
+                       self.to_stderr(u'WARNING: file exists and will be skipped')
                        return
 
                try:
-                       self.pmkdir(filename)
+                       dn = os.path.dirname(filename)
+                       if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn):
+                               os.makedirs(dn)
                except (OSError, IOError), err:
-                       self.trouble('ERROR: unable to create directories: %s' % str(err))
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to create directory ' + unicode(err))
                        return
 
+               if self.params.get('writedescription', False):
+                       try:
+                               descfn = filename + '.description'
+                               self.report_writedescription(descfn)
+                               descfile = open(descfn, 'wb')
+                               try:
+                                       descfile.write(info_dict['description'].encode('utf-8'))
+                               finally:
+                                       descfile.close()
+                       except (OSError, IOError):
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write description file ' + descfn)
+                               return
+
+               if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
+                       infofn = filename + '.info.json'
+                       self.report_writeinfojson(infofn)
+                       try:
+                               json.dump
+                       except (NameError,AttributeError):
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: No JSON encoder found. Update to Python 2.6+, setup a json module, or leave out --write-info-json.')
+                               return
+                       try:
+                               infof = open(infofn, 'wb')
+                               try:
+                                       json.dump(info_dict, infof)
+                               finally:
+                                       infof.close()
+                       except (OSError, IOError):
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)
+                               return
+
                try:
-                       success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'))
+                       success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'), info_dict.get('player_url', None))
                except (OSError, IOError), err:
-                       raise UnavailableFormatError
+                       raise UnavailableVideoError
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                       self.trouble('ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
                        return
                except (ContentTooShortError, ), err:
-                       self.trouble('ERROR: content too short (expected %s bytes and served %s)' % (err.expected, err.downloaded))
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: content too short (expected %s bytes and served %s)' % (err.expected, err.downloaded))
                        return
 
                if success:
                        try:
                                self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
                        except (PostProcessingError), err:
-                               self.trouble('ERROR: postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
                                return
 
        def download(self, url_list):
@@ -440,7 +795,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                                break
 
                        if not suitable_found:
-                               self.trouble('ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor: %s' % url)
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor: %s' % url)
 
                return self._download_retcode
 
@@ -452,9 +807,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                        info = pp.run(info)
                        if info is None:
                                break
-       
-       def _download_with_rtmpdump(self, filename, url):
+
+       def _download_with_rtmpdump(self, filename, url, player_url):
                self.report_destination(filename)
+               tmpfilename = self.temp_name(filename)
 
                # Check for rtmpdump first
                try:
@@ -466,63 +822,108 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                # Download using rtmpdump. rtmpdump returns exit code 2 when
                # the connection was interrumpted and resuming appears to be
                # possible. This is part of rtmpdump's normal usage, AFAIK.
-               basic_args = ['rtmpdump', '-q', '-r', url, '-o', filename]
+               basic_args = ['rtmpdump'] + [[], ['-W', player_url]][player_url is not None] + ['-r', url, '-o', tmpfilename]
                retval = subprocess.call(basic_args + [[], ['-e', '-k', '1']][self.params.get('continuedl', False)])
                while retval == 2 or retval == 1:
-                       self.to_stdout(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(filename), skip_eol=True)
-                       time.sleep(2.0) # This seems to be needed
+                       prevsize = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+                       self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % prevsize, skip_eol=True)
+                       time.sleep(5.0) # This seems to be needed
                        retval = subprocess.call(basic_args + ['-e'] + [[], ['-k', '1']][retval == 1])
+                       cursize = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+                       if prevsize == cursize and retval == 1:
+                               break
                if retval == 0:
-                       self.to_stdout(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(filename))
+                       self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(tmpfilename))
+                       self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
                        return True
                else:
-                       self.trouble('ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code %d' % retval)
+                       self.trouble(u'\nERROR: rtmpdump exited with code %d' % retval)
                        return False
 
-       def _do_download(self, filename, url):
+       def _do_download(self, filename, url, player_url):
+               # Check file already present
+               if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(filename) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
+                       self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)
+                       return True
+
                # Attempt to download using rtmpdump
                if url.startswith('rtmp'):
-                       return self._download_with_rtmpdump(filename, url)
+                       return self._download_with_rtmpdump(filename, url, player_url)
 
+               tmpfilename = self.temp_name(filename)
                stream = None
                open_mode = 'wb'
-               basic_request = urllib2.Request(url, None, std_headers)
-               request = urllib2.Request(url, None, std_headers)
+
+               # Do not include the Accept-Encoding header
+               headers = {'Youtubedl-no-compression': 'True'}
+               basic_request = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
 
                # Establish possible resume length
-               if os.path.isfile(filename):
-                       resume_len = os.path.getsize(filename)
+               if os.path.isfile(tmpfilename):
+                       resume_len = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
                else:
                        resume_len = 0
 
                # Request parameters in case of being able to resume
                if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and resume_len != 0:
                        self.report_resuming_byte(resume_len)
-                       request.add_header('Range','bytes=%d-' % resume_len)
+                       request.add_header('Range', 'bytes=%d-' % resume_len)
                        open_mode = 'ab'
 
-               # Establish connection
-               try:
-                       data = urllib2.urlopen(request)
-               except (urllib2.HTTPError, ), err:
-                       if err.code != 416: #  416 is 'Requested range not satisfiable'
-                               raise
-                       # Unable to resume
-                       data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request)
-                       content_length = data.info()['Content-Length']
-
-                       if content_length is not None and long(content_length) == resume_len:
-                               # Because the file had already been fully downloaded
-                               self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)
-                               return True
-                       else:
-                               # Because the server didn't let us
-                               self.report_unable_to_resume()
-                               open_mode = 'wb'
+               count = 0
+               retries = self.params.get('retries', 0)
+               while count <= retries:
+                       # Establish connection
+                       try:
+                               data = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+                               break
+                       except (urllib2.HTTPError, ), err:
+                               if (err.code < 500 or err.code >= 600) and err.code != 416:
+                                       # Unexpected HTTP error
+                                       raise
+                               elif err.code == 416:
+                                       # Unable to resume (requested range not satisfiable)
+                                       try:
+                                               # Open the connection again without the range header
+                                               data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request)
+                                               content_length = data.info()['Content-Length']
+                                       except (urllib2.HTTPError, ), err:
+                                               if err.code < 500 or err.code >= 600:
+                                                       raise
+                                       else:
+                                               # Examine the reported length
+                                               if (content_length is not None and
+                                                               (resume_len - 100 < long(content_length) < resume_len + 100)):
+                                                       # The file had already been fully downloaded.
+                                                       # Explanation to the above condition: in issue #175 it was revealed that
+                                                       # YouTube sometimes adds or removes a few bytes from the end of the file,
+                                                       # changing the file size slightly and causing problems for some users. So
+                                                       # I decided to implement a suggested change and consider the file
+                                                       # completely downloaded if the file size differs less than 100 bytes from
+                                                       # the one in the hard drive.
+                                                       self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)
+                                                       self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
+                                                       return True
+                                               else:
+                                                       # The length does not match, we start the download over
+                                                       self.report_unable_to_resume()
+                                                       open_mode = 'wb'
+                                                       break
+                       # Retry
+                       count += 1
+                       if count <= retries:
+                               self.report_retry(count, retries)
+
+               if count > retries:
+                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: giving up after %s retries' % retries)
+                       return False
 
                data_len = data.info().get('Content-length', None)
+               if data_len is not None:
+                       data_len = long(data_len) + resume_len
                data_len_str = self.format_bytes(data_len)
-               byte_counter = 0
+               byte_counter = 0 + resume_len
                block_size = 1024
                start = time.time()
                while True:
@@ -530,36 +931,52 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                        before = time.time()
                        data_block = data.read(block_size)
                        after = time.time()
-                       data_block_len = len(data_block)
-                       if data_block_len == 0:
+                       if len(data_block) == 0:
                                break
-                       byte_counter += data_block_len
+                       byte_counter += len(data_block)
 
                        # Open file just in time
                        if stream is None:
                                try:
-                                       (stream, filename) = sanitize_open(filename, open_mode)
+                                       (stream, tmpfilename) = sanitize_open(tmpfilename, open_mode)
+                                       assert stream is not None
+                                       filename = self.undo_temp_name(tmpfilename)
                                        self.report_destination(filename)
                                except (OSError, IOError), err:
-                                       self.trouble('ERROR: unable to open for writing: %s' % str(err))
+                                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to open for writing: %s' % str(err))
                                        return False
-                       stream.write(data_block)
-                       block_size = self.best_block_size(after - before, data_block_len)
+                       try:
+                               stream.write(data_block)
+                       except (IOError, OSError), err:
+                               self.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to write data: %s' % str(err))
+                               return False
+                       block_size = self.best_block_size(after - before, len(data_block))
 
                        # Progress message
                        percent_str = self.calc_percent(byte_counter, data_len)
-                       eta_str = self.calc_eta(start, time.time(), data_len, byte_counter)
-                       speed_str = self.calc_speed(start, time.time(), byte_counter)
+                       eta_str = self.calc_eta(start, time.time(), data_len - resume_len, byte_counter - resume_len)
+                       speed_str = self.calc_speed(start, time.time(), byte_counter - resume_len)
                        self.report_progress(percent_str, data_len_str, speed_str, eta_str)
 
                        # Apply rate limit
-                       self.slow_down(start, byte_counter)
+                       self.slow_down(start, byte_counter - resume_len)
 
+               if stream is None:
+                       self.trouble(u'\nERROR: Did not get any data blocks')
+                       return False
+               stream.close()
                self.report_finish()
-               if data_len is not None and str(byte_counter) != data_len:
+               if data_len is not None and byte_counter != data_len:
                        raise ContentTooShortError(byte_counter, long(data_len))
+               self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
+
+               # Update file modification time
+               if self.params.get('updatetime', True):
+                       self.try_utime(filename, data.info().get('last-modified', None))
+
                return True
 
+
 class InfoExtractor(object):
        """Information Extractor class.
 
@@ -578,6 +995,16 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
        title:          Literal title.
        stitle:         Simplified title.
        ext:            Video filename extension.
+       format:         Video format.
+       player_url:     SWF Player URL (may be None).
+
+       The following fields are optional. Their primary purpose is to allow
+       youtube-dl to serve as the backend for a video search function, such
+       as the one in youtube2mp3.  They are only used when their respective
+       forced printing functions are called:
+
+       thumbnail:      Full URL to a video thumbnail image.
+       description:    One-line video description.
 
        Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and
        _real_extract() methods, as well as the suitable() static method.
@@ -612,7 +1039,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
        def set_downloader(self, downloader):
                """Sets the downloader for this IE."""
                self._downloader = downloader
-       
+
        def _real_initialize(self):
                """Real initialization process. Redefine in subclasses."""
                pass
@@ -621,21 +1048,26 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                """Real extraction process. Redefine in subclasses."""
                pass
 
+
 class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
        """Information extractor for youtube.com."""
 
