Release 2012.01.08

Makefile: Don't use `echo`'s `-e` option for portability.

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*~

LATEST_VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2011.11.23
+2012.01.08

Makefile

@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ update-readme:
 		header=$$(sed -e '/.*## OPTIONS/,$$ d' README.md) && \
 		footer=$$(sed -e '1,/.*## FAQ/ d' README.md) && \
 		echo "$${header}" > README.md && \
-		echo -e '\n## OPTIONS' >> README.md && \
+		echo >> README.md && \
+		echo '## OPTIONS' >> README.md && \
 		echo "$${options}" >> README.md&& \
-		echo -e '\n## FAQ' >> README.md && \
+		echo >> README.md && \
+		echo '## FAQ' >> README.md && \
 		echo "$${footer}" >> README.md
 
 compile:

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
                              sub-string)
     --reject-title REGEX     skip download for matching titles (regex or
                              caseless sub-string)
+    --max-downloads NUMBER   Abort after downloading NUMBER files
 
 ### Filesystem Options:
     -t, --title              use title in file name
@@ -36,8 +37,10 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     -o, --output TEMPLATE    output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the
                              title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name,
                              %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented
-                             number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, and %%
+                             number, %(ext)s for the filename extension,
-                             for a literal percent
+                             %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), and
+                             %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to
+                             stdout.
     -a, --batch-file FILE    file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
     -w, --no-overwrites      do not overwrite files
     -c, --continue           resume partially downloaded files
@@ -67,6 +70,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 ### Video Format Options:
     -f, --format FORMAT      video format code
     --all-formats            download all available video formats
+    --prefer-free-formats    prefer free video formats unless a specific one is
+                             requested
     --max-quality FORMAT     highest quality format to download
     -F, --list-formats       list all available formats (currently youtube only)
 
@@ -78,7 +83,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 ### Post-processing Options:
     --extract-audio          convert video files to audio-only files (requires
                              ffmpeg and ffprobe)
-    --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default
+    --audio-format FORMAT    "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav";
+                             best by default
     --audio-quality QUALITY  ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default
     -k, --keep-video         keeps the video file on disk after the post-
                              processing; the video is erased by default

devscripts/posix-locale.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+# source this file in your shell to get a POSIX locale (which will break many programs, but that's kind of the point)
+
+export LC_ALL=POSIX
+export LANG=POSIX
+export LANGUAGE=POSIX

youtube-dl

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__author__  = (
+__authors__  = (
 	'Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez',
 	'Danny Colligan',
 	'Benjamin Johnson',
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ __author__  = (
 	'Sören Schulze',
 	'Kevin Ngo',
 	'Ori Avtalion',
+	'shizeeg',
 	)
 
 __license__ = 'Public Domain'
-__version__ = '2011.11.23'
+__version__ = '2012.01.08'
 
 UPDATE_URL = 'https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl'
 
@@ -258,14 +259,14 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
 				import msvcrt
 				msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
 			return (sys.stdout, filename)
-		stream = open(filename, open_mode)
+		stream = open(_encodeFilename(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)
 
 		# An exception here should be caught in the caller
-		stream = open(filename, open_mode)
+		stream = open(_encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
 		return (stream, filename)
 
 
@@ -281,6 +282,31 @@ def _simplify_title(title):
 	expr = re.compile(ur'[^\w\d_\-]+', flags=re.UNICODE)
 	return expr.sub(u'_', title).strip(u'_')
 
+def _orderedSet(iterable):
+	""" Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
+	res = []
+	for el in iterable:
+		if el not in res:
+			res.append(el)
+	return res
+
+def _unescapeHTML(s):
+	"""
+	@param s a string (of type unicode)
+	"""
+	assert type(s) == type(u'')
+
+	htmlParser = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
+	return htmlParser.unescape(s)
+
+def _encodeFilename(s):
+	"""
+	@param s The name of the file (of type unicode)
+	"""
+
+	assert type(s) == type(u'')
+	return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
+
 class DownloadError(Exception):
 	"""Download Error exception.
 
@@ -308,6 +334,10 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
 	"""
 	pass
 
+class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
+	""" --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
+	pass
+
 
 class UnavailableVideoError(Exception):
 	"""Unavailable Format exception.
@@ -541,16 +571,17 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		self._pps.append(pp)
 		pp.set_downloader(self)
 
-	def to_screen(self, message, skip_eol=False, ignore_encoding_errors=False):
+	def to_screen(self, message, skip_eol=False):
 		"""Print message to stdout if not in quiet mode."""
-		try:
+		assert type(message) == type(u'')
 		if not self.params.get('quiet', False):
 			terminator = [u'\n', u''][skip_eol]
-				print >>self._screen_file, (u'%s%s' % (message, terminator)).encode(preferredencoding()),
+			output = message + terminator
+
+			if 'b' not in self._screen_file.mode or sys.version_info[0] < 3: # Python 2 lies about the mode of sys.stdout/sys.stderr
+				output = output.encode(preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
+			self._screen_file.write(output)
 			self._screen_file.flush()
-		except (UnicodeEncodeError), err:
-			if not ignore_encoding_errors:
-				raise
 
 	def to_stderr(self, message):
 		"""Print message to stderr."""
@@ -600,7 +631,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 	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)):
+				(os.path.exists(_encodeFilename(filename)) and not os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename))):
 			return filename
 		return filename + u'.part'
 
@@ -613,7 +644,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		try:
 			if old_filename == new_filename:
 				return
-			os.rename(old_filename, new_filename)
+			os.rename(_encodeFilename(old_filename), _encodeFilename(new_filename))
 		except (IOError, OSError), err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to rename file')
 
@@ -621,7 +652,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		"""Try to set the last-modified time of the given file."""
 		if last_modified_hdr is None:
 			return
-		if not os.path.isfile(filename):
+		if not os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename)):
 			return
 		timestr = last_modified_hdr
 		if timestr is None:
@@ -637,15 +668,15 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
 	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)
+		self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video description to: ' + descfn)
 
 	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)
+		self.to_screen(u'[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
 
 	def report_destination(self, filename):
 		"""Report destination filename."""
-		self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: %s' % filename, ignore_encoding_errors=True)
+		self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: ' + filename)
 
 	def report_progress(self, percent_str, data_len_str, speed_str, eta_str):
 		"""Report download progress."""
@@ -698,8 +729,31 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid system charset or erroneous output template')
 			return None
 
