diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index dbb505f19..5688fd119
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		# Download using rtmpdump. rtmpdump returns exit code 2 when
 		# the connection was interrumpted and resuming appears to be
 		# possible. This is part of rtmpdump's normal usage, AFAIK.
-		basic_args = ['rtmpdump', '-q'] + [[], ['-W', player_url]][player_url is not None] + ['-r', url, '-o', filename]
+		basic_args = ['rtmpdump'] + [[], ['-q']][self.params.get('quiet', False)] + [[], ['-W', player_url]][player_url is not None] + ['-r', url, '-o', filename]
 		retval = subprocess.call(basic_args + [[], ['-e', '-k', '1']][self.params.get('continuedl', False)])
 		while retval == 2 or retval == 1:
 			prevsize = os.path.getsize(filename)
@@ -839,9 +839,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 			return
 
 		# Attempt to extract SWF player URL
-		mobj = re.search(r'swfConfig.*"(http://.*?watch.*?-.*?\.swf)"', video_webpage)
+		mobj = re.search(r'swfConfig.*?"(http:\\/\\/.*?watch.*?-.*?\.swf)"', video_webpage)
 		if mobj is not None:
-			player_url = mobj.group(1)
+			player_url = re.sub(r'\\(.)', r'\1', mobj.group(1))
 		else:
 			player_url = None
 
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		# Check if video comes from YouTube
 		mobj2 = re.match(r'^yt-(.*)$', video_id)
 		if mobj2 is not None:
-			self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % mobj2.group(1))
+			self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&has_verified=1' % mobj2.group(1))
 			return
 
 		# At this point we have a new video