-       _VALID_URL = r'^((?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/(?:(?:v/)|(?:(?:watch(?:\.php)?)?[\?#](?:.+&)?v=)))?([0-9A-Za-z_-]+)(?(1).+)?$'
-       _LANG_URL = r'http://uk.youtube.com/?hl=en&persist_hl=1&gl=US&persist_gl=1&opt_out_ackd=1'
-       _LOGIN_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/signup?next=/&gl=US&hl=en'
+       _VALID_URL = r'^((?:https?://)?(?:youtu\.be/|(?:\w+\.)?youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/)(?:(?:(?:v|embed|e)/)|(?:(?:watch(?:_popup)?(?:\.php)?)?(?:\?|#!?)(?:.+&)?v=))?)?([0-9A-Za-z_-]+)(?(1).+)?$'
+       _LANG_URL = r'http://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&persist_hl=1&gl=US&persist_gl=1&opt_out_ackd=1'
+       _LOGIN_URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/signup?next=/&gl=US&hl=en'
        _AGE_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/&gl=US&hl=en'
        _NETRC_MACHINE = 'youtube'
-       _available_formats = ['37', '22', '35', '18', '5', '17', '13', None] # listed in order of priority for -b flag
+       # Listed in order of quality
+       _available_formats = ['38', '37', '45', '22', '43', '35', '34', '18', '6', '5', '17', '13']
        _video_extensions = {
                '13': '3gp',
                '17': 'mp4',
                '18': 'mp4',
                '22': 'mp4',
                '37': 'mp4',
+               '38': 'video', # You actually don't know if this will be MOV, AVI or whatever
+               '43': 'webm',
+               '45': 'webm',
        }
 
        @staticmethod
@@ -644,32 +1076,36 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
        def report_lang(self):
                """Report attempt to set language."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] Setting language')
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Setting language')
 
        def report_login(self):
                """Report attempt to log in."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] Logging in')
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Logging in')
+
        def report_age_confirmation(self):
                """Report attempt to confirm age."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] Confirming age')
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Confirming age')
+
+       def report_video_webpage_download(self, video_id):
+               """Report attempt to download video webpage."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video webpage' % video_id)
+
        def report_video_info_webpage_download(self, video_id):
                """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
+
        def report_information_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report attempt to extract video information."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] %s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
+
        def report_unavailable_format(self, video_id, format):
                """Report extracted video URL."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] %s: Format %s not available' % (video_id, format))
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Format %s not available' % (video_id, format))
+
        def report_rtmp_download(self):
                """Indicate the download will use the RTMP protocol."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] RTMP download detected')
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] RTMP download detected')
+
        def _real_initialize(self):
                if self._downloader is None:
                        return
@@ -695,7 +1131,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                                return
 
                # Set language
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._LANG_URL, None, std_headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._LANG_URL)
                try:
                        self.report_lang()
                        urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
@@ -715,7 +1151,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                                'username':     username,
                                'password':     password,
                                }
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._LOGIN_URL, urllib.urlencode(login_form), std_headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._LOGIN_URL, urllib.urlencode(login_form))
                try:
                        self.report_login()
                        login_results = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
@@ -725,13 +1161,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
                        self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: %s' % str(err))
                        return
-       
+
                # Confirm age
                age_form = {
                                'next_url':             '/',
                                'action_confirm':       'Confirm',
                                }
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._AGE_URL, urllib.urlencode(age_form), std_headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._AGE_URL, urllib.urlencode(age_form))
                try:
                        self.report_age_confirmation()
                        age_results = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
@@ -747,72 +1183,142 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        return
                video_id = mobj.group(2)
 
-               # Downloader parameters
-               best_quality = False
-               format_param = None
-               quality_index = 0
-               if self._downloader is not None:
-                       params = self._downloader.params
-                       format_param = params.get('format', None)
-                       if format_param == '0':
-                               format_param = self._available_formats[quality_index]
-                               best_quality = True
-
-               while True:
-                       # Extension
-                       video_extension = self._video_extensions.get(format_param, 'flv')
+               # Get video webpage
+               self.report_video_webpage_download(video_id)
+               request = urllib2.Request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&amp;has_verified=1' % video_id)
+               try:
+                       video_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
 
-                       # Get video info
-                       video_info_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s&el=detailpage&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en' % video_id
-                       request = urllib2.Request(video_info_url, None, std_headers)
+               # Attempt to extract SWF player URL
+               mobj = re.search(r'swfConfig.*?"(http:\\/\\/.*?watch.*?-.*?\.swf)"', video_webpage)
+               if mobj is not None:
+                       player_url = re.sub(r'\\(.)', r'\1', mobj.group(1))
+               else:
+                       player_url = None
+
+               # Get video info
+               self.report_video_info_webpage_download(video_id)
+               for el_type in ['&el=embedded', '&el=detailpage', '&el=vevo', '']:
+                       video_info_url = ('http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s%s&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en'
+                                       % (video_id, el_type))
+                       request = urllib2.Request(video_info_url)
                        try:
-                               self.report_video_info_webpage_download(video_id)
                                video_info_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                                video_info = parse_qs(video_info_webpage)
+                               if 'token' in video_info:
+                                       break
                        except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
                                self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: %s' % str(err))
                                return
-                       self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
-
-                       # "t" param
-                       if 'token' not in video_info:
-                               # Attempt to see if YouTube has issued an error message
-                               if 'reason' not in video_info:
-                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract "t" parameter for unknown reason')
-                                       stream = open('reportme-ydl-%s.dat' % time.time(), 'wb')
-                                       stream.write(video_info_webpage)
-                                       stream.close()
-                               else:
-                                       reason = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['reason'][0])
-                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: YouTube said: %s' % reason.decode('utf-8'))
-                               return
-                       token = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['token'][0])
-                       video_real_url = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=%s&t=%s&eurl=&el=detailpage&ps=default&gl=US&hl=en' % (video_id, token)
-                       if format_param is not None:
-                               video_real_url = '%s&fmt=%s' % (video_real_url, format_param)
-
-                       # Check possible RTMP download
-                       if 'conn' in video_info and video_info['conn'][0].startswith('rtmp'):
-                               self.report_rtmp_download()
-                               video_real_url = video_info['conn'][0]
-
-                       # uploader
-                       if 'author' not in video_info:
-                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
-                               return
-                       video_uploader = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['author'][0])
+               if 'token' not in video_info:
+                       if 'reason' in video_info:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0].decode('utf-8'))
+                       else:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason')
+                       return
+
+               # Start extracting information
+               self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
+
+               # uploader
+               if 'author' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
+                       return
+               video_uploader = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['author'][0])
+
+               # title
+               if 'title' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
+                       return
+               video_title = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
+               video_title = video_title.decode('utf-8')
+               video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+
+               # simplified title
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
+               simple_title = simple_title.strip(ur'_')
+
+               # thumbnail image
+               if 'thumbnail_url' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to extract video thumbnail')
+                       video_thumbnail = ''
+               else:   # don't panic if we can't find it
+                       video_thumbnail = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['thumbnail_url'][0])
+
+               # upload date
+               upload_date = u'NA'
+               mobj = re.search(r'id="eow-date.*?>(.*?)</span>', video_webpage, re.DOTALL)
+               if mobj is not None:
+                       upload_date = ' '.join(re.sub(r'[/,-]', r' ', mobj.group(1)).split())
+                       format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y']
+                       for expression in format_expressions:
+                               try:
+                                       upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(upload_date, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
+                               except:
+                                       pass
 
-                       # title
-                       if 'title' not in video_info:
-                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
+               # description
+               try:
+                       lxml.etree
+               except NameError:
+                       video_description = u'No description available.'
+                       if self._downloader.params.get('forcedescription', False) or self._downloader.params.get('writedescription', False):
+                               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="(.*)"(?:\s*/)?>', video_webpage)
+                               if mobj is not None:
+                                       video_description = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               else:
+                       html_parser = lxml.etree.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8')
+                       vwebpage_doc = lxml.etree.parse(StringIO.StringIO(video_webpage), html_parser)
+                       video_description = u''.join(vwebpage_doc.xpath('id("eow-description")//text()'))
+                       # TODO use another parser
+
+               # token
+               video_token = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['token'][0])
+
+               # Decide which formats to download
+               req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
+
+               if 'conn' in video_info and video_info['conn'][0].startswith('rtmp'):
+                       self.report_rtmp_download()
+                       video_url_list = [(None, video_info['conn'][0])]
+               elif 'url_encoded_fmt_stream_map' in video_info and len(video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map']) >= 1:
+                       url_data_strs = video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map'][0].split(',')
+                       url_data = [parse_qs(uds) for uds in url_data_strs]
+                       url_data = filter(lambda ud: 'itag' in ud and 'url' in ud, url_data)
+                       url_map = dict((ud['itag'][0], ud['url'][0]) for ud in url_data)
+
+                       format_limit = self._downloader.params.get('format_limit', None)
+                       if format_limit is not None and format_limit in self._available_formats:
+                               format_list = self._available_formats[self._available_formats.index(format_limit):]
+                       else:
+                               format_list = self._available_formats
+                       existing_formats = [x for x in format_list if x in url_map]
+                       if len(existing_formats) == 0:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: no known formats available for video')
                                return
-                       video_title = urllib.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
-                       video_title = video_title.decode('utf-8')
-                       video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+                       if req_format is None:
+                               video_url_list = [(existing_formats[0], url_map[existing_formats[0]])] # Best quality
+                       elif req_format == '-1':
+                               video_url_list = [(f, url_map[f]) for f in existing_formats] # All formats
+                       else:
+                               # Specific format
+                               if req_format not in url_map:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: requested format not available')
+                                       return
+                               video_url_list = [(req_format, url_map[req_format])] # Specific format
+               else:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: no conn or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info')
+                       return
+
+               for format_param, video_real_url in video_url_list:
+                       # At this point we have a new video
+                       self._downloader.increment_downloads()
 
-                       # simplified title
-                       simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
-                       simple_title = simple_title.strip(ur'_')
+                       # Extension
+                       video_extension = self._video_extensions.get(format_param, 'flv')
 
                        try:
                                # Process video information
@@ -820,27 +1326,17 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                                        'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
                                        'url':          video_real_url.decode('utf-8'),
                                        'uploader':     video_uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'upload_date':  upload_date,
                                        'title':        video_title,
                                        'stitle':       simple_title,
                                        'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'format':       (format_param is None and u'NA' or format_param.decode('utf-8')),
+                                       'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'description':  video_description,
+                                       'player_url':   player_url,
                                })
-
-                               return
-
-                       except UnavailableFormatError, err:
-                               if best_quality:
-                                       if quality_index == len(self._available_formats) - 1:
-                                               # I don't ever expect this to happen
-                                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: no known formats available for video')
-                                               return
-                                       else:
-                                               self.report_unavailable_format(video_id, format_param)
-                                               quality_index += 1
-                                               format_param = self._available_formats[quality_index]
-                                               continue
-                               else: 
-                                       self._downloader.trouble('ERROR: format not available for video')
-                                       return
+                       except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
 
 
 class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -861,23 +1357,23 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
        def report_disclaimer(self):
                """Report disclaimer retrieval."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[metacafe] Retrieving disclaimer')
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] Retrieving disclaimer')
 
        def report_age_confirmation(self):
                """Report attempt to confirm age."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[metacafe] Confirming age')
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] Confirming age')
+
        def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
                """Report webpage download."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[metacafe] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-       
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
        def report_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report information extraction."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[metacafe] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                # Retrieve disclaimer
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._DISCLAIMER, None, std_headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._DISCLAIMER)
                try:
                        self.report_disclaimer()
                        disclaimer = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
@@ -890,14 +1386,14 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        'filters': '0',
                        'submit': "Continue - I'm over 18",
                        }
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._FILTER_POST, urllib.urlencode(disclaimer_form), std_headers)
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._FILTER_POST, urllib.urlencode(disclaimer_form))
                try:
                        self.report_age_confirmation()
                        disclaimer = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to confirm age: %s' % str(err))
                        return
-       
+
        def _real_extract(self, url):
                # Extract id and simplified title from URL
                mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
@@ -913,8 +1409,10 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
                        self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % mobj2.group(1))
                        return
 
