[slowpoke115]

When running the youtube plugin I receive the following error:

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

[hydraSlav]

Use the new one:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=200735

[slowpoke115]

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