+	def _match_entry(self, info_dict):
+		""" Returns None iff the file should be downloaded """
+
+		title = info_dict['title']
+		matchtitle = self.params.get('matchtitle', False)
+		if matchtitle and not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+			return u'[download] "' + title + '" title did not match pattern "' + matchtitle + '"'
+		rejecttitle = self.params.get('rejecttitle', False)
+		if rejecttitle and re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+			return u'"' + title + '" title matched reject pattern "' + rejecttitle + '"'
+		return None
+
 	def process_info(self, info_dict):
 		"""Process a single dictionary returned by an InfoExtractor."""
+
+		reason = self._match_entry(info_dict)
+		if reason is not None:
+			self.to_screen(u'[download] ' + reason)
+			return
+
+		max_downloads = self.params.get('max_downloads')
+		if max_downloads is not None:
+			if self._num_downloads > int(max_downloads):
+				raise MaxDownloadsReached()
+
 		filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict)
 		
 		# Forced printings
@@ -723,23 +777,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		if filename is None:
 			return
 
-		matchtitle=self.params.get('matchtitle',False)
-		rejecttitle=self.params.get('rejecttitle',False)
-		title=info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-		if matchtitle and not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
-			self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title did not match pattern "%s"' % (title, matchtitle))
-			return
-		if rejecttitle and re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
-			self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title matched reject pattern "%s"' % (title, rejecttitle))
-			return
-			
-		if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(filename):
-			self.to_stderr(u'WARNING: file exists and will be skipped')
-			return
-
 		try:
-			dn = os.path.dirname(filename)
+			dn = os.path.dirname(_encodeFilename(filename))
-			if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn):
+			if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn): # dn is already encoded
 				os.makedirs(dn)
 		except (OSError, IOError), err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to create directory ' + unicode(err))
@@ -747,9 +787,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
 		if self.params.get('writedescription', False):
 			try:
-				descfn = filename + '.description'
+				descfn = filename + u'.description'
 				self.report_writedescription(descfn)
-				descfile = open(descfn, 'wb')
+				descfile = open(_encodeFilename(descfn), 'wb')
 				try:
 					descfile.write(info_dict['description'].encode('utf-8'))
 				finally:
@@ -759,7 +799,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				return
 
 		if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
-			infofn = filename + '.info.json'
+			infofn = filename + u'.info.json'
 			self.report_writeinfojson(infofn)
 			try:
 				json.dump
@@ -767,7 +807,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				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')
+				infof = open(_encodeFilename(infofn), 'wb')
 				try:
 					json_info_dict = dict((k,v) for k,v in info_dict.iteritems() if not k in ('urlhandle',))
 					json.dump(json_info_dict, infof)
@@ -778,6 +818,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				return
 
 		if not self.params.get('skip_download', False):
+			if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(_encodeFilename(filename)):
+				success = True
+			else:
 				try:
 					success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict)
 				except (OSError, IOError), err:
@@ -848,11 +891,11 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		basic_args = ['rtmpdump', '-q'] + [[], ['-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:
-			prevsize = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+			prevsize = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(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)
+			cursize = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename))
 			if prevsize == cursize and retval == 1:
 				break
 			 # Some rtmp streams seem abort after ~ 99.8%. Don't complain for those
@@ -861,7 +904,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				retval = 0
 				break
 		if retval == 0:
-			self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(tmpfilename))
+			self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename)))
 			self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
 			return True
 		else:
@@ -873,7 +916,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		player_url = info_dict.get('player_url', None)
 
 		# Check file already present
-		if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(filename) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
+		if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename)) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
 			self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)
 			return True
 
@@ -890,8 +933,8 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
 
 		# Establish possible resume length
-		if os.path.isfile(tmpfilename):
+		if os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename)):
-			resume_len = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+			resume_len = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename))
 		else:
 			resume_len = 0
 
@@ -1095,6 +1138,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 	_NETRC_MACHINE = 'youtube'
 	# Listed in order of quality
 	_available_formats = ['38', '37', '22', '45', '35', '44', '34', '18', '43', '6', '5', '17', '13']
+	_available_formats_prefer_free = ['38', '37', '45', '22', '44', '35', '43', '34', '18', '6', '5', '17', '13']
 	_video_extensions = {
 		'13': '3gp',
 		'17': 'mp4',
@@ -1344,10 +1388,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 			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:
+			available_formats = self._available_formats_prefer_free if self._downloader.params.get('prefer_free_formats', False) else self._available_formats
-				format_list = self._available_formats[self._available_formats.index(format_limit):]
+			if format_limit is not None and format_limit in available_formats:
+				format_list = available_formats[available_formats.index(format_limit):]
 			else:
-				format_list = self._available_formats
+				format_list = 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')
@@ -1573,7 +1618,6 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
 		video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-		simple_title = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
 		video_extension = 'flv'
 
 		# Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
@@ -1603,12 +1647,13 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		video_url = mediaURL
 
-		mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>Dailymotion\s*-\s*(.+)\s*-\s*[^<]+?</title>', webpage)
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta property="og:title" content="(?P<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 = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group('title').decode('utf-8'))
 		video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+		simple_title = _simplify_title(video_title)
 
 		mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<span class="owner[^\"]+?">[^<]+?<a [^>]+?>([^<]+?)</a></span>', webpage)
 		if mobj is None:
@@ -3122,7 +3167,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 				return
 			epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
 
-		mMovieParams = re.findall('<param name="movie" value="(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*episode.*?:.*?))"/>', html)
+		mMovieParams = re.findall('(?:<param name="movie" value="|var url = ")(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*episode.*?:.*?))"', html)
 		if len(mMovieParams) == 0:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
 			return
@@ -3608,6 +3653,339 @@ class InfoQIE(InfoExtractor):
 		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_url)
 