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
                simple_title = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
-               video_extension = 'flv'
 
                # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
                request = urllib2.Request('http://www.metacafe.com/watch/%s/' % video_id)
@@ -928,20 +1426,33 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
                # Extract URL, uploader and title from webpage
                self.report_extraction(video_id)
                mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&mediaURL=([^&]+)', webpage)
-               if mobj is None:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
-                       return
-               mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
-
-               #mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&gdaKey=(.*?)&', webpage)
-               #if mobj is None:
-               #       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract gdaKey')
-               #       return
-               #gdaKey = mobj.group(1)
-               #
-               #video_url = '%s?__gda__=%s' % (mediaURL, gdaKey)
-
-               video_url = mediaURL
+               if mobj is not None:
+                       mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
+                       video_extension = mediaURL[-3:]
+
+                       # Extract gdaKey if available
+                       mobj = re.search(r'(?m)&gdaKey=(.*?)&', webpage)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               video_url = mediaURL
+                       else:
+                               gdaKey = mobj.group(1)
+                               video_url = '%s?__gda__=%s' % (mediaURL, gdaKey)
+               else:
+                       mobj = re.search(r' name="flashvars" value="(.*?)"', webpage)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                               return
+                       vardict = parse_qs(mobj.group(1))
+                       if 'mediaData' not in vardict:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                               return
+                       mobj = re.search(r'"mediaURL":"(http.*?)","key":"(.*?)"', vardict['mediaData'][0])
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                               return
+                       mediaURL = mobj.group(1).replace('\\/', '/')
+                       video_extension = mediaURL[-3:]
+                       video_url = '%s?__gda__=%s' % (mediaURL, mobj.group(2))
 
                mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>(.*) - Video</title>', webpage)
                if mobj is None:
@@ -962,81 +1473,93 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
                                'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
                                'url':          video_url.decode('utf-8'),
                                'uploader':     video_uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
                                'title':        video_title,
                                'stitle':       simple_title,
                                'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
                        })
-               except UnavailableFormatError:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format not available for video')
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
 
 
-class GoogleIE(InfoExtractor):
-       """Information extractor for video.google.com."""
+class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for Dailymotion"""
 
-       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?video\.google\.(?:com(?:\.au)?|co\.(?:uk|jp|kr|cr)|ca|de|es|fr|it|nl|pl)/videoplay\?docid=([^\&]+).*'
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?i)(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?dailymotion\.[a-z]{2,3}/video/([^_/]+)_([^/]+)'
 
        def __init__(self, downloader=None):
                InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
 
        @staticmethod
        def suitable(url):
-               return (re.match(GoogleIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+               return (re.match(DailymotionIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
 
        def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
                """Report webpage download."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[video.google] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[dailymotion] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
 
        def report_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report information extraction."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[video.google] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[dailymotion] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                return
 
        def _real_extract(self, url):
-               # Extract id from URL
+               # Extract id and simplified title from URL
                mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
                if mobj is None:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
                        return
 
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
                video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-               video_extension = 'mp4'
+               simple_title = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
+               video_extension = 'flv'
 
                # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
-               request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s&hl=en&oe=utf-8' % video_id)
+               request = urllib2.Request(url)
+               request.add_header('Cookie', 'family_filter=off')
                try:
                        self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
                        webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
                        return
 
-               # Extract URL, uploader, and title from webpage
+               # Extract URL, uploader and title from webpage
                self.report_extraction(video_id)
-               mobj = re.search(r"download_url:'([^']+)'", webpage)
+               mobj = re.search(r'(?i)addVariable\(\"sequence\"\s*,\s*\"([^\"]+?)\"\)', webpage)
                if mobj is None:
-                       video_extension = 'flv'
-                       mobj = re.search(r"(?i)videoUrl\\x3d(.+?)\\x26", webpage)
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                       return
+               sequence = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
+               mobj = re.search(r',\"sdURL\"\:\"([^\"]+?)\",', sequence)
                if mobj is None:
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
                        return
-               mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
-               mediaURL = mediaURL.replace('\\x3d', '\x3d')
-               mediaURL = mediaURL.replace('\\x26', '\x26')
+               mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1)).replace('\\', '')
+
+               # if needed add http://www.dailymotion.com/ if relative URL
 
                video_url = mediaURL
 
-               mobj = re.search(r'<title>(.*)</title>', webpage)
+               mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>Dailymotion\s*-\s*(.+)\s*-\s*[^<]+?</title>', webpage)
                if mobj is None:
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract title')
                        return
                video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
                video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
 
-               # Google Video doesn't show uploader nicknames?
-               video_uploader = 'NA'
+               mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<span class="owner[^\"]+?">[^<]+?<a [^>]+?>([^<]+?)</a></span>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
+                       return
+               video_uploader = mobj.group(1)
 
                try:
                        # Process video information
@@ -1044,33 +1567,36 @@ class GoogleIE(InfoExtractor):
                                'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
                                'url':          video_url.decode('utf-8'),
                                'uploader':     video_uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
                                'title':        video_title,
-                               'stitle':       video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
                                'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
                        })
-               except UnavailableFormatError:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format not available for video')
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
 
 
-class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
-       """Information extractor for photobucket.com."""
+class GoogleIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for video.google.com."""
 
-       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z0-9]+\.)?photobucket\.com/.*[\?\&]current=(.*\.flv)'
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?video\.google\.(?:com(?:\.au)?|co\.(?:uk|jp|kr|cr)|ca|de|es|fr|it|nl|pl)/videoplay\?docid=([^\&]+).*'
 
        def __init__(self, downloader=None):
                InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
 
        @staticmethod
        def suitable(url):
-               return (re.match(PhotobucketIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+               return (re.match(GoogleIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
 
        def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
                """Report webpage download."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[photobucket] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.google] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
 
        def report_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report information extraction."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[photobucket] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.google] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                return
@@ -1082,12 +1608,14 @@ class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
                        return
 
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
                video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-               video_extension = 'flv'
+               video_extension = 'mp4'
 
                # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
-               request = urllib2.Request(url)
+               request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s&hl=en&oe=utf-8' % video_id)
                try:
                        self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
                        webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
@@ -1097,9 +1625,119 @@ class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
 
                # Extract URL, uploader, and title from webpage
                self.report_extraction(video_id)
-               mobj = re.search(r'<link rel="video_src" href=".*\?file=([^"]+)" />', webpage)
+               mobj = re.search(r"download_url:'([^']+)'", webpage)
                if mobj is None:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                       video_extension = 'flv'
+                       mobj = re.search(r"(?i)videoUrl\\x3d(.+?)\\x26", webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                       return
+               mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
+               mediaURL = mediaURL.replace('\\x3d', '\x3d')
+               mediaURL = mediaURL.replace('\\x26', '\x26')
+
+               video_url = mediaURL
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'<title>(.*)</title>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract title')
+                       return
+               video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
+
+               # Extract video description
+               mobj = re.search(r'<span id=short-desc-content>([^<]*)</span>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video description')
+                       return
+               video_description = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               if not video_description:
+                       video_description = 'No description available.'
+
+               # Extract video thumbnail
+               if self._downloader.params.get('forcethumbnail', False):
+                       request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s+site:video.google.com&hl=en' % abs(int(video_id)))
+                       try:
+                               webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+                       mobj = re.search(r'<img class=thumbnail-img (?:.* )?src=(http.*)>', webpage)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video thumbnail')
+                               return
+                       video_thumbnail = mobj.group(1)
+               else:   # we need something to pass to process_info
+                       video_thumbnail = ''
+
+               try:
+                       # Process video information
+                       self._downloader.process_info({
+                               'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'url':          video_url.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'uploader':     u'NA',
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
+                               'title':        video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
+                               'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
+                       })
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+
+
+class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for photobucket.com."""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z0-9]+\.)?photobucket\.com/.*[\?\&]current=(.*\.flv)'
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(PhotobucketIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
+               """Report webpage download."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[photobucket] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[photobucket] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               return
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               # Extract id from URL
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+               video_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+               video_extension = 'flv'
+
+               # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
+               request = urllib2.Request(url)
+               try:
+                       self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               # Extract URL, uploader, and title from webpage
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
+               mobj = re.search(r'<link rel="video_src" href=".*\?file=([^"]+)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
                        return
                mediaURL = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
 
@@ -1111,6 +1749,7 @@ class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
                        return
                video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
                video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
 
