diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index dbb505f198..6a888cc3f5
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		# Get video webpage
 		self.report_video_webpage_download(video_id)
-		request = urllib2.Request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en' % video_id, None, std_headers)
+		request = urllib2.Request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1' % video_id, None, std_headers)
 		try:
 			video_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
 		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
@@ -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