+class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for www.mixcloud.com"""
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?mixcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/([\w\d-]+)'
+	IE_NAME = u'mixcloud'
+
+	def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+		InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+	def report_download_json(self, file_id):
+		"""Report JSON download."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] Downloading json' % self.IE_NAME)
+
+	def report_extraction(self, file_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
+
+	def get_urls(self, jsonData, fmt, bitrate='best'):
+		"""Get urls from 'audio_formats' section in json"""
+		file_url = None
+		try:
+			bitrate_list = jsonData[fmt]
+			if bitrate is None or bitrate == 'best' or bitrate not in bitrate_list:
+				bitrate = max(bitrate_list) # select highest
+
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt][bitrate]
+		except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info.
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt]
+				
+		return url_list
+
+	def check_urls(self, url_list):
+		"""Returns 1st active url from list"""
+		for url in url_list:
+			try:
+				urllib2.urlopen(url)
+				return url
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				url = None
+
+		return None
+
+	def _print_formats(self, formats):
+		print 'Available formats:'
+		for fmt in formats.keys():
+			for b in formats[fmt]:
+				try:
+					ext = formats[fmt][b][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, b, ext.split('.')[-1])
+				except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info
+					ext = formats[fmt][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, '??', ext.split('.')[-1])
+					break
+
+	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
+		# extract uploader & filename from url
+		uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+		file_id = uploader + "-" + mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
+
+		# construct API request
+		file_url = 'http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/' + '/'.join(url.split('/')[-3:-1]) + '.json'
+		# retrieve .json file with links to files
+		request = urllib2.Request(file_url)
+		try:
+			self.report_download_json(file_url)
+			jsonData = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		# parse JSON
+		json_data = json.loads(jsonData)
+		player_url = json_data['player_swf_url']
+		formats = dict(json_data['audio_formats'])
+
+		req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
+		bitrate = None
+
+		if self._downloader.params.get('listformats', None):
+			self._print_formats(formats)
+			return
+
+		if req_format is None or req_format == 'best':
+			for format_param in formats.keys():
+				url_list = self.get_urls(formats, format_param)
+				# check urls
+				file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+				if file_url is not None:
+					break # got it!
+		else:
+			if req_format not in formats.keys():
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format is not available')
+				return
+
+			url_list = self.get_urls(formats, req_format)
+			file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+			format_param = req_format
+
+		# We have audio
+		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+		try:
+			# Process file information
+			self._downloader.process_info({
+				'id': file_id.decode('utf-8'),
+				'url': file_url.decode('utf-8'),
+				'uploader':	uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+				'upload_date': u'NA',
+				'title': json_data['name'],
+				'stitle': _simplify_title(json_data['name']),
+				'ext': file_url.split('.')[-1].decode('utf-8'),
+				'format': (format_param is None and u'NA' or format_param.decode('utf-8')),
+				'thumbnail': json_data['thumbnail_url'],
+				'description': json_data['description'],
+				'player_url': player_url.decode('utf-8'),
+			})
+		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download file')
+
+class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for Stanford's Open ClassRoom"""
+
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?openclassroom.stanford.edu(?P<path>/?|(/MainFolder/(?:HomePage|CoursePage|VideoPage)\.php([?]course=(?P<course>[^&]+)(&video=(?P<video>[^&]+))?(&.*)?)?))$'
+	IE_NAME = u'stanfordoc'
+
+	def report_download_webpage(self, objid):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, objid))
+
+	def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	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('course') and mobj.group('video'): # A specific video
+			course = mobj.group('course')
+			video = mobj.group('video')
+			info = {
+				'id': _simplify_title(course + '_' + video),
+			}
+	
+			self.report_extraction(info['id'])
+			baseUrl = 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/courses/' + course + '/videos/'
+			xmlUrl = baseUrl + video + '.xml'
+			try:
+				metaXml = urllib2.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info XML: %s' % unicode(err))
+				return
+			mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metaXml)
+			try:
+				info['title'] = mdoc.findall('./title')[0].text
+				info['url'] = baseUrl + mdoc.findall('./videoFile')[0].text
+			except IndexError:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: Invalid metadata XML file')
+				return
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+			info['ext'] = info['url'].rpartition('.')[2]
+			info['format'] = info['ext']
+			self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+			try:
+				self._downloader.process_info(info)
+			except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+		elif mobj.group('course'): # A course page
+			unescapeHTML = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape
+
+			course = mobj.group('course')
+			info = {
+				'id': _simplify_title(course),
+				'type': 'playlist',
+			}
+
+			self.report_download_webpage(info['id'])
+			try:
+				coursepage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + unicode(err))
+				return
+
+			m = re.search('<h1>([^<]+)</h1>', coursepage)
+			if m:
+				info['title'] = unescapeHTML(m.group(1))
+			else:
+				info['title'] = info['id']
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+
+			m = re.search('<description>([^<]+)</description>', coursepage)
+			if m:
+				info['description'] = unescapeHTML(m.group(1))
+
+			links = _orderedSet(re.findall('<a href="(VideoPage.php\?[^"]+)">', coursepage))
+			info['list'] = [
+				{
+					'type': 'reference',
+					'url': 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/' + unescapeHTML(vpage),
+				}
+					for vpage in links]
+
+			for entry in info['list']:
+				assert entry['type'] == 'reference'
+				self.extract(entry['url'])
+		else: # Root page
+			unescapeHTML = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape
+
+			info = {
+				'id': 'Stanford OpenClassroom',
+				'type': 'playlist',
+			}
+
+			self.report_download_webpage(info['id'])
+			rootURL = 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php'
+			try:
+				rootpage = urllib2.urlopen(rootURL).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + unicode(err))
+				return
+
+			info['title'] = info['id']
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+
+			links = _orderedSet(re.findall('<a href="(CoursePage.php\?[^"]+)">', rootpage))
+			info['list'] = [
+				{
+					'type': 'reference',
+					'url': 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/' + unescapeHTML(cpage),
+				}
+					for cpage in links]
+
+			for entry in info['list']:
+				assert entry['type'] == 'reference'
+				self.extract(entry['url'])
+
+class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for MTV.com"""
+
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?P<proto>https?://)?(?:www\.)?mtv\.com/videos/[^/]+/(?P<videoid>[0-9]+)/[^/]+$'
+	IE_NAME = u'mtv'
+
+	def report_webpage(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	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 not mobj.group('proto'):
+			url = 'http://' + url
+		video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
+		self.report_webpage(video_id)
+
+		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 download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_vt" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract song name')
+			return
+		song_name = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_an" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract performer')
+			return
+		performer = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+		video_title = performer + ' - ' + song_name 
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtvn_uri" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to mtvn_uri')
+			return
+		mtvn_uri = mobj.group(1)
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'MTVN.Player.defaultPlaylistId = ([0-9]+);', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract content id')
+			return
+		content_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+		videogen_url = 'http://www.mtv.com/player/includes/mediaGen.jhtml?uri=' + mtvn_uri + '&id=' + content_id + '&vid=' + video_id + '&ref=www.mtvn.com&viewUri=' + mtvn_uri
+		self.report_extraction(video_id)
+		request = urllib2.Request(videogen_url)
+		try:
+			metadataXml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video metadata: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metadataXml)
+		renditions = mdoc.findall('.//rendition')
+
+		# For now, always pick the highest quality.
+		rendition = renditions[-1]
+
+		try:
+			_,_,ext = rendition.attrib['type'].partition('/')
+			format = ext + '-' + rendition.attrib['width'] + 'x' + rendition.attrib['height'] + '_' + rendition.attrib['bitrate']
+			video_url = rendition.find('./src').text
+		except KeyError:
+			self._downloader.trouble('Invalid rendition field.')
+			return
+
+		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+		info = {
+			'id': video_id,
+			'url': video_url,
+			'uploader': performer,
+			'title': video_title,
+			'stitle': _simplify_title(video_title),
+			'ext': ext,
+			'format': format,
+		}
+
+		try:
+			self._downloader.process_info(info)
+		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_id)
 
 
 class PostProcessor(object):
@@ -3656,6 +4034,9 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
 		"""
 		return information # by default, do nothing
 