                video_uploader = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
 
@@ -1120,12 +1759,289 @@ class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
                                'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
                                'url':          video_url.decode('utf-8'),
                                'uploader':     video_uploader,
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
+                               'title':        video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
+                               'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
+                       })
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+
+
+class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for video.yahoo.com."""
+
+       # _VALID_URL matches all Yahoo! Video URLs
+       # _VPAGE_URL matches only the extractable '/watch/' URLs
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z]+\.)?video\.yahoo\.com/(?:watch|network)/([0-9]+)(?:/|\?v=)([0-9]+)(?:[#\?].*)?'
+       _VPAGE_URL = r'(?:http://)?video\.yahoo\.com/watch/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)(?:[#\?].*)?'
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(YahooIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
+               """Report webpage download."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               return
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
+               # Extract ID from URL
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+               video_id = mobj.group(2)
+               video_extension = 'flv'
+
+               # Rewrite valid but non-extractable URLs as
+               # extractable English language /watch/ URLs
+               if re.match(self._VPAGE_URL, url) is None:
+                       request = urllib2.Request(url)
+                       try:
+                               webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+
+                       mobj = re.search(r'\("id", "([0-9]+)"\);', webpage)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to extract id field')
+                               return
+                       yahoo_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+                       mobj = re.search(r'\("vid", "([0-9]+)"\);', webpage)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to extract vid field')
+                               return
+                       yahoo_vid = mobj.group(1)
+
+                       url = 'http://video.yahoo.com/watch/%s/%s' % (yahoo_vid, yahoo_id)
+                       return self._real_extract(url, new_video=False)
+
+               # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
+               request = urllib2.Request(url)
+               try:
+                       self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               # Extract uploader and title from webpage
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="title" content="(.*)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
+                       return
+               video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'<h2 class="ti-5"><a href="http://video\.yahoo\.com/(people|profile)/[0-9]+" beacon=".*">(.*)</a></h2>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video uploader')
+                       return
+               video_uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               # Extract video thumbnail
+               mobj = re.search(r'<link rel="image_src" href="(.*)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video thumbnail')
+                       return
+               video_thumbnail = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               # Extract video description
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="(.*)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video description')
+                       return
+               video_description = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               if not video_description:
+                       video_description = 'No description available.'
+
+               # Extract video height and width
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="video_height" content="([0-9]+)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video height')
+                       return
+               yv_video_height = mobj.group(1)
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="video_width" content="([0-9]+)" />', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video width')
+                       return
+               yv_video_width = mobj.group(1)
+
+               # Retrieve video playlist to extract media URL
+               # I'm not completely sure what all these options are, but we
+               # seem to need most of them, otherwise the server sends a 401.
+               yv_lg = 'R0xx6idZnW2zlrKP8xxAIR'  # not sure what this represents
+               yv_bitrate = '700'  # according to Wikipedia this is hard-coded
+               request = urllib2.Request('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/yep/process/getPlaylistFOP.php?node_id=' + video_id +
+                               '&tech=flash&mode=playlist&lg=' + yv_lg + '&bitrate=' + yv_bitrate + '&vidH=' + yv_video_height +
+                               '&vidW=' + yv_video_width + '&swf=as3&rd=video.yahoo.com&tk=null&adsupported=v1,v2,&eventid=1301797')
+               try:
+                       self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               # Extract media URL from playlist XML
+               mobj = re.search(r'<STREAM APP="(http://.*)" FULLPATH="/?(/.*\.flv\?[^"]*)"', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to extract media URL')
+                       return
+               video_url = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1) + mobj.group(2)).decode('utf-8')
+               video_url = re.sub(r'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, video_url)
+
+               try:
+                       # Process video information
+                       self._downloader.process_info({
+                               'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'url':          video_url,
+                               'uploader':     video_uploader,
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
                                'title':        video_title,
-                               'stitle':       video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
                                'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'description':  video_description,
+                               'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail,
+                               'player_url':   None,
+                       })
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+
+
+class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for vimeo.com."""
+
+       # _VALID_URL matches Vimeo URLs
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:https?://)?(?:(?:www|player).)?vimeo\.com/(?:groups/[^/]+/)?(?:videos?/)?([0-9]+)'
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(VimeoIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
+               """Report webpage download."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[vimeo] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[vimeo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               return
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
+               # Extract ID from URL
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+               video_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+               # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
+               request = urllib2.Request("http://vimeo.com/moogaloop/load/clip:%s" % video_id, None, std_headers)
+               try:
+                       self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               # Now we begin extracting as much information as we can from what we
+               # retrieved. First we extract the information common to all extractors,
+               # and latter we extract those that are Vimeo specific.
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
+
+               # Extract title
+               mobj = re.search(r'<caption>(.*?)</caption>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
+                       return
+               video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
+
+               # Extract uploader
+               mobj = re.search(r'<uploader_url>http://vimeo.com/(.*?)</uploader_url>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video uploader')
+                       return
+               video_uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               # Extract video thumbnail
+               mobj = re.search(r'<thumbnail>(.*?)</thumbnail>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video thumbnail')
+                       return
+               video_thumbnail = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               # # Extract video description
+               # mobj = re.search(r'<meta property="og:description" content="(.*)" />', webpage)
+               # if mobj is None:
+               #       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video description')
+               #       return
+               # video_description = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+               # if not video_description: video_description = 'No description available.'
+               video_description = 'Foo.'
+
+               # Vimeo specific: extract request signature
+               mobj = re.search(r'<request_signature>(.*?)</request_signature>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract request signature')
+                       return
+               sig = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               # Vimeo specific: Extract request signature expiration
+               mobj = re.search(r'<request_signature_expires>(.*?)</request_signature_expires>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract request signature expiration')
+                       return
+               sig_exp = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               video_url = "http://vimeo.com/moogaloop/play/clip:%s/%s/%s" % (video_id, sig, sig_exp)
+
+               try:
+                       # Process video information
+                       self._downloader.process_info({
+                               'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'url':          video_url,
+                               'uploader':     video_uploader,
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
+                               'title':        video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
+                               'ext':          u'mp4',
+                               'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'description':  video_description,
+                               'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail,
+                               'description':  video_description,
+                               'player_url':   None,
                        })
-               except UnavailableFormatError:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format not available for video')
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video')
 
 
 class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -1140,17 +2056,20 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 
        def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
                """Report webpage download."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.')
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[generic] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.')
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[generic] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
 
        def report_extraction(self, video_id):
                """Report information extraction."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[generic] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[generic] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                return
 
        def _real_extract(self, url):
+               # At this point we have a new video
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
                video_id = url.split('/')[-1]
                request = urllib2.Request(url)
                try:
@@ -1165,6 +2084,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
                        return
 
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
                # Start with something easy: JW Player in SWFObject
                mobj = re.search(r'flashvars: [\'"](?:.*&)?file=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
                if mobj is None:
@@ -1181,11 +2101,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                        return
 
                video_url = urllib.unquote(mobj.group(1))
-               video_id  = os.path.basename(video_url)
+               video_id = os.path.basename(video_url)
 
                # here's a fun little line of code for you:
                video_extension = os.path.splitext(video_id)[1][1:]
-               video_id        = os.path.splitext(video_id)[0]
+               video_id = os.path.splitext(video_id)[0]
 
                # it's tempting to parse this further, but you would
                # have to take into account all the variations like
@@ -1199,6 +2119,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                        return
                video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
                video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
 
                # video uploader is domain name
                mobj = re.match(r'(?:https?://)?([^/]*)/.*', url)
@@ -1213,12 +2134,15 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                                'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
                                'url':          video_url.decode('utf-8'),
                                'uploader':     video_uploader,
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
                                'title':        video_title,
-                               'stitle':       video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
                                'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
                        })
-               except UnavailableFormatError:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format not available for video')
+               except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
 
 
 class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -1233,7 +2157,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
        def __init__(self, youtube_ie, downloader=None):
                InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
                self._youtube_ie = youtube_ie
-       
+
        @staticmethod
        def suitable(url):
                return (re.match(YoutubeSearchIE._VALID_QUERY, url) is not None)
@@ -1241,11 +2165,11 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
        def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
                """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
                query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                self._youtube_ie.initialize()
-       
+
        def _real_extract(self, query):
                mobj = re.match(self._VALID_QUERY, query)
                if mobj is None:
@@ -1254,7 +2178,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 
                prefix, query = query.split(':')
                prefix = prefix[8:]
-               query  = query.encode('utf-8')
+               query = query.encode('utf-8')
                if prefix == '':
                        self._download_n_results(query, 1)
                        return
@@ -1268,7 +2192,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
                                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
                                        return
                                elif n > self._max_youtube_results:
-                                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: ytsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)'  % (self._max_youtube_results, n))
+                                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: ytsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_youtube_results, n))
                                        n = self._max_youtube_results
                                self._download_n_results(query, n)
                                return
@@ -1286,7 +2210,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
                while True:
                        self.report_download_page(query, pagenum)
                        result_url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (urllib.quote_plus(query), pagenum)
-                       request = urllib2.Request(result_url, None, std_headers)
+                       request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
                        try:
                                page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                        except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
@@ -1312,45 +2236,242 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 
                        pagenum = pagenum + 1
 
-class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
-       """Information Extractor for YouTube playlists."""
 
-       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube.com/(?:view_play_list|my_playlists)\?.*?p=([^&]+).*'
-       _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=%s&page=%s&gl=US&hl=en'
-       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'/watch\?v=(.+?)&'
-       _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'/view_play_list?p=%s&page=%s'
-       _youtube_ie = None
+class GoogleSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for Google Video search queries."""
+       _VALID_QUERY = r'gvsearch(\d+|all)?:[\s\S]+'
+       _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s+site:video.google.com&start=%s&hl=en'
+       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'videoplay\?docid=([^\&>]+)\&'
+       _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'<span>Next</span>'
+       _google_ie = None
+       _max_google_results = 1000
 
-       def __init__(self, youtube_ie, downloader=None):
+       def __init__(self, google_ie, downloader=None):
                InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-               self._youtube_ie = youtube_ie
-       
+               self._google_ie = google_ie
+
        @staticmethod
        def suitable(url):
-               return (re.match(YoutubePlaylistIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+               return (re.match(GoogleSearchIE._VALID_QUERY, url) is not None)
 
-       def report_download_page(self, playlist_id, pagenum):
+       def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
                """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] PL %s: Downloading page #%s' % (playlist_id, pagenum))
+               query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.google] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
-               self._youtube_ie.initialize()
-       
-       def _real_extract(self, url):
-               # Extract playlist id
-               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-               if mobj is None:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid url: %s' % url)
-                       return
+               self._google_ie.initialize()
+
+       def _real_extract(self, query):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_QUERY, query)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid search query "%s"' % query)
+                       return
+
+               prefix, query = query.split(':')
+               prefix = prefix[8:]
+               query = query.encode('utf-8')
+               if prefix == '':
+                       self._download_n_results(query, 1)
+                       return
+               elif prefix == 'all':
+                       self._download_n_results(query, self._max_google_results)
+                       return
+               else:
+                       try:
+                               n = long(prefix)
+                               if n <= 0:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
+                                       return
+                               elif n > self._max_google_results:
+                                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: gvsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_google_results, n))
+                                       n = self._max_google_results
+                               self._download_n_results(query, n)
+                               return
+                       except ValueError: # parsing prefix as integer fails
+                               self._download_n_results(query, 1)
+                               return
+
+       def _download_n_results(self, query, n):
+               """Downloads a specified number of results for a query"""
+
+               video_ids = []
+               already_seen = set()
+               pagenum = 1
+
+               while True:
+                       self.report_download_page(query, pagenum)
+                       result_url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (urllib.quote_plus(query), pagenum)
+                       request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
+                       try:
+                               page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+
+                       # Extract video identifiers
+                       for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
+                               video_id = mobj.group(1)
+                               if video_id not in already_seen:
+                                       video_ids.append(video_id)
+                                       already_seen.add(video_id)
+                                       if len(video_ids) == n:
+                                               # Specified n videos reached
+                                               for id in video_ids:
+                                                       self._google_ie.extract('http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s' % id)
+                                               return
+
+                       if re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, page) is None:
+                               for id in video_ids:
+                                       self._google_ie.extract('http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s' % id)
+                               return
+
+                       pagenum = pagenum + 1
+
+
+class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for Yahoo! Video search queries."""
+       _VALID_QUERY = r'yvsearch(\d+|all)?:[\s\S]+'
+       _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://video.yahoo.com/search/?p=%s&o=%s'
+       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'href="http://video\.yahoo\.com/watch/([0-9]+/[0-9]+)"'
+       _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'\s*Next'
+       _yahoo_ie = None
+       _max_yahoo_results = 1000
+
+       def __init__(self, yahoo_ie, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+               self._yahoo_ie = yahoo_ie
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(YahooSearchIE._VALID_QUERY, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
+               """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
+               query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               self._yahoo_ie.initialize()
+
+       def _real_extract(self, query):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_QUERY, query)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid search query "%s"' % query)
+                       return
+
+               prefix, query = query.split(':')
+               prefix = prefix[8:]
+               query = query.encode('utf-8')
+               if prefix == '':
+                       self._download_n_results(query, 1)
+                       return
+               elif prefix == 'all':
+                       self._download_n_results(query, self._max_yahoo_results)
+                       return
+               else:
+                       try:
+                               n = long(prefix)
+                               if n <= 0:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
+                                       return
+                               elif n > self._max_yahoo_results:
+                                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: yvsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_yahoo_results, n))
+                                       n = self._max_yahoo_results
+                               self._download_n_results(query, n)
+                               return
+                       except ValueError: # parsing prefix as integer fails
+                               self._download_n_results(query, 1)
+                               return
+
+       def _download_n_results(self, query, n):
+               """Downloads a specified number of results for a query"""
+
+               video_ids = []
+               already_seen = set()
+               pagenum = 1
+
+               while True:
+                       self.report_download_page(query, pagenum)
+                       result_url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (urllib.quote_plus(query), pagenum)
+                       request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
+                       try:
+                               page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+
+                       # Extract video identifiers
+                       for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
+                               video_id = mobj.group(1)
+                               if video_id not in already_seen:
+                                       video_ids.append(video_id)
+                                       already_seen.add(video_id)
+                                       if len(video_ids) == n:
+                                               # Specified n videos reached
+                                               for id in video_ids:
+                                                       self._yahoo_ie.extract('http://video.yahoo.com/watch/%s' % id)
+                                               return
+
+                       if re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, page) is None:
+                               for id in video_ids:
+                                       self._yahoo_ie.extract('http://video.yahoo.com/watch/%s' % id)
+                               return
+
+                       pagenum = pagenum + 1
+
+
+class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for YouTube playlists."""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube.com/(?:(?:view_play_list|my_playlists|artist|playlist)\?.*?(p|a|list)=|user/.*?/user/|p/|user/.*?#[pg]/c/)([0-9A-Za-z]+)(?:/.*?/([0-9A-Za-z_-]+))?.*'
+       _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/%s?%s=%s&page=%s&gl=US&hl=en'
+       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'/watch\?v=(.+?)&'
+       _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'(?m)>\s*Next\s*</a>'
+       _youtube_ie = None
+
+       def __init__(self, youtube_ie, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+               self._youtube_ie = youtube_ie
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(YoutubePlaylistIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_page(self, playlist_id, pagenum):
+               """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] PL %s: Downloading page #%s' % (playlist_id, pagenum))
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               self._youtube_ie.initialize()
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               # Extract playlist id
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid url: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               # Single video case
+               if mobj.group(3) is not None:
+                       self._youtube_ie.extract(mobj.group(3))
+                       return
 
                # Download playlist pages
-               playlist_id = mobj.group(1)
+               # prefix is 'p' as default for playlists but there are other types that need extra care
+               playlist_prefix = mobj.group(1)
+               if playlist_prefix == 'a':
+                       playlist_access = 'artist'
+               else:
+                       playlist_prefix = 'p'
+                       playlist_access = 'view_play_list'
+               playlist_id = mobj.group(2)
                video_ids = []
                pagenum = 1
 
                while True:
                        self.report_download_page(playlist_id, pagenum)
-                       request = urllib2.Request(self._TEMPLATE_URL % (playlist_id, pagenum), None, std_headers)
+                       request = urllib2.Request(self._TEMPLATE_URL % (playlist_access, playlist_prefix, playlist_id, pagenum))
                        try:
                                page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                        except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
@@ -1364,37 +2485,45 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
                                        ids_in_page.append(mobj.group(1))
                        video_ids.extend(ids_in_page)
 
-                       if (self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR % (playlist_id.upper(), pagenum + 1)) not in page:
+                       if re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, page) is None:
                                break
                        pagenum = pagenum + 1
 
+               playliststart = self._downloader.params.get('playliststart', 1) - 1
+               playlistend = self._downloader.params.get('playlistend', -1)
+               video_ids = video_ids[playliststart:playlistend]
+
                for id in video_ids:
                        self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id)
                return
 
+
 class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
        """Information Extractor for YouTube users."""
 
-       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube.com/user/(.*)'
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:(?:(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube.com/user/)|ytuser:)([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)'
        _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/%s'
-       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/(.*)' # XXX Fix this.
+       _GDATA_PAGE_SIZE = 50
+       _GDATA_URL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/%s/uploads?max-results=%d&start-index=%d'
+       _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'/watch\?v=(.+?)&'
        _youtube_ie = None
 
        def __init__(self, youtube_ie, downloader=None):
                InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
                self._youtube_ie = youtube_ie
-       
+
        @staticmethod
        def suitable(url):
                return (re.match(YoutubeUserIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
 
-       def report_download_page(self, username):
+       def report_download_page(self, username, start_index):
                """Report attempt to download user page."""
-               self._downloader.to_stdout(u'[youtube] user %s: Downloading page ' % (username))
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] user %s: Downloading video ids from %d to %d' %
+                               (username, start_index, start_index + self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE))
 
        def _real_initialize(self):
                self._youtube_ie.initialize()
-       
+
        def _real_extract(self, url):
                # Extract username
                mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
@@ -1402,31 +2531,654 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
                        self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid url: %s' % url)
                        return
 
-               # Download user page
                username = mobj.group(1)
+
+               # Download video ids using YouTube Data API. Result size per
+               # query is limited (currently to 50 videos) so we need to query
+               # page by page until there are no video ids - it means we got
+               # all of them.
+
                video_ids = []
-               pagenum = 1
+               pagenum = 0
+
+               while True:
+                       start_index = pagenum * self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE + 1
+                       self.report_download_page(username, start_index)
+
+                       request = urllib2.Request(self._GDATA_URL % (username, self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE, start_index))
+
+                       try:
+                               page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+
+                       # Extract video identifiers
+                       ids_in_page = []
+
+                       for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
+                               if mobj.group(1) not in ids_in_page:
+                                       ids_in_page.append(mobj.group(1))
+
+                       video_ids.extend(ids_in_page)
+
+                       # A little optimization - if current page is not
+                       # "full", ie. does not contain PAGE_SIZE video ids then
+                       # we can assume that this page is the last one - there
+                       # are no more ids on further pages - no need to query
+                       # again.
+
+                       if len(ids_in_page) < self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE:
+                               break
+
+                       pagenum += 1
+
+               all_ids_count = len(video_ids)
+               playliststart = self._downloader.params.get('playliststart', 1) - 1
+               playlistend = self._downloader.params.get('playlistend', -1)
+
+               if playlistend == -1:
+                       video_ids = video_ids[playliststart:]
+               else:
+                       video_ids = video_ids[playliststart:playlistend]
+
+               self._downloader.to_screen("[youtube] user %s: Collected %d video ids (downloading %d of them)" %
+                               (username, all_ids_count, len(video_ids)))
+
+               for video_id in video_ids:
+                       self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % video_id)
+
+
+class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for depositfiles.com"""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?depositfiles.com/(?:../(?#locale))?files/(.+)'
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(DepositFilesIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
 
-               self.report_download_page(username)
-               request = urllib2.Request(self._TEMPLATE_URL % (username), None, std_headers)
+       def report_download_webpage(self, file_id):
+               """Report webpage download."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[DepositFiles] %s: Downloading webpage' % file_id)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, file_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[DepositFiles] %s: Extracting information' % file_id)
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               return
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               # At this point we have a new file
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
+               file_id = url.split('/')[-1]
+               # Rebuild url in english locale
+               url = 'http://depositfiles.com/en/files/' + file_id
+
+               # Retrieve file webpage with 'Free download' button pressed
+               free_download_indication = { 'gateway_result' : '1' }
+               request = urllib2.Request(url, urllib.urlencode(free_download_indication))
                try:
-                       page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       self.report_download_webpage(file_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file webpage: %s' % str(err))
                        return
 
-               # Extract video identifiers
-               ids_in_page = []
+               # Search for the real file URL
+               mobj = re.search(r'<form action="(http://fileshare.+?)"', webpage)
+               if (mobj is None) or (mobj.group(1) is None):
+                       # Try to figure out reason of the error.
+                       mobj = re.search(r'<strong>(Attention.*?)</strong>', webpage, re.DOTALL)
+                       if (mobj is not None) and (mobj.group(1) is not None):
+                               restriction_message = re.sub('\s+', ' ', mobj.group(1)).strip()
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: %s' % restriction_message)
+                       else:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract download URL from: %s' % url)
+                       return
 
-               for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
-                       if mobj.group(1) not in ids_in_page:
-                               ids_in_page.append(mobj.group(1))
-               video_ids.extend(ids_in_page)
+               file_url = mobj.group(1)
+               file_extension = os.path.splitext(file_url)[1][1:]
 
-               for id in video_ids:
-                       self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id)
+               # Search for file title
+               mobj = re.search(r'<b title="(.*?)">', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract title')
+                       return
+               file_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+
+               try:
+                       # Process file information
+                       self._downloader.process_info({
+                               'id':           file_id.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'url':          file_url.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'uploader':     u'NA',
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
+                               'title':        file_title,
+                               'stitle':       file_title,
+                               'ext':          file_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
+                       })
+               except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download file')
+
+
+class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for Facebook"""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?facebook.com/video/video.php\?(?:.*?)v=(?P<ID>\d+)(?:.*)'
+       _LOGIN_URL = 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&next=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php&'
+       _NETRC_MACHINE = 'facebook'
+       _available_formats = ['highqual', 'lowqual']
+       _video_extensions = {
+               'highqual': 'mp4',
+               'lowqual': 'mp4',
+       }
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(FacebookIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def _reporter(self, message):
+               """Add header and report message."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[facebook] %s' % message)
+
+       def report_login(self):
+               """Report attempt to log in."""
+               self._reporter(u'Logging in')
+
+       def report_video_webpage_download(self, video_id):
+               """Report attempt to download video webpage."""
+               self._reporter(u'%s: Downloading video webpage' % video_id)
+
+       def report_information_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report attempt to extract video information."""
+               self._reporter(u'%s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
+
+       def _parse_page(self, video_webpage):
+               """Extract video information from page"""
+               # General data
+               data = {'title': r'class="video_title datawrap">(.*?)</',
+                       'description': r'<div class="datawrap">(.*?)</div>',
+                       'owner': r'\("video_owner_name", "(.*?)"\)',
+                       'upload_date': r'data-date="(.*?)"',
+                       'thumbnail':  r'\("thumb_url", "(?P<THUMB>.*?)"\)',
+                       }
+               video_info = {}
+               for piece in data.keys():
+                       mobj = re.search(data[piece], video_webpage)
+                       if mobj is not None:
+                               video_info[piece] = urllib.unquote_plus(mobj.group(1).decode("unicode_escape"))
+
+               # Video urls
+               video_urls = {}
+               for fmt in self._available_formats:
+                       mobj = re.search(r'\("%s_src\", "(.+?)"\)' % fmt, video_webpage)
+                       if mobj is not None:
+                               # URL is in a Javascript segment inside an escaped Unicode format within
+                               # the generally utf-8 page
+                               video_urls[fmt] = urllib.unquote_plus(mobj.group(1).decode("unicode_escape"))
+               video_info['video_urls'] = video_urls
+
+               return video_info
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
+               if self._downloader is None:
+                       return
+
+               useremail = None
+               password = None
+               downloader_params = self._downloader.params
+
+               # Attempt to use provided username and password or .netrc data
+               if downloader_params.get('username', None) is not None:
+                       useremail = downloader_params['username']
+                       password = downloader_params['password']
+               elif downloader_params.get('usenetrc', False):
+                       try:
+                               info = netrc.netrc().authenticators(self._NETRC_MACHINE)
+                               if info is not None:
+                                       useremail = info[0]
+                                       password = info[2]
+                               else:
+                                       raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
+                       except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError), err:
+                               self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: parsing .netrc: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+
+               if useremail is None:
+                       return
+
+               # Log in
+               login_form = {
+                       'email': useremail,
+                       'pass': password,
+                       'login': 'Log+In'
+                       }
+               request = urllib2.Request(self._LOGIN_URL, urllib.urlencode(login_form))
+               try:
+                       self.report_login()
+                       login_results = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+                       if re.search(r'<form(.*)name="login"(.*)</form>', login_results) is not None:
+                               self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: bad username/password, or exceded login rate limit (~3/min). Check credentials or wait.')
+                               return
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+               video_id = mobj.group('ID')
+
+               # Get video webpage
+               self.report_video_webpage_download(video_id)
+               request = urllib2.Request('https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=%s' % video_id)
+               try:
+                       page = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+                       video_webpage = page.read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               # Start extracting information
+               self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
+
+               # Extract information
+               video_info = self._parse_page(video_webpage)
+
+               # uploader
+               if 'owner' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
+                       return
+               video_uploader = video_info['owner']
+
+               # title
+               if 'title' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
+                       return
+               video_title = video_info['title']
+               video_title = video_title.decode('utf-8')
+               video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+
+               # simplified title
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', video_title)
+               simple_title = simple_title.strip(ur'_')
+
+               # thumbnail image
+               if 'thumbnail' not in video_info:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to extract video thumbnail')
+                       video_thumbnail = ''
+               else:
+                       video_thumbnail = video_info['thumbnail']
+
+               # upload date
+               upload_date = u'NA'
+               if 'upload_date' in video_info:
+                       upload_time = video_info['upload_date']
+                       timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(upload_time)
+                       if timetuple is not None:
+                               try:
+                                       upload_date = time.strftime('%Y%m%d', timetuple[0:9])
+                               except:
+                                       pass
+
+               # description
+               video_description = video_info.get('description', 'No description available.')
+
+               url_map = video_info['video_urls']
+               if len(url_map.keys()) > 0:
+                       # Decide which formats to download
+                       req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
+                       format_limit = self._downloader.params.get('format_limit', None)
+
+                       if format_limit is not None and format_limit in self._available_formats:
+                               format_list = self._available_formats[self._available_formats.index(format_limit):]
+                       else:
+                               format_list = self._available_formats
+                       existing_formats = [x for x in format_list if x in url_map]
+                       if len(existing_formats) == 0:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: no known formats available for video')
+                               return
+                       if req_format is None:
+                               video_url_list = [(existing_formats[0], url_map[existing_formats[0]])] # Best quality
+                       elif req_format == '-1':
+                               video_url_list = [(f, url_map[f]) for f in existing_formats] # All formats
+                       else:
+                               # Specific format
+                               if req_format not in url_map:
+                                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: requested format not available')
+                                       return
+                               video_url_list = [(req_format, url_map[req_format])] # Specific format
+
+               for format_param, video_real_url in video_url_list:
+
+                       # At this point we have a new video
+                       self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
+                       # Extension
+                       video_extension = self._video_extensions.get(format_param, 'mp4')
+
+                       try:
+                               # Process video information
+                               self._downloader.process_info({
+                                       'id':           video_id.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'url':          video_real_url.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'uploader':     video_uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'upload_date':  upload_date,
+                                       'title':        video_title,
+                                       'stitle':       simple_title,
+                                       'ext':          video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'format':       (format_param is None and u'NA' or format_param.decode('utf-8')),
+                                       'thumbnail':    video_thumbnail.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'description':  video_description.decode('utf-8'),
+                                       'player_url':   None,
+                               })
+                       except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+
+class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for blip.tv"""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?blip\.tv(/.+)$'
+       _URL_EXT = r'^.*\.([a-z0-9]+)$'
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(BlipTVIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, file_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[blip.tv] %s: Extracting information' % file_id)
+
+       def _simplify_title(self, title):
+               res = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', title)
+               res = res.strip(ur'_')
+               return res
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               if '?' in url:
+                       cchar = '&'
+               else:
+                       cchar = '?'
+               json_url = url + cchar + 'skin=json&version=2&no_wrap=1'
+               request = urllib2.Request(json_url)
+               self.report_extraction(mobj.group(1))
+               try:
+                       json_code = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+               try:
+                       json_data = json.loads(json_code)
+                       if 'Post' in json_data:
+                               data = json_data['Post']
+                       else:
+                               data = json_data
+
+                       upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(data['datestamp'], '%m-%d-%y %H:%M%p').strftime('%Y%m%d')
+                       video_url = data['media']['url']
+                       umobj = re.match(self._URL_EXT, video_url)
+                       if umobj is None:
+                               raise ValueError('Can not determine filename extension')
+                       ext = umobj.group(1)
+
+                       self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
+                       info = {
+                               'id': data['item_id'],
+                               'url': video_url,
+                               'uploader': data['display_name'],
+                               'upload_date': upload_date,
+                               'title': data['title'],
+                               'stitle': self._simplify_title(data['title']),
+                               'ext': ext,
+                               'format': data['media']['mimeType'],
+                               'thumbnail': data['thumbnailUrl'],
+                               'description': data['description'],
+                               'player_url': data['embedUrl']
+                       }
+               except (ValueError,KeyError), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to parse video information: %s' % repr(err))
+                       return
+
+               try:
+                       self._downloader.process_info(info)
+               except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+
+
+class MyVideoIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information Extractor for myvideo.de."""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?myvideo\.de/watch/([0-9]+)/([^?/]+).*'
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+               InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+       
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(MyVideoIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
+               """Report webpage download."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[myvideo] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[myvideo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+
+       def _real_initialize(self):
                return
 
+       def _real_extract(self,url):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._download.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               video_id = mobj.group(1)
+               simple_title = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
+               # should actually not be necessary
+               simple_title = sanitize_title(simple_title)
+               simple_title = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', simple_title)
+
+               # Get video webpage
+               request = urllib2.Request('http://www.myvideo.de/watch/%s' % video_id)
+               try:
+                       self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
+               mobj = re.search(r'<link rel=\'image_src\' href=\'(http://is[0-9].myvideo\.de/de/movie[0-9]+/[a-f0-9]+)/thumbs/[^.]+\.jpg\' />',
+                                webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract media URL')
+                       return
+               video_url = mobj.group(1) + ('/%s.flv' % video_id)
+
+               mobj = re.search('<title>([^<]+)</title>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract title')
+                       return
+
+               video_title = mobj.group(1)
+               video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+
+               try:
+                       print(video_url)
+                       self._downloader.process_info({
+                               'id':           video_id,
+                               'url':          video_url,
+                               'uploader':     u'NA',
+                               'upload_date':  u'NA',
+                               'title':        video_title,
+                               'stitle':       simple_title,
+                               'ext':          u'flv',
+                               'format':       u'NA',
+                               'player_url':   None,
+                       })
+               except UnavailableVideoError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: Unable to download video')
+
+class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for The Daily Show and Colbert Report """
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'^(:(?P<shortname>tds|thedailyshow|cr|colbert|colbertnation|colbertreport))|(https?://)?(www\.)(?P<showname>thedailyshow|colbertnation)\.com/full-episodes/(?P<episode>.*)$'
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def suitable(url):
+               return (re.match(ComedyCentralIE._VALID_URL, url) is not None)
+
+       def report_extraction(self, episode_id):
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Extracting information' % episode_id)
+       
+       def report_config_download(self, episode_id):
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Downloading configuration' % episode_id)
+
+       def report_player_url(self, episode_id):
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Determining player URL' % episode_id)
+
+       def _simplify_title(self, title):
+               res = re.sub(ur'(?u)([^%s]+)' % simple_title_chars, ur'_', title)
+               res = res.strip(ur'_')
+               return res
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+
+               if mobj.group('shortname'):
+                       if mobj.group('shortname') in ('tds', 'thedailyshow'):
+                               url = 'http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'
+                       else:
+                               url = 'http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/'
+                       mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+                       assert mobj is not None
+
+               dlNewest = not mobj.group('episode')
+               if dlNewest:
+                       epTitle = mobj.group('showname')
+               else:
+                       epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
+
+               req = urllib2.Request(url)
+               self.report_extraction(epTitle)
+               try:
+                       htmlHandle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+                       html = htmlHandle.read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % unicode(err))
+                       return
+               if dlNewest:
+                       url = htmlHandle.geturl()
+                       mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+                       if mobj is None:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid redirected URL: ' + url)
+                               return
+                       if mobj.group('episode') == '':
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Redirected URL is still not specific: ' + url)
+                               return
+                       epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
+
+               mMovieParams = re.findall('<param name="movie" value="(http://media.mtvnservices.com/(.*?:episode:([^:]*):)(.*?))"/>', html)
+               if len(mMovieParams) == 0:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
+                       return
+               show_id = mMovieParams[0][2]
+               ACT_COUNT = { # TODO: Detect this dynamically
+                       'thedailyshow.com': 4,
+                       'colbertnation.com': 3,
+               }.get(show_id, 4)
+               OFFSET = {
+                       'thedailyshow.com': 1,
+                       'colbertnation.com': 1,
+               }.get(show_id, 1)
+
+               first_player_url = mMovieParams[0][0]
+               startMediaNum = int(mMovieParams[0][3]) + OFFSET
+               movieId = mMovieParams[0][1]
+
+               playerReq = urllib2.Request(first_player_url)
+               self.report_player_url(epTitle)
+               try:
+                       playerResponse = urllib2.urlopen(playerReq)
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download player: %s' % unicode(err))
+                       return
+               player_url = playerResponse.geturl()
+
+               for actNum in range(ACT_COUNT):
+                       mediaNum = startMediaNum + actNum
+                       mediaId = movieId + str(mediaNum)
+                       configUrl = ('http://www.comedycentral.com/global/feeds/entertainment/media/mediaGenEntertainment.jhtml?' +
+                                               urllib.urlencode({'uri': mediaId}))
+                       configReq = urllib2.Request(configUrl)
+                       self.report_config_download(epTitle)
+                       try:
+                               configXml = urllib2.urlopen(configReq).read()
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % unicode(err))
+                               return
+
+                       cdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(configXml)
+                       turls = []
+                       for rendition in cdoc.findall('.//rendition'):
+                               finfo = (rendition.attrib['bitrate'], rendition.findall('./src')[0].text)
+                               turls.append(finfo)
+
+                       if len(turls) == 0:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + str(mediaNum) + ': No videos found')
+                               continue
+
+                       # For now, just pick the highest bitrate
+                       format,video_url = turls[-1]
+
+                       self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+
+                       effTitle = show_id.replace('.com', '') + '-' + epTitle
+                       info = {
+                               'id': str(mediaNum),
+                               'url': video_url,
+                               'uploader': show_id,
+                               'upload_date': 'NA',
+                               'title': effTitle,
+                               'stitle': self._simplify_title(effTitle),
+                               'ext': 'mp4',
+                               'format': format,
+                               'thumbnail': None,
+                               'description': 'TODO: Not yet supported',
+                               'player_url': player_url
+                       }
+
+                       try:
+                               self._downloader.process_info(info)
+                       except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                               self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + str(mediaNum))
+                               continue
+
+
 class PostProcessor(object):
        """Post Processor class.
 
@@ -1452,7 +3204,7 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
        def set_downloader(self, downloader):
                """Sets the downloader for this PP."""
                self._downloader = downloader
-       
+
        def run(self, information):
                """Run the PostProcessor.
 
@@ -1472,190 +3224,477 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
                it was called from.
                """
                return information # by default, do nothing
-       
-### MAIN PROGRAM ###
-if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+
+class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
+
+       def __init__(self, downloader=None, preferredcodec=None):
+               PostProcessor.__init__(self, downloader)
+               if preferredcodec is None:
+                       preferredcodec = 'best'
+               self._preferredcodec = preferredcodec
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def get_audio_codec(path):
+               try:
+                       cmd = ['ffprobe', '-show_streams', '--', path]
+                       handle = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+                       output = handle.communicate()[0]
+                       if handle.wait() != 0:
+                               return None
+               except (IOError, OSError):
+                       return None
+               audio_codec = None
+               for line in output.split('\n'):
+                       if line.startswith('codec_name='):
+                               audio_codec = line.split('=')[1].strip()
+                       elif line.strip() == 'codec_type=audio' and audio_codec is not None:
+                               return audio_codec
+               return None
+
+       @staticmethod
+       def run_ffmpeg(path, out_path, codec, more_opts):
+               try:
+                       cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', path, '-vn', '-acodec', codec] + more_opts + ['--', out_path]
+                       ret = subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+                       return (ret == 0)
+               except (IOError, OSError):
+                       return False
+
+       def run(self, information):
+               path = information['filepath']
+
+               filecodec = self.get_audio_codec(path)
+               if filecodec is None:
+                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to obtain file audio codec with ffprobe')
+                       return None
+
+               more_opts = []
+               if self._preferredcodec == 'best' or self._preferredcodec == filecodec:
+                       if filecodec == 'aac' or filecodec == 'mp3':
+                               # Lossless if possible
+                               acodec = 'copy'
+                               extension = filecodec
+                               if filecodec == 'aac':
+                                       more_opts = ['-f', 'adts']
+                       else:
+                               # MP3 otherwise.
+                               acodec = 'libmp3lame'
+                               extension = 'mp3'
+                               more_opts = ['-ab', '128k']
+               else:
+                       # We convert the audio (lossy)
+                       acodec = {'mp3': 'libmp3lame', 'aac': 'aac'}[self._preferredcodec]
+                       extension = self._preferredcodec
+                       more_opts = ['-ab', '128k']
+                       if self._preferredcodec == 'aac':
+                               more_opts += ['-f', 'adts']
+
+               (prefix, ext) = os.path.splitext(path)
+               new_path = prefix + '.' + extension
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Destination: %s' % new_path)
+               status = self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
+
+               if not status:
+                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: error running ffmpeg')
+                       return None
+
+               try:
+                       os.remove(path)
+               except (IOError, OSError):
+                       self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: Unable to remove downloaded video file')
+                       return None
+
+               information['filepath'] = new_path
+               return information
+
+
+def updateSelf(downloader, filename):
+       ''' Update the program file with the latest version from the repository '''
+       # Note: downloader only used for options
+       if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
+               sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
+
+       downloader.to_screen('Updating to latest version...')
+
        try:
-               # Modules needed only when running the main program
-               import getpass
-               import optparse
-
-               # Function to update the program file with the latest version from bitbucket.org
-               def update_self(downloader, filename):
-                       # Note: downloader only used for options
-                       if not os.access (filename, os.W_OK):
-                               sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
-
-                       downloader.to_stdout('Updating to latest stable version...')
-                       latest_url = 'http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/tip/LATEST_VERSION'
-                       latest_version = urllib.urlopen(latest_url).read().strip()
-                       prog_url = 'http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/%s/youtube-dl' % latest_version
-                       newcontent = urllib.urlopen(prog_url).read()
-                       stream = open(filename, 'w')
-                       stream.write(newcontent)
-                       stream.close()
-                       downloader.to_stdout('Updated to version %s' % latest_version)
-
-               # General configuration
-               urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyHandler()))
-               urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()))
-               socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
-
-               # Parse command line
-               parser = optparse.OptionParser(
-                       usage='Usage: %prog [options] url...',
-                       version='2010.02.13',
-                       conflict_handler='resolve',
-               )
-
-               parser.add_option('-h', '--help',
-                               action='help', help='print this help text and exit')
-               parser.add_option('-v', '--version',
-                               action='version', help='print program version and exit')
-               parser.add_option('-U', '--update',
-                               action='store_true', dest='update_self', help='update this program to latest stable version')
-               parser.add_option('-i', '--ignore-errors',
-                               action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors', help='continue on download errors', default=False)
-               parser.add_option('-r', '--rate-limit',
-                               dest='ratelimit', metavar='L', help='download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
-
-               authentication = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Authentication Options')
-               authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
-                               dest='username', metavar='UN', help='account username')
-               authentication.add_option('-p', '--password',
-                               dest='password', metavar='PW', help='account password')
-               authentication.add_option('-n', '--netrc',
-                               action='store_true', dest='usenetrc', help='use .netrc authentication data', default=False)
-               parser.add_option_group(authentication)
-
-               video_format = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Format Options')
-               video_format.add_option('-f', '--format',
-                               action='store', dest='format', metavar='FMT', help='video format code')
-               video_format.add_option('-b', '--best-quality',
-                               action='store_const', dest='format', help='download the best quality video possible', const='0')
-               video_format.add_option('-m', '--mobile-version',
-                               action='store_const', dest='format', help='alias for -f 17', const='17')
-               video_format.add_option('-d', '--high-def',
-                               action='store_const', dest='format', help='alias for -f 22', const='22')
-               parser.add_option_group(video_format)
-
-               verbosity = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Verbosity / Simulation Options')
-               verbosity.add_option('-q', '--quiet',
-                               action='store_true', dest='quiet', help='activates quiet mode', default=False)
-               verbosity.add_option('-s', '--simulate',
-                               action='store_true', dest='simulate', help='do not download video', default=False)
-               verbosity.add_option('-g', '--get-url',
-                               action='store_true', dest='geturl', help='simulate, quiet but print URL', default=False)
-               verbosity.add_option('-e', '--get-title',
-                               action='store_true', dest='gettitle', help='simulate, quiet but print title', default=False)
-               parser.add_option_group(verbosity)
-
-               filesystem = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Filesystem Options')
-               filesystem.add_option('-t', '--title',
-                               action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='use title in file name', default=False)
-               filesystem.add_option('-l', '--literal',
-                               action='store_true', dest='useliteral', help='use literal title in file name', default=False)
-               filesystem.add_option('-o', '--output',
-                               dest='outtmpl', metavar='TPL', help='output filename template')
-               filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
-                               dest='batchfile', metavar='F', help='file containing URLs to download')
-               filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites',
-                               action='store_true', dest='nooverwrites', help='do not overwrite files', default=False)
-               filesystem.add_option('-c', '--continue',
-                               action='store_true', dest='continue_dl', help='resume partially downloaded files', default=False)
-               parser.add_option_group(filesystem)
-
-               (opts, args) = parser.parse_args()
-        
-               # Batch file verification
-               batchurls = []
-               if opts.batchfile is not None:
-                       try:
-                               batchurls = open(opts.batchfile, 'r').readlines()
-                               batchurls = [x.strip() for x in batchurls]
-                               batchurls = [x for x in batchurls if len(x) > 0]
-                       except IOError:
-                               sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
-               all_urls = batchurls + args
-
-               # Make sure all URLs are in our preferred encoding
-               for i in range(0, len(all_urls)):
-                       all_urls[i] = unicode(all_urls[i], preferredencoding())
-
-               # Conflicting, missing and erroneous options
-               if opts.usenetrc and (opts.username is not None or opts.password is not None):
-                       parser.error(u'using .netrc conflicts with giving username/password')
-               if opts.password is not None and opts.username is None:
-                       parser.error(u'account username missing')
-               if opts.outtmpl is not None and (opts.useliteral or opts.usetitle):
-                       parser.error(u'using output template conflicts with using title or literal title')
-               if opts.usetitle and opts.useliteral:
-                       parser.error(u'using title conflicts with using literal title')
-               if opts.username is not None and opts.password is None:
-                       opts.password = getpass.getpass(u'Type account password and press return:')
-               if opts.ratelimit is not None:
-                       numeric_limit = FileDownloader.parse_bytes(opts.ratelimit)
-                       if numeric_limit is None:
-                               parser.error(u'invalid rate limit specified')
-                       opts.ratelimit = numeric_limit
-
-               # Information extractors
-               youtube_ie = YoutubeIE()
-               metacafe_ie = MetacafeIE(youtube_ie)
-               youtube_pl_ie = YoutubePlaylistIE(youtube_ie)
-               youtube_user_ie = YoutubeUserIE(youtube_ie)
-               youtube_search_ie = YoutubeSearchIE(youtube_ie)
-               google_ie = GoogleIE()
-               photobucket_ie = PhotobucketIE()
-               generic_ie = GenericIE()
-
-               # File downloader
-               fd = FileDownloader({
-                       'usenetrc': opts.usenetrc,
-                       'username': opts.username,
-                       'password': opts.password,
-                       'quiet': (opts.quiet or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle),
-                       'forceurl': opts.geturl,
-                       'forcetitle': opts.gettitle,
-                       'simulate': (opts.simulate or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle),
-                       'format': opts.format,
-                       'outtmpl': ((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding()))
-                               or (opts.usetitle and u'%(stitle)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
-                               or (opts.useliteral and u'%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
-                               or u'%(id)s.%(ext)s'),
-                       'ignoreerrors': opts.ignoreerrors,
-                       'ratelimit': opts.ratelimit,
-                       'nooverwrites': opts.nooverwrites,
-                       'continuedl': opts.continue_dl,
-                       })
-               fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_search_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_pl_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_user_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(metacafe_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(google_ie)
-               fd.add_info_extractor(photobucket_ie)
-
-               # This must come last since it's the
-               # fallback if none of the others work
-               fd.add_info_extractor(generic_ie)
-
-               # Update version
-               if opts.update_self:
-                       update_self(fd, sys.argv[0])
-
-               # Maybe do nothing
-               if len(all_urls) < 1:
-                       if not opts.update_self:
-                               parser.error(u'you must provide at least one URL')
+               try:
+                       urlh = urllib.urlopen(UPDATE_URL)
+                       newcontent = urlh.read()
+               finally:
+                       urlh.close()
+       except (IOError, OSError), err:
+               sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
+
+       try:
+               outf = open(filename, 'wb')
+               try:
+                       outf.write(newcontent)
+               finally:
+                       outf.close()
+       except (IOError, OSError), err:
+               sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
+
+       downloader.to_screen('Updated youtube-dl. Restart to use the new version.')
+
+def parseOpts():
+       # Deferred imports
+       import getpass
+       import optparse
+
+       def _format_option_string(option):
+               ''' ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR'''
+
+               opts = []
+
+               if option._short_opts: opts.append(option._short_opts[0])
+               if option._long_opts: opts.append(option._long_opts[0])
+               if len(opts) > 1: opts.insert(1, ', ')
+
+               if option.takes_value(): opts.append(' %s' % option.metavar)
+
+               return "".join(opts)
+
+       def _find_term_columns():
+               columns = os.environ.get('COLUMNS', None)
+               if columns:
+                       return int(columns)
+
+               try:
+                       sp = subprocess.Popen(['stty', 'size'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                       out,err = sp.communicate()
+                       return int(out.split()[1])
+               except:
+                       pass
+               return None
+
+       max_width = 80
+       max_help_position = 80
+
+       # No need to wrap help messages if we're on a wide console
+       columns = _find_term_columns()
+       if columns: max_width = columns
+
+       fmt = optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter(width=max_width, max_help_position=max_help_position)
+       fmt.format_option_strings = _format_option_string
+
+       kw = {
+               'version'   : __version__,
+               'formatter' : fmt,
+               'usage' : '%prog [options] url...',
+               'conflict_handler' : 'resolve',
+       }
+
+       parser = optparse.OptionParser(**kw)
+
+       # option groups
+       general        = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'General Options')
+       authentication = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Authentication Options')
+       video_format   = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Format Options')
+       postproc       = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Post-processing Options')
+       filesystem     = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Filesystem Options')
+       verbosity      = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Verbosity / Simulation Options')
+
+       general.add_option('-h', '--help',
+                       action='help', help='print this help text and exit')
+       general.add_option('-v', '--version',
+                       action='version', help='print program version and exit')
+       general.add_option('-U', '--update',
+                       action='store_true', dest='update_self', help='update this program to latest version')
+       general.add_option('-i', '--ignore-errors',
+                       action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors', help='continue on download errors', default=False)
+       general.add_option('-r', '--rate-limit',
+                       dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT', help='download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
+       general.add_option('-R', '--retries',
+                       dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', help='number of retries (default is 10)', default=10)
+       general.add_option('--playlist-start',
+                       dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to start at (default is 1)', default=1)
+       general.add_option('--playlist-end',
+                       dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
+       general.add_option('--dump-user-agent',
+                       action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent',
+                       help='display the current browser identification', default=False)
+
+       authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
+                       dest='username', metavar='USERNAME', help='account username')
+       authentication.add_option('-p', '--password',
+                       dest='password', metavar='PASSWORD', help='account password')
+       authentication.add_option('-n', '--netrc',
+                       action='store_true', dest='usenetrc', help='use .netrc authentication data', default=False)
+
+
+       video_format.add_option('-f', '--format',
+                       action='store', dest='format', metavar='FORMAT', help='video format code')
+       video_format.add_option('--all-formats',
+                       action='store_const', dest='format', help='download all available video formats', const='-1')
+       video_format.add_option('--max-quality',
+                       action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT', help='highest quality format to download')
+
+
+       verbosity.add_option('-q', '--quiet',
+                       action='store_true', dest='quiet', help='activates quiet mode', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('-s', '--simulate',
+                       action='store_true', dest='simulate', help='do not download video', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('-g', '--get-url',
+                       action='store_true', dest='geturl', help='simulate, quiet but print URL', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('-e', '--get-title',
+                       action='store_true', dest='gettitle', help='simulate, quiet but print title', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--get-thumbnail',
+                       action='store_true', dest='getthumbnail',
+                       help='simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--get-description',
+                       action='store_true', dest='getdescription',
+                       help='simulate, quiet but print video description', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--get-filename',
+                       action='store_true', dest='getfilename',
+                       help='simulate, quiet but print output filename', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--no-progress',
+                       action='store_true', dest='noprogress', help='do not print progress bar', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--console-title',
+                       action='store_true', dest='consoletitle',
+                       help='display progress in console titlebar', default=False)
+
+
+       filesystem.add_option('-t', '--title',
+                       action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='use title in file name', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('-l', '--literal',
+                       action='store_true', dest='useliteral', help='use literal title in file name', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('-A', '--auto-number',
+                       action='store_true', dest='autonumber',
+                       help='number downloaded files starting from 00000', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('-o', '--output',
+                       dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template')
+       filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
+                       dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+       filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites',
+                       action='store_true', dest='nooverwrites', help='do not overwrite files', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('-c', '--continue',
+                       action='store_true', dest='continue_dl', help='resume partially downloaded files', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('--cookies',
+                       dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE', help='file to dump cookie jar to')
+       filesystem.add_option('--no-part',
+                       action='store_true', dest='nopart', help='do not use .part files', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('--no-mtime',
+                       action='store_false', dest='updatetime',
+                       help='do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time', default=True)
+       filesystem.add_option('--write-description',
+                       action='store_true', dest='writedescription',
+                       help='write video description to a .description file', default=False)
+       filesystem.add_option('--write-info-json',
+                       action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson',
+                       help='write video metadata to a .info.json file', default=False)
+
+
+       postproc.add_option('--extract-audio', action='store_true', dest='extractaudio', default=False,
+                       help='convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)')
+       postproc.add_option('--audio-format', metavar='FORMAT', dest='audioformat', default='best',
+                       help='"best", "aac" or "mp3"; best by default')
+
+
+       parser.add_option_group(general)
+       parser.add_option_group(filesystem)
+       parser.add_option_group(verbosity)
+       parser.add_option_group(video_format)
+       parser.add_option_group(authentication)
+       parser.add_option_group(postproc)
+
+       opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+
+       return parser, opts, args
+
+def main():
+       parser, opts, args = parseOpts()
+
+       # Open appropriate CookieJar
+       if opts.cookiefile is None:
+               jar = cookielib.CookieJar()
+       else:
+               try:
+                       jar = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar(opts.cookiefile)
+                       if os.path.isfile(opts.cookiefile) and os.access(opts.cookiefile, os.R_OK):
+                               jar.load()
+               except (IOError, OSError), err:
+                       sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file')
+
+       # Dump user agent
+       if opts.dump_user_agent:
+               print std_headers['User-Agent']
+               sys.exit(0)
+
+       # General configuration
+       cookie_processor = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
+       opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyHandler(), cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
+       urllib2.install_opener(opener)
+       socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
+
+       # Batch file verification
+       batchurls = []
+       if opts.batchfile is not None:
+               try:
+                       if opts.batchfile == '-':
+                               batchfd = sys.stdin
                        else:
-                               sys.exit()
-               retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
-               sys.exit(retcode)
+                               batchfd = open(opts.batchfile, 'r')
+                       batchurls = batchfd.readlines()
+                       batchurls = [x.strip() for x in batchurls]
+                       batchurls = [x for x in batchurls if len(x) > 0 and not re.search(r'^[#/;]', x)]
+               except IOError:
+                       sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
+       all_urls = batchurls + args
+
+       # Conflicting, missing and erroneous options
+       if opts.usenetrc and (opts.username is not None or opts.password is not None):
+               parser.error(u'using .netrc conflicts with giving username/password')
+       if opts.password is not None and opts.username is None:
+               parser.error(u'account username missing')
+       if opts.outtmpl is not None and (opts.useliteral or opts.usetitle or opts.autonumber):
+               parser.error(u'using output template conflicts with using title, literal title or auto number')
+       if opts.usetitle and opts.useliteral:
+               parser.error(u'using title conflicts with using literal title')
+       if opts.username is not None and opts.password is None:
+               opts.password = getpass.getpass(u'Type account password and press return:')
+       if opts.ratelimit is not None:
+               numeric_limit = FileDownloader.parse_bytes(opts.ratelimit)
+               if numeric_limit is None:
+                       parser.error(u'invalid rate limit specified')
+               opts.ratelimit = numeric_limit
+       if opts.retries is not None:
+               try:
+                       opts.retries = long(opts.retries)
+               except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+                       parser.error(u'invalid retry count specified')
+       try:
+               opts.playliststart = int(opts.playliststart)
+               if opts.playliststart <= 0:
+                       raise ValueError(u'Playlist start must be positive')
+       except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+               parser.error(u'invalid playlist start number specified')
+       try:
+               opts.playlistend = int(opts.playlistend)
+               if opts.playlistend != -1 and (opts.playlistend <= 0 or opts.playlistend < opts.playliststart):
+                       raise ValueError(u'Playlist end must be greater than playlist start')
+       except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+               parser.error(u'invalid playlist end number specified')
+       if opts.extractaudio:
+               if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3']:
+                       parser.error(u'invalid audio format specified')
+
+       # Information extractors
+       youtube_ie = YoutubeIE()
+       metacafe_ie = MetacafeIE(youtube_ie)
+       dailymotion_ie = DailymotionIE()
+       youtube_pl_ie = YoutubePlaylistIE(youtube_ie)
+       youtube_user_ie = YoutubeUserIE(youtube_ie)
+       youtube_search_ie = YoutubeSearchIE(youtube_ie)
+       google_ie = GoogleIE()
+       google_search_ie = GoogleSearchIE(google_ie)
+       photobucket_ie = PhotobucketIE()
+       yahoo_ie = YahooIE()
+       yahoo_search_ie = YahooSearchIE(yahoo_ie)
+       deposit_files_ie = DepositFilesIE()
+       facebook_ie = FacebookIE()
+       bliptv_ie = BlipTVIE()
+       vimeo_ie = VimeoIE()
+       myvideo_ie = MyVideoIE()
+       comedycentral_ie = ComedyCentralIE()
+
+       generic_ie = GenericIE()
+
+       # File downloader
+       fd = FileDownloader({
+               'usenetrc': opts.usenetrc,
+               'username': opts.username,
+               'password': opts.password,
+               'quiet': (opts.quiet or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle or opts.getthumbnail or opts.getdescription or opts.getfilename),
+               'forceurl': opts.geturl,
+               'forcetitle': opts.gettitle,
+               'forcethumbnail': opts.getthumbnail,
+               'forcedescription': opts.getdescription,
+               'forcefilename': opts.getfilename,
+               'simulate': (opts.simulate or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle or opts.getthumbnail or opts.getdescription or opts.getfilename),
+               'format': opts.format,
+               'format_limit': opts.format_limit,
+               'outtmpl': ((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding()))
+                       or (opts.format == '-1' and opts.usetitle and u'%(stitle)s-%(id)s-%(format)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.format == '-1' and opts.useliteral and u'%(title)s-%(id)s-%(format)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.format == '-1' and u'%(id)s-%(format)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.usetitle and opts.autonumber and u'%(autonumber)s-%(stitle)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.useliteral and opts.autonumber and u'%(autonumber)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.usetitle and u'%(stitle)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.useliteral and u'%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or (opts.autonumber and u'%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s')
+                       or u'%(id)s.%(ext)s'),
+               'ignoreerrors': opts.ignoreerrors,
+               'ratelimit': opts.ratelimit,
+               'nooverwrites': opts.nooverwrites,
+               'retries': opts.retries,
+               'continuedl': opts.continue_dl,
+               'noprogress': opts.noprogress,
+               'playliststart': opts.playliststart,
+               'playlistend': opts.playlistend,
+               'logtostderr': opts.outtmpl == '-',
+               'consoletitle': opts.consoletitle,
+               'nopart': opts.nopart,
+               'updatetime': opts.updatetime,
+               'writedescription': opts.writedescription,
+               'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
+               })
+       fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_search_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_pl_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_user_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(metacafe_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(dailymotion_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(youtube_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(google_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(google_search_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(photobucket_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(yahoo_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(yahoo_search_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(deposit_files_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(facebook_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(bliptv_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(vimeo_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(myvideo_ie)
+       fd.add_info_extractor(comedycentral_ie)
+
+       # This must come last since it's the
+       # fallback if none of the others work
+       fd.add_info_extractor(generic_ie)
+
+       # PostProcessors
+       if opts.extractaudio:
+               fd.add_post_processor(FFmpegExtractAudioPP(preferredcodec=opts.audioformat))
+
+       # Update version
+       if opts.update_self:
+               updateSelf(fd, sys.argv[0])
+
+       # Maybe do nothing
+       if len(all_urls) < 1:
+               if not opts.update_self:
+                       parser.error(u'you must provide at least one URL')
+               else:
+                       sys.exit()
+       retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
 
+       # Dump cookie jar if requested
+       if opts.cookiefile is not None:
+               try:
+                       jar.save()
+               except (IOError, OSError), err:
+                       sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to save cookie jar')
+
+       sys.exit(retcode)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+       try:
+               main()
        except DownloadError:
                sys.exit(1)
        except SameFileError:
                sys.exit(u'ERROR: fixed output name but more than one file to download')
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
                sys.exit(u'\nERROR: Interrupted by user')
+
+# vim: set ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 noet ai si filetype=python: