2 description: Report a bug unrelated to any particular site or extractor
10 Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
12 - label: I'm reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
14 - label: I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version **2022.05.18** ([update instructions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#update)) or later (specify commit)
16 - label: I've checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
18 - label: I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are [properly quoted or escaped](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an-ampersand-and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command)
20 - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
22 - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
29 Provide an explanation of your issue in an arbitrary form.
30 Please make sure the description is worded well enough to be understood, see [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient).
31 Provide any additional information, any suggested solutions, and as much context and examples as possible
32 placeholder: WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE
40 Provide the complete verbose output of yt-dlp **that clearly demonstrates the problem**.
41 Add the `-vU` flag to **your** command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`), copy the WHOLE output and insert it below.
42 It should look similar to this:
44 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
45 [debug] Portable config file: yt-dlp.conf
46 [debug] Portable config: ['-i']
47 [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, stdout utf-8, stderr utf-8, pref cp1252
48 [debug] yt-dlp version 2022.05.18 (exe)
49 [debug] Python version 3.8.8 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
50 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1
51 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, keyring, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
53 yt-dlp is up to date (2022.05.18)