+class AudioConversionError(BaseException):
+	def __init__(self, message):
+		self.message = message
 
 class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 
@@ -3670,7 +4051,7 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 	@staticmethod
 	def get_audio_codec(path):
 		try:
-			cmd = ['ffprobe', '-show_streams', '--', path]
+			cmd = ['ffprobe', '-show_streams', '--', _encodeFilename(path)]
 			handle = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 			output = handle.communicate()[0]
 			if handle.wait() != 0:
@@ -3687,12 +4068,23 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 
 	@staticmethod
 	def run_ffmpeg(path, out_path, codec, more_opts):
+		if codec is None:
+			acodec_opts = []
+		else:
+			acodec_opts = ['-acodec', codec]
+		cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', _encodeFilename(path), '-vn'] + acodec_opts + more_opts + ['--', _encodeFilename(out_path)]
 		try:
-			cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', path, '-vn', '-acodec', codec] + more_opts + ['--', out_path]
+			p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-			ret = subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+			stdout,stderr = p.communicate()
-			return (ret == 0)
 		except (IOError, OSError):
-			return False
+			e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+			if isinstance(e, OSError) and e.errno == 2:
+				raise AudioConversionError('ffmpeg not found. Please install ffmpeg.')
+			else:
+				raise e
+		if p.returncode != 0:
+			msg = stderr.strip().split('\n')[-1]
+			raise AudioConversionError(msg)
 
 	def run(self, information):
 		path = information['filepath']
@@ -3703,8 +4095,13 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 			return None
 
 		more_opts = []
-		if self._preferredcodec == 'best' or self._preferredcodec == filecodec:
+		if self._preferredcodec == 'best' or self._preferredcodec == filecodec or (self._preferredcodec == 'm4a' and filecodec == 'aac'):
-			if filecodec in ['aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'm4a' and filecodec == 'aac':
+				# Lossless, but in another container
+				acodec = 'copy'
+				extension = self._preferredcodec
+				more_opts = ['-absf', 'aac_adtstoasc']
+			elif filecodec in ['aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
 				# Lossless if possible
 				acodec = 'copy'
 				extension = filecodec
@@ -3721,35 +4118,44 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 					more_opts += ['-ab', self._preferredquality]
 		else:
 			# We convert the audio (lossy)
-			acodec = {'mp3': 'libmp3lame', 'aac': 'aac', 'vorbis': 'libvorbis'}[self._preferredcodec]
+			acodec = {'mp3': 'libmp3lame', 'aac': 'aac', 'm4a': 'aac', 'vorbis': 'libvorbis', 'wav': None}[self._preferredcodec]
 			extension = self._preferredcodec
 			more_opts = []
 			if self._preferredquality is not None:
 				more_opts += ['-ab', self._preferredquality]
 			if self._preferredcodec == 'aac':
 				more_opts += ['-f', 'adts']
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'm4a':
+				more_opts += ['-absf', 'aac_adtstoasc']
 			if self._preferredcodec == 'vorbis':
 				extension = 'ogg'
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'wav':
+				extension = 'wav'
+				more_opts += ['-f', 'wav']
 
-		(prefix, ext) = os.path.splitext(path)
+		prefix, sep, ext = path.rpartition(u'.') # not os.path.splitext, since the latter does not work on unicode in all setups
-		new_path = prefix + '.' + extension
+		new_path = prefix + sep + extension
-		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Destination: %s' % new_path)
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Destination: ' + new_path)
-		status = self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
+		try:
-
+			self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
-		if not status:
+		except:
-			self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: error running ffmpeg')
+			etype,e,tb = sys.exc_info()
+			if isinstance(e, AudioConversionError):
+				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'ERROR: audio conversion failed: ' + e.message)
+			else:
+				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'ERROR: error running ffmpeg')
 			return None
 
  		# Try to update the date time for extracted audio file.
 		if information.get('filetime') is not None:
 			try:
-				os.utime(new_path, (time.time(), information['filetime']))
+				os.utime(_encodeFilename(new_path), (time.time(), information['filetime']))
 			except:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: Cannot update utime of audio file')
 
 		if not self._keepvideo:
 			try:
-				os.remove(path)
+				os.remove(_encodeFilename(path))
 			except (IOError, OSError):
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: Unable to remove downloaded video file')
 				return None
@@ -3795,6 +4201,20 @@ def parseOpts():
 	# Deferred imports
 	import getpass
 	import optparse
+	import shlex
+
+	def _readOptions(filename_bytes):
+		try:
+			optionf = open(filename_bytes)
+		except IOError:
+			return [] # silently skip if file is not present
+		try:
+			res = []
+			for l in optionf:
+				res += shlex.split(l, comments=True)
+		finally:
+			optionf.close()
+		return res
 
 	def _format_option_string(option):
 		''' ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR'''
@@ -3875,6 +4295,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 			dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
 	selection.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
 	selection.add_option('--reject-title', dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',help='skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
+	selection.add_option('--max-downloads', metavar='NUMBER', dest='max_downloads', help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files', default=None)
 
 	authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
 			dest='username', metavar='USERNAME', help='account username')
@@ -3888,6 +4309,8 @@ def parseOpts():
 			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='all')
+	video_format.add_option('--prefer-free-formats',
+			action='store_true', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False, help='prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested')
 	video_format.add_option('--max-quality',
 			action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT', help='highest quality format to download')
 	video_format.add_option('-F', '--list-formats',
@@ -3931,7 +4354,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 			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. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, and %% for a literal percent')
+			dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout.')
 	filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
 			dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
 	filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites',
@@ -3959,7 +4382,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 	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", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default')
+			help='"best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav"; best by default')
 	postproc.add_option('--audio-quality', metavar='QUALITY', dest='audioquality', default='128K',
 			help='ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default')
 	postproc.add_option('-k', '--keep-video', action='store_true', dest='keepvideo', default=False,
@@ -3974,7 +4397,13 @@ def parseOpts():
 	parser.add_option_group(authentication)
 	parser.add_option_group(postproc)
 
-	opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+	xdg_config_home = os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME')
+	if xdg_config_home:
+		userConf = os.path.join(xdg_config_home, 'youtube-dl.conf')
+	else:
+		userConf = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.config', 'youtube-dl.conf')
+	argv = _readOptions('/etc/youtube-dl.conf') + _readOptions(userConf) + sys.argv[1:]
+	opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv)
 
 	return parser, opts, args
 
@@ -4008,6 +4437,9 @@ def gen_extractors():
 		XVideosIE(),
 		SoundcloudIE(),
 		InfoQIE(),
+		MixcloudIE(),
+		StanfordOpenClassroomIE(),
+		MTVIE(),
 
 		GenericIE()
 	]
@@ -4097,7 +4529,7 @@ def _real_main():
 	except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
 		parser.error(u'invalid playlist end number specified')
 	if opts.extractaudio:
-		if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
+		if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis', 'm4a', 'wav']:
 			parser.error(u'invalid audio format specified')
 
