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When running the youtube plugin I receive the following error:

Quote:20:38:23 T:140411188279040 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>
Error Contents: Non-ASCII character '\xdb' in file /storage/.xbmc/addons/script.module.simplejson/lib/simplejson/__init__.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (__init__.py, line 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.youtube/default.py", line 91, in <module>
import YouTubeCore
File "/storage/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.youtube/YouTubeCore.py", line 27, in <module>
import simplejson as json
File "/storage/.xbmc/addons/script.module.simplejson/lib/simplejson/__init__.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xdb' in file /storage/.xbmc/addons/script.module.simplejson/lib/simplejson/__init__.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
-->End of Python script error report<--
20:38:23 T:140413000865600 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.youtube/
20:38:23 T:140413000865600 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.youtube/) failed
20:38:23 T:140411188279040 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false

I'm running version 4.4.8 installed from the xvmc repo and this is currently running on openelec. Any clues on cause?

Thanks guys Smile
It doesn't work with the skin I'm using for some reason... Is this a known issue? Is it resolvable?