Description of problem:
I tried to download a video, it failed the first time and prompted me to run 'youtube-dl -U' to get the lastest version.

I did so as root and repeated the command. Then it failed and ABRT caught the error.

Version-Release number of selected component:
youtube-dl-2014.07.20.2-1.fc20

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.3
cmdline:        python /usr/bin/youtube-dl -f mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQx_2bQniZI
dso_list:       python-libs-2.7.5-13.fc20.x86_64
executable:     /usr/bin/youtube-dl
kernel:         3.15.6-200.fc20.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           Python
uid:            1000

Truncated backtrace:
utils.py:1013:write_string:IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 859, in main
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 849, in _real_main
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1052, in download
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 527, in extract_info
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 564, in process_ie_result
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in process_video_result
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1024, in process_info
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 405, in report_error
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 358, in trouble
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 312, in to_stderr
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 291, in _write_string
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1013, in write_string
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Local variables in innermost frame:
byt: 'ERROR: unable to download video data: The read operation timed out\n'
out: <open file '<stderr>', mode 'w' at 0x7fbc8c3cd1e0>
s: u'ERROR: unable to download video data: The read operation timed out\n'
encoding: None