 	# File downloader
@@ -4143,6 +4575,8 @@ def _real_main():
 		'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
 		'matchtitle': opts.matchtitle,
 		'rejecttitle': opts.rejecttitle,
+		'max_downloads': opts.max_downloads,
+		'prefer_free_formats': opts.prefer_free_formats,
 		})
 	for extractor in extractors:
 		fd.add_info_extractor(extractor)
@@ -4161,7 +4595,12 @@ def _real_main():
 			parser.error(u'you must provide at least one URL')
 		else:
 			sys.exit()
+	
+	try:
 		retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
+	except MaxDownloadsReached:
+		fd.to_screen(u'--max-download limit reached, aborting.')
+		retcode = 101
 
 	# Dump cookie jar if requested
 	if opts.cookiefile is not None:

youtube_dl/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__author__  = (
+__authors__  = (
 	'Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez',
 	'Danny Colligan',
 	'Benjamin Johnson',
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ __author__  = (
 	'Sören Schulze',
 	'Kevin Ngo',
 	'Ori Avtalion',
+	'shizeeg',
 	)
 
 __license__ = 'Public Domain'
-__version__ = '2011.11.23'
+__version__ = '2012.01.08'
 
 UPDATE_URL = 'https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl'
 
@@ -258,14 +259,14 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
 				import msvcrt
 				msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
 			return (sys.stdout, filename)
-		stream = open(filename, open_mode)
+		stream = open(_encodeFilename(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)
 
 		# An exception here should be caught in the caller
-		stream = open(filename, open_mode)
+		stream = open(_encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
 		return (stream, filename)
 
 
@@ -281,6 +282,31 @@ def _simplify_title(title):
 	expr = re.compile(ur'[^\w\d_\-]+', flags=re.UNICODE)
 	return expr.sub(u'_', title).strip(u'_')
 
+def _orderedSet(iterable):
+	""" Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
+	res = []
+	for el in iterable:
+		if el not in res:
+			res.append(el)
+	return res
+
+def _unescapeHTML(s):
+	"""
+	@param s a string (of type unicode)
+	"""
+	assert type(s) == type(u'')
+
+	htmlParser = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
+	return htmlParser.unescape(s)
+
+def _encodeFilename(s):
+	"""
+	@param s The name of the file (of type unicode)
+	"""
+
+	assert type(s) == type(u'')
+	return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
+
 class DownloadError(Exception):
 	"""Download Error exception.
 
@@ -308,6 +334,10 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
 	"""
 	pass
 
+class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
+	""" --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
+	pass
+
 
 class UnavailableVideoError(Exception):
 	"""Unavailable Format exception.
@@ -541,16 +571,17 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		self._pps.append(pp)
 		pp.set_downloader(self)
 
-	def to_screen(self, message, skip_eol=False, ignore_encoding_errors=False):
+	def to_screen(self, message, skip_eol=False):
 		"""Print message to stdout if not in quiet mode."""
-		try:
+		assert type(message) == type(u'')
 		if not self.params.get('quiet', False):
 			terminator = [u'\n', u''][skip_eol]
-				print >>self._screen_file, (u'%s%s' % (message, terminator)).encode(preferredencoding()),
+			output = message + terminator
+
+			if 'b' not in self._screen_file.mode or sys.version_info[0] < 3: # Python 2 lies about the mode of sys.stdout/sys.stderr
+				output = output.encode(preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
+			self._screen_file.write(output)
 			self._screen_file.flush()
-		except (UnicodeEncodeError), err:
-			if not ignore_encoding_errors:
-				raise
 
 	def to_stderr(self, message):
 		"""Print message to stderr."""
@@ -600,7 +631,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 	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)):
+				(os.path.exists(_encodeFilename(filename)) and not os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename))):
 			return filename
 		return filename + u'.part'
 
@@ -613,7 +644,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		try:
 			if old_filename == new_filename:
 				return
-			os.rename(old_filename, new_filename)
+			os.rename(_encodeFilename(old_filename), _encodeFilename(new_filename))
 		except (IOError, OSError), err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to rename file')
 
@@ -621,7 +652,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		"""Try to set the last-modified time of the given file."""
 		if last_modified_hdr is None:
 			return
-		if not os.path.isfile(filename):
+		if not os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename)):
 			return
 		timestr = last_modified_hdr
 		if timestr is None:
@@ -637,15 +668,15 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
 	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)
+		self.to_screen(u'[info] Writing video description to: ' + descfn)
 
 	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)
+		self.to_screen(u'[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: ' + infofn)
 
 	def report_destination(self, filename):
 		"""Report destination filename."""
-		self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: %s' % filename, ignore_encoding_errors=True)
+		self.to_screen(u'[download] Destination: ' + filename)
 
 	def report_progress(self, percent_str, data_len_str, speed_str, eta_str):
 		"""Report download progress."""
@@ -698,8 +729,31 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid system charset or erroneous output template')
 			return None
 
+	def _match_entry(self, info_dict):
+		""" Returns None iff the file should be downloaded """
+
+		title = info_dict['title']
+		matchtitle = self.params.get('matchtitle', False)
+		if matchtitle and not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+			return u'[download] "' + title + '" title did not match pattern "' + matchtitle + '"'
+		rejecttitle = self.params.get('rejecttitle', False)
+		if rejecttitle and re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+			return u'"' + title + '" title matched reject pattern "' + rejecttitle + '"'
+		return None
+
 	def process_info(self, info_dict):
 		"""Process a single dictionary returned by an InfoExtractor."""
+
+		reason = self._match_entry(info_dict)
+		if reason is not None:
+			self.to_screen(u'[download] ' + reason)
+			return
+
+		max_downloads = self.params.get('max_downloads')
+		if max_downloads is not None:
+			if self._num_downloads > int(max_downloads):
+				raise MaxDownloadsReached()
+
 		filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict)
 		
 		# Forced printings
@@ -723,23 +777,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		if filename is None:
 			return
 
-		matchtitle=self.params.get('matchtitle',False)
-		rejecttitle=self.params.get('rejecttitle',False)
-		title=info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-		if matchtitle and not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
-			self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title did not match pattern "%s"' % (title, matchtitle))
-			return
-		if rejecttitle and re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
-			self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title matched reject pattern "%s"' % (title, rejecttitle))
-			return
-			
-		if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(filename):
-			self.to_stderr(u'WARNING: file exists and will be skipped')
-			return
-
 		try:
-			dn = os.path.dirname(filename)
+			dn = os.path.dirname(_encodeFilename(filename))
-			if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn):
+			if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn): # dn is already encoded
 				os.makedirs(dn)
 		except (OSError, IOError), err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to create directory ' + unicode(err))
@@ -747,9 +787,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
 		if self.params.get('writedescription', False):
 			try:
-				descfn = filename + '.description'
+				descfn = filename + u'.description'
 				self.report_writedescription(descfn)
-				descfile = open(descfn, 'wb')
+				descfile = open(_encodeFilename(descfn), 'wb')
 				try:
 					descfile.write(info_dict['description'].encode('utf-8'))
 				finally:
@@ -759,7 +799,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				return
 
 		if self.params.get('writeinfojson', False):
-			infofn = filename + '.info.json'
+			infofn = filename + u'.info.json'
 			self.report_writeinfojson(infofn)
 			try:
 				json.dump
@@ -767,7 +807,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				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')
+				infof = open(_encodeFilename(infofn), 'wb')
 				try:
 					json_info_dict = dict((k,v) for k,v in info_dict.iteritems() if not k in ('urlhandle',))
 					json.dump(json_info_dict, infof)
@@ -778,6 +818,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				return
 
 		if not self.params.get('skip_download', False):
+			if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(_encodeFilename(filename)):
+				success = True
+			else:
 				try:
 					success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict)
 				except (OSError, IOError), err:
@@ -848,11 +891,11 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		basic_args = ['rtmpdump', '-q'] + [[], ['-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:
-			prevsize = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+			prevsize = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(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)
+			cursize = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename))
 			if prevsize == cursize and retval == 1:
 				break
 			 # Some rtmp streams seem abort after ~ 99.8%. Don't complain for those
@@ -861,7 +904,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 				retval = 0
 				break
 		if retval == 0:
-			self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(tmpfilename))
+			self.to_screen(u'\r[rtmpdump] %s bytes' % os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename)))
 			self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
 			return True
 		else:
@@ -873,7 +916,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		player_url = info_dict.get('player_url', None)
 
 		# Check file already present
-		if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(filename) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
+		if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(filename)) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
 			self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)
 			return True
 
@@ -890,8 +933,8 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
 
 		# Establish possible resume length
-		if os.path.isfile(tmpfilename):
+		if os.path.isfile(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename)):
-			resume_len = os.path.getsize(tmpfilename)
+			resume_len = os.path.getsize(_encodeFilename(tmpfilename))
 		else:
 			resume_len = 0
 
@@ -1095,6 +1138,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 	_NETRC_MACHINE = 'youtube'
 	# Listed in order of quality
 	_available_formats = ['38', '37', '22', '45', '35', '44', '34', '18', '43', '6', '5', '17', '13']
+	_available_formats_prefer_free = ['38', '37', '45', '22', '44', '35', '43', '34', '18', '6', '5', '17', '13']
 	_video_extensions = {
 		'13': '3gp',
 		'17': 'mp4',
@@ -1344,10 +1388,11 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 			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:
+			available_formats = self._available_formats_prefer_free if self._downloader.params.get('prefer_free_formats', False) else self._available_formats
-				format_list = self._available_formats[self._available_formats.index(format_limit):]
+			if format_limit is not None and format_limit in available_formats:
+				format_list = available_formats[available_formats.index(format_limit):]
 			else:
-				format_list = self._available_formats
+				format_list = 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')
@@ -1573,7 +1618,6 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
 		video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-		simple_title = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
 		video_extension = 'flv'
 
 		# Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
@@ -1603,12 +1647,13 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		video_url = mediaURL
 
-		mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>Dailymotion\s*-\s*(.+)\s*-\s*[^<]+?</title>', webpage)
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta property="og:title" content="(?P<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 = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group('title').decode('utf-8'))
 		video_title = sanitize_title(video_title)
+		simple_title = _simplify_title(video_title)
 
 		mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<span class="owner[^\"]+?">[^<]+?<a [^>]+?>([^<]+?)</a></span>', webpage)
 		if mobj is None:
@@ -3122,7 +3167,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 				return
 			epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
 
-		mMovieParams = re.findall('<param name="movie" value="(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*episode.*?:.*?))"/>', html)
+		mMovieParams = re.findall('(?:<param name="movie" value="|var url = ")(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*episode.*?:.*?))"', html)
 		if len(mMovieParams) == 0:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
 			return
@@ -3608,6 +3653,339 @@ class InfoQIE(InfoExtractor):
 		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_url)
 
+class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for www.mixcloud.com"""
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?mixcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/([\w\d-]+)'
+	IE_NAME = u'mixcloud'
+
+	def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+		InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+
+	def report_download_json(self, file_id):
+		"""Report JSON download."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] Downloading json' % self.IE_NAME)
+
+	def report_extraction(self, file_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
+
+	def get_urls(self, jsonData, fmt, bitrate='best'):
+		"""Get urls from 'audio_formats' section in json"""
+		file_url = None
+		try:
+			bitrate_list = jsonData[fmt]
+			if bitrate is None or bitrate == 'best' or bitrate not in bitrate_list:
+				bitrate = max(bitrate_list) # select highest
+
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt][bitrate]
+		except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info.
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt]
+				
+		return url_list
+
+	def check_urls(self, url_list):
+		"""Returns 1st active url from list"""
+		for url in url_list:
+			try:
+				urllib2.urlopen(url)
+				return url
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				url = None
+
+		return None
+
+	def _print_formats(self, formats):
+		print 'Available formats:'
+		for fmt in formats.keys():
+			for b in formats[fmt]:
+				try:
+					ext = formats[fmt][b][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, b, ext.split('.')[-1])
+				except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info
+					ext = formats[fmt][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, '??', ext.split('.')[-1])
+					break
+
+	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
+		# extract uploader & filename from url
+		uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+		file_id = uploader + "-" + mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
+
+		# construct API request
+		file_url = 'http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/' + '/'.join(url.split('/')[-3:-1]) + '.json'
+		# retrieve .json file with links to files
+		request = urllib2.Request(file_url)
+		try:
+			self.report_download_json(file_url)
+			jsonData = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		# parse JSON
+		json_data = json.loads(jsonData)
+		player_url = json_data['player_swf_url']
+		formats = dict(json_data['audio_formats'])
+
+		req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
+		bitrate = None
+
+		if self._downloader.params.get('listformats', None):
+			self._print_formats(formats)
+			return
+
+		if req_format is None or req_format == 'best':
+			for format_param in formats.keys():
+				url_list = self.get_urls(formats, format_param)
+				# check urls
+				file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+				if file_url is not None:
+					break # got it!
+		else:
+			if req_format not in formats.keys():
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format is not available')
+				return
+
+			url_list = self.get_urls(formats, req_format)
+			file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+			format_param = req_format
+
+		# We have audio
+		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+		try:
+			# Process file information
+			self._downloader.process_info({
+				'id': file_id.decode('utf-8'),
+				'url': file_url.decode('utf-8'),
+				'uploader':	uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+				'upload_date': u'NA',
+				'title': json_data['name'],
+				'stitle': _simplify_title(json_data['name']),
+				'ext': file_url.split('.')[-1].decode('utf-8'),
+				'format': (format_param is None and u'NA' or format_param.decode('utf-8')),
+				'thumbnail': json_data['thumbnail_url'],
+				'description': json_data['description'],
+				'player_url': player_url.decode('utf-8'),
+			})
+		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download file')
+
+class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for Stanford's Open ClassRoom"""
+
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?openclassroom.stanford.edu(?P<path>/?|(/MainFolder/(?:HomePage|CoursePage|VideoPage)\.php([?]course=(?P<course>[^&]+)(&video=(?P<video>[^&]+))?(&.*)?)?))$'
+	IE_NAME = u'stanfordoc'
+
+	def report_download_webpage(self, objid):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, objid))
+
+	def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	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('course') and mobj.group('video'): # A specific video
+			course = mobj.group('course')
+			video = mobj.group('video')
+			info = {
+				'id': _simplify_title(course + '_' + video),
+			}
+	
+			self.report_extraction(info['id'])
+			baseUrl = 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/courses/' + course + '/videos/'
+			xmlUrl = baseUrl + video + '.xml'
+			try:
+				metaXml = urllib2.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info XML: %s' % unicode(err))
+				return
+			mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metaXml)
+			try:
+				info['title'] = mdoc.findall('./title')[0].text
+				info['url'] = baseUrl + mdoc.findall('./videoFile')[0].text
+			except IndexError:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: Invalid metadata XML file')
+				return
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+			info['ext'] = info['url'].rpartition('.')[2]
+			info['format'] = info['ext']
+			self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+			try:
+				self._downloader.process_info(info)
+			except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
+		elif mobj.group('course'): # A course page
+			unescapeHTML = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape
+
+			course = mobj.group('course')
+			info = {
+				'id': _simplify_title(course),
+				'type': 'playlist',
+			}
+
+			self.report_download_webpage(info['id'])
+			try:
+				coursepage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + unicode(err))
+				return
+
+			m = re.search('<h1>([^<]+)</h1>', coursepage)
+			if m:
+				info['title'] = unescapeHTML(m.group(1))
+			else:
+				info['title'] = info['id']
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+
+			m = re.search('<description>([^<]+)</description>', coursepage)
+			if m:
+				info['description'] = unescapeHTML(m.group(1))
+
+			links = _orderedSet(re.findall('<a href="(VideoPage.php\?[^"]+)">', coursepage))
+			info['list'] = [
+				{
+					'type': 'reference',
+					'url': 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/' + unescapeHTML(vpage),
+				}
+					for vpage in links]
+
+			for entry in info['list']:
+				assert entry['type'] == 'reference'
+				self.extract(entry['url'])
+		else: # Root page
+			unescapeHTML = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape
+
+			info = {
+				'id': 'Stanford OpenClassroom',
+				'type': 'playlist',
+			}
+
+			self.report_download_webpage(info['id'])
+			rootURL = 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php'
+			try:
+				rootpage = urllib2.urlopen(rootURL).read()
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + unicode(err))
+				return
+
+			info['title'] = info['id']
+			info['stitle'] = _simplify_title(info['title'])
+
+			links = _orderedSet(re.findall('<a href="(CoursePage.php\?[^"]+)">', rootpage))
+			info['list'] = [
+				{
+					'type': 'reference',
+					'url': 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/' + unescapeHTML(cpage),
+				}
+					for cpage in links]
+
+			for entry in info['list']:
+				assert entry['type'] == 'reference'
+				self.extract(entry['url'])
+
+class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for MTV.com"""
+
+	_VALID_URL = r'^(?P<proto>https?://)?(?:www\.)?mtv\.com/videos/[^/]+/(?P<videoid>[0-9]+)/[^/]+$'
+	IE_NAME = u'mtv'
+
+	def report_webpage(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+		"""Report information extraction."""
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+	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 not mobj.group('proto'):
+			url = 'http://' + url
+		video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
+		self.report_webpage(video_id)
+
+		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 download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_vt" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract song name')
+			return
+		song_name = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_an" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract performer')
+			return
+		performer = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+		video_title = performer + ' - ' + song_name 
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtvn_uri" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to mtvn_uri')
+			return
+		mtvn_uri = mobj.group(1)
+
+		mobj = re.search(r'MTVN.Player.defaultPlaylistId = ([0-9]+);', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract content id')
+			return
+		content_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+		videogen_url = 'http://www.mtv.com/player/includes/mediaGen.jhtml?uri=' + mtvn_uri + '&id=' + content_id + '&vid=' + video_id + '&ref=www.mtvn.com&viewUri=' + mtvn_uri
+		self.report_extraction(video_id)
+		request = urllib2.Request(videogen_url)
+		try:
+			metadataXml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video metadata: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metadataXml)
+		renditions = mdoc.findall('.//rendition')
+
+		# For now, always pick the highest quality.
+		rendition = renditions[-1]
+
+		try:
+			_,_,ext = rendition.attrib['type'].partition('/')
+			format = ext + '-' + rendition.attrib['width'] + 'x' + rendition.attrib['height'] + '_' + rendition.attrib['bitrate']
+			video_url = rendition.find('./src').text
+		except KeyError:
+			self._downloader.trouble('Invalid rendition field.')
+			return
+
+		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+		info = {
+			'id': video_id,
+			'url': video_url,
+			'uploader': performer,
+			'title': video_title,
+			'stitle': _simplify_title(video_title),
+			'ext': ext,
+			'format': format,
+		}
+
+		try:
+			self._downloader.process_info(info)
+		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_id)
 
 
 class PostProcessor(object):
@@ -3656,6 +4034,9 @@ class PostProcessor(object):
 		"""
 		return information # by default, do nothing
 
+class AudioConversionError(BaseException):
+	def __init__(self, message):
+		self.message = message
 
 class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 
@@ -3670,7 +4051,7 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 	@staticmethod
 	def get_audio_codec(path):
 		try:
-			cmd = ['ffprobe', '-show_streams', '--', path]
+			cmd = ['ffprobe', '-show_streams', '--', _encodeFilename(path)]
 			handle = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stderr=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 			output = handle.communicate()[0]
 			if handle.wait() != 0:
@@ -3687,12 +4068,23 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 
 	@staticmethod
 	def run_ffmpeg(path, out_path, codec, more_opts):
+		if codec is None:
+			acodec_opts = []
+		else:
+			acodec_opts = ['-acodec', codec]
+		cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', _encodeFilename(path), '-vn'] + acodec_opts + more_opts + ['--', _encodeFilename(out_path)]
 		try:
-			cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', path, '-vn', '-acodec', codec] + more_opts + ['--', out_path]
+			p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-			ret = subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=file(os.path.devnull, 'w'), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+			stdout,stderr = p.communicate()
-			return (ret == 0)
 		except (IOError, OSError):
-			return False
+			e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+			if isinstance(e, OSError) and e.errno == 2:
+				raise AudioConversionError('ffmpeg not found. Please install ffmpeg.')
+			else:
+				raise e
+		if p.returncode != 0:
+			msg = stderr.strip().split('\n')[-1]
+			raise AudioConversionError(msg)
 
 	def run(self, information):
 		path = information['filepath']
@@ -3703,8 +4095,13 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 			return None
 
 		more_opts = []
-		if self._preferredcodec == 'best' or self._preferredcodec == filecodec:
+		if self._preferredcodec == 'best' or self._preferredcodec == filecodec or (self._preferredcodec == 'm4a' and filecodec == 'aac'):
-			if filecodec in ['aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'm4a' and filecodec == 'aac':
+				# Lossless, but in another container
+				acodec = 'copy'
+				extension = self._preferredcodec
+				more_opts = ['-absf', 'aac_adtstoasc']
+			elif filecodec in ['aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
 				# Lossless if possible
 				acodec = 'copy'
 				extension = filecodec
@@ -3721,35 +4118,44 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(PostProcessor):
 					more_opts += ['-ab', self._preferredquality]
 		else:
 			# We convert the audio (lossy)
-			acodec = {'mp3': 'libmp3lame', 'aac': 'aac', 'vorbis': 'libvorbis'}[self._preferredcodec]
+			acodec = {'mp3': 'libmp3lame', 'aac': 'aac', 'm4a': 'aac', 'vorbis': 'libvorbis', 'wav': None}[self._preferredcodec]
 			extension = self._preferredcodec
 			more_opts = []
 			if self._preferredquality is not None:
 				more_opts += ['-ab', self._preferredquality]
 			if self._preferredcodec == 'aac':
 				more_opts += ['-f', 'adts']
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'm4a':
+				more_opts += ['-absf', 'aac_adtstoasc']
 			if self._preferredcodec == 'vorbis':
 				extension = 'ogg'
+			if self._preferredcodec == 'wav':
+				extension = 'wav'
+				more_opts += ['-f', 'wav']
 
-		(prefix, ext) = os.path.splitext(path)
+		prefix, sep, ext = path.rpartition(u'.') # not os.path.splitext, since the latter does not work on unicode in all setups
-		new_path = prefix + '.' + extension
+		new_path = prefix + sep + extension
-		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Destination: %s' % new_path)
+		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[ffmpeg] Destination: ' + new_path)
-		status = self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
+		try:
-
+			self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
-		if not status:
+		except:
-			self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: error running ffmpeg')
+			etype,e,tb = sys.exc_info()
+			if isinstance(e, AudioConversionError):
+				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'ERROR: audio conversion failed: ' + e.message)
+			else:
+				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'ERROR: error running ffmpeg')
 			return None
 
  		# Try to update the date time for extracted audio file.
 		if information.get('filetime') is not None:
 			try:
-				os.utime(new_path, (time.time(), information['filetime']))
+				os.utime(_encodeFilename(new_path), (time.time(), information['filetime']))
 			except:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: Cannot update utime of audio file')
 
 		if not self._keepvideo:
 			try:
-				os.remove(path)
+				os.remove(_encodeFilename(path))
 			except (IOError, OSError):
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: Unable to remove downloaded video file')
 				return None
@@ -3795,6 +4201,20 @@ def parseOpts():
 	# Deferred imports
 	import getpass
 	import optparse
+	import shlex
+
+	def _readOptions(filename_bytes):
+		try:
+			optionf = open(filename_bytes)
+		except IOError:
+			return [] # silently skip if file is not present
+		try:
+			res = []
+			for l in optionf:
+				res += shlex.split(l, comments=True)
+		finally:
+			optionf.close()
+		return res
 
 	def _format_option_string(option):
 		''' ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR'''
@@ -3875,6 +4295,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 			dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
 	selection.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
 	selection.add_option('--reject-title', dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',help='skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
+	selection.add_option('--max-downloads', metavar='NUMBER', dest='max_downloads', help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files', default=None)
 
 	authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
 			dest='username', metavar='USERNAME', help='account username')
@@ -3888,6 +4309,8 @@ def parseOpts():
 			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='all')
+	video_format.add_option('--prefer-free-formats',
+			action='store_true', dest='prefer_free_formats', default=False, help='prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested')
 	video_format.add_option('--max-quality',
 			action='store', dest='format_limit', metavar='FORMAT', help='highest quality format to download')
 	video_format.add_option('-F', '--list-formats',
@@ -3931,7 +4354,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 			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. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, and %% for a literal percent')
+			dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout.')
 	filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
 			dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
 	filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites',
@@ -3959,7 +4382,7 @@ def parseOpts():
 	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", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default')
+			help='"best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", or "wav"; best by default')
 	postproc.add_option('--audio-quality', metavar='QUALITY', dest='audioquality', default='128K',
 			help='ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default')
 	postproc.add_option('-k', '--keep-video', action='store_true', dest='keepvideo', default=False,
@@ -3974,7 +4397,13 @@ def parseOpts():
 	parser.add_option_group(authentication)
 	parser.add_option_group(postproc)
 
-	opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+	xdg_config_home = os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME')
+	if xdg_config_home:
+		userConf = os.path.join(xdg_config_home, 'youtube-dl.conf')
+	else:
+		userConf = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.config', 'youtube-dl.conf')
+	argv = _readOptions('/etc/youtube-dl.conf') + _readOptions(userConf) + sys.argv[1:]
+	opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv)
 
 	return parser, opts, args
 
@@ -4008,6 +4437,9 @@ def gen_extractors():
 		XVideosIE(),
 		SoundcloudIE(),
 		InfoQIE(),
+		MixcloudIE(),
+		StanfordOpenClassroomIE(),
+		MTVIE(),
 
 		GenericIE()
 	]
@@ -4097,7 +4529,7 @@ def _real_main():
 	except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
 		parser.error(u'invalid playlist end number specified')
 	if opts.extractaudio:
-		if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis']:
+		if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis', 'm4a', 'wav']:
 			parser.error(u'invalid audio format specified')
 
 	# File downloader
@@ -4143,6 +4575,8 @@ def _real_main():
 		'writeinfojson': opts.writeinfojson,
 		'matchtitle': opts.matchtitle,
 		'rejecttitle': opts.rejecttitle,
+		'max_downloads': opts.max_downloads,
+		'prefer_free_formats': opts.prefer_free_formats,
 		})
 	for extractor in extractors:
 		fd.add_info_extractor(extractor)
@@ -4161,7 +4595,12 @@ def _real_main():
 			parser.error(u'you must provide at least one URL')
 		else:
 			sys.exit()
+	
+	try:
 		retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
+	except MaxDownloadsReached:
+		fd.to_screen(u'--max-download limit reached, aborting.')
+		retcode = 101
 
 	# Dump cookie jar if requested
 	if opts.cookiefile is not None: