diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ca021125..9dffd99ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,15 +46,16 @@ ## Filesystem Options:
     -A, --auto-number        number downloaded files starting from 00000
     -o, --output TEMPLATE    output filename template. Use %(title)s to get the
                              title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name,
-                             %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented
-                             number, %(ext)s for the filename extension,
-                             %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD),
-                             %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe,
-                             etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal
-                             percent. Use - to output to stdout. Can also be
-                             used to download to a different directory, for
-                             example with -o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title
-                             )s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
+                             %(uploader_id)s for the uploader nickname if
+                             different, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically
+                             incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename
+                             extension, %(upload_date)s for the upload date
+                             (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
+                             (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id
+                             and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to
+                             stdout. Can also be used to download to a different
+                             directory, for example with -o '/my/downloads/%(upl
+                             oader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
     --restrict-filenames     Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and
                              avoid "&" and spaces in filenames
     -a, --batch-file FILE    file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
diff --git a/test/test_download.py b/test/test_download.py
index bce0e4fcd..1ee1b334d 100644
--- a/test/test_download.py
+++ b/test/test_download.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import json
 import unittest
 import sys
+import hashlib
 import socket
 
 # Allow direct execution
@@ -24,12 +25,15 @@
 proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
 opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
 compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
-socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
 
 class FileDownloader(youtube_dl.FileDownloader):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        youtube_dl.FileDownloader.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
         self.to_stderr = self.to_screen
+        self.processed_info_dicts = []
+        return youtube_dl.FileDownloader.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+    def process_info(self, info_dict):
+        self.processed_info_dicts.append(info_dict)
+        return youtube_dl.FileDownloader.process_info(self, info_dict)
 
 def _file_md5(fn):
     with open(fn, 'rb') as f:
@@ -40,6 +44,7 @@ def _file_md5(fn):
 with io.open(PARAMETERS_FILE, encoding='utf-8') as pf:
     parameters = json.load(pf)
 
+
 class TestDownload(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.parameters = parameters
@@ -68,18 +73,28 @@ def test_template(self):
         if 'skip' in test_case:
             print('Skipping: {0}'.format(test_case['skip']))
             return
+
         params = dict(self.parameters) # Duplicate it locally
         for p in test_case.get('params', {}):
             params[p] = test_case['params'][p]
+
         fd = FileDownloader(params)
         fd.add_info_extractor(ie())
         for ien in test_case.get('add_ie', []):
             fd.add_info_extractor(getattr(youtube_dl.InfoExtractors, ien + 'IE')())
         fd.download([test_case['url']])
+
         self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(test_case['file']))
         if 'md5' in test_case:
             md5_for_file = _file_md5(test_case['file'])
             self.assertEqual(md5_for_file, test_case['md5'])
+        info_dict = fd.processed_info_dicts[0]
+        for (info_field, value) in test_case.get('info_dict', {}).items():
+            if value.startswith('md5:'):
+                md5_info_value = hashlib.md5(info_dict.get(info_field, '')).hexdigest()
+                self.assertEqual(value[3:], md5_info_value)
+            else:
+                self.assertEqual(value, info_dict.get(info_field))
 
     return test_template
 
diff --git a/test/test_write_info_json.py b/test/test_write_info_json.py
index ebf543980..8134dda37 100644
--- a/test/test_write_info_json.py
+++ b/test/test_write_info_json.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 import json
 import os
-import socket
 import sys
 import unittest
 
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@
 proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
 opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
 compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
-socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
 
 class FileDownloader(youtube_dl.FileDownloader):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/test/test_youtube_lists.py b/test/test_youtube_lists.py
index e352e5ab9..3044e0852 100644
--- a/test/test_youtube_lists.py
+++ b/test/test_youtube_lists.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import sys
 import unittest
-import socket
 import json
 
 # Allow direct execution
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@
 proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
 opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
 compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
-socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
 
 class FakeDownloader(object):
     def __init__(self):
diff --git a/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py b/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py
index 64a391d14..5d3566a35 100644
--- a/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py
+++ b/test/test_youtube_subtitles.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import sys
 import unittest
-import socket
 import json
 import io
 import hashlib
@@ -24,7 +23,6 @@
 proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
 opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
 compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
-socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)
 
 class FakeDownloader(object):
     def __init__(self):
diff --git a/test/tests.json b/test/tests.json
index 9bf56082e..dbff62676 100644
--- a/test/tests.json
+++ b/test/tests.json
@@ -2,7 +2,14 @@
   {
     "name": "Youtube",
     "url":  "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc",
-    "file":  "BaW_jenozKc.mp4"
+    "file":  "BaW_jenozKc.mp4",
+    "info_dict": {
+      "title": "youtube-dl test video \"'/\\ä↭𝕐",
+      "uploader": "Philipp Hagemeister",
+      "uploader_id": "phihag",
+      "upload_date": "20121002",
+      "description": "test chars:  \"'/\\ä↭𝕐\n\nThis is a test video for youtube-dl.\n\nFor more information, contact phihag@phihag.de ."
+    }
   },
   {
     "name": "Dailymotion",
@@ -30,9 +37,16 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "Vimeo",
-    "md5":  "60540a4ec7cc378ec84b919c0aed5023",
-    "url":  "http://vimeo.com/14160053",
-    "file": "14160053.mp4"
+    "md5":  "8879b6cc097e987f02484baf890129e5",
+    "url":  "http://vimeo.com/56015672",
+    "file": "56015672.mp4",
+    "info_dict": {
+      "title": "youtube-dl test video - ★ \" ' 幸 / \\ ä ↭ 𝕐",
+      "uploader": "Filippo Valsorda",
+      "uploader_id": "user7108434",
+      "upload_date": "20121220",
+      "description": "This is a test case for youtube-dl.\nFor more information, see github.com/rg3/youtube-dl\nTest chars: ★ \" ' 幸 / \\ ä ↭ 𝕐"
+    }
   },
   {
     "name": "Soundcloud",
@@ -81,7 +95,8 @@
     "name": "Escapist",
     "url": "http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-escapist-presents/6618-Breaking-Down-Baldurs-Gate",
     "file": "6618-Breaking-Down-Baldurs-Gate.flv",
-    "md5": "c6793dbda81388f4264c1ba18684a74d"
+    "md5": "c6793dbda81388f4264c1ba18684a74d",
+    "skip": "Fails with timeout on Travis"
   },
   {
     "name": "GooglePlus",
diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index a861086c3..d9a4ecd3a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -433,11 +433,8 @@ def process_info(self, info_dict):
             try:
                 srtfn = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + u'.srt'
                 self.report_writesubtitles(srtfn)
-                srtfile = open(encodeFilename(srtfn), 'wb')
-                try:
-                    srtfile.write(info_dict['subtitles'].encode('utf-8'))
-                finally:
-                    srtfile.close()
+                with io.open(encodeFilename(srtfn), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as srtfile:
+                    srtfile.write(info_dict['subtitles'])
             except (OSError, IOError):
                 self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write subtitles file ' + descfn)
                 return
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index d94ebde34..697c031c5 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     id:             Video identifier.
     url:            Final video URL.
-    uploader:       Nickname of the video uploader, unescaped.
+    uploader:       Full name of the video uploader, unescaped.
     upload_date:    Video upload date (YYYYMMDD).
     title:          Video title, unescaped.
     ext:            Video filename extension.
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     format:         The video format, defaults to ext (used for --get-format)
     thumbnail:      Full URL to a video thumbnail image.
     description:    One-line video description.
+    uploader_id:    Nickname or id of the video uploader.
     player_url:     SWF Player URL (used for rtmpdump).
     subtitles:      The .srt file contents.
     urlhandle:      [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file,
@@ -219,6 +220,34 @@ def _closed_captions_xml_to_srt(self, xml_string):
             srt += caption + '\n\n'
         return srt
 
+    def _extract_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        self.report_video_subtitles_download(video_id)
+        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id)
+        try:
+            srt_list = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
+        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            return (u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err), None)
+        srt_lang_list = re.findall(r'name="([^"]*)"[^>]+lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', srt_list)
+        srt_lang_list = dict((l[1], l[0]) for l in srt_lang_list)
+        if not srt_lang_list:
+            return (u'WARNING: video has no closed captions', None)
+        if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang', False):
+            srt_lang = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang')
+        elif 'en' in srt_lang_list:
+            srt_lang = 'en'
+        else:
+            srt_lang = list(srt_lang_list.keys())[0]
+        if not srt_lang in srt_lang_list:
+            return (u'WARNING: no closed captions found in the specified language', None)
+        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=%s&name=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, srt_lang_list[srt_lang], video_id))
+        try:
+            srt_xml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
+        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            return (u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err), None)
+        if not srt_xml:
+            return (u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles', None)
+        return (None, self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml))
+
     def _print_formats(self, formats):
         print('Available formats:')
         for x in formats:
@@ -356,10 +385,18 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 
         # uploader
         if 'author' not in video_info:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader nickname')
+            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract uploader name')
             return
         video_uploader = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['author'][0])
 
+        # uploader_id
+        video_uploader_id = None
+        mobj = re.search(r'<link itemprop="url" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/([^"]+)">', video_webpage)
+        if mobj is not None:
+            video_uploader_id = mobj.group(1)
+        else:
+            self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname')
+
         # title
         if 'title' not in video_info:
             self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract video title')
@@ -395,35 +432,9 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         # closed captions
         video_subtitles = None
         if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False):
-            try:
-                self.report_video_subtitles_download(video_id)
-                request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id)
-                try:
-                    srt_list = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-                except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                    raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                srt_lang_list = re.findall(r'name="([^"]*)"[^>]+lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', srt_list)
-                srt_lang_list = dict((l[1], l[0]) for l in srt_lang_list)
-                if not srt_lang_list:
-                    raise Trouble(u'WARNING: video has no closed captions')
-                if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang', False):
-                    srt_lang = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang')
-                elif 'en' in srt_lang_list:
-                    srt_lang = 'en'
-                else:
-                    srt_lang = srt_lang_list.keys()[0]
-                if not srt_lang in srt_lang_list:
-                    raise Trouble(u'WARNING: no closed captions found in the specified language')
-                request = compat_urllib_request.Request('http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=%s&name=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, srt_lang_list[srt_lang], video_id))
-                try:
-                    srt_xml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-                except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                    raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                if not srt_xml:
-                    raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles')
-                video_subtitles = self._closed_captions_xml_to_srt(srt_xml)
-            except Trouble as trouble:
-                self._downloader.trouble(str(trouble))
+            (srt_error, video_subtitles) = self._extract_subtitles(video_id)
+            if srt_error:
+                self._downloader.trouble(srt_error)
 
         if 'length_seconds' not in video_info:
             self._downloader.trouble(u'WARNING: unable to extract video duration')
@@ -443,7 +454,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         elif 'url_encoded_fmt_stream_map' in video_info and len(video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map']) >= 1:
             url_data_strs = video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map'][0].split(',')
             url_data = [compat_parse_qs(uds) for uds in url_data_strs]
-            url_data = filter(lambda ud: 'itag' in ud and 'url' in ud, url_data)
+            url_data = [ud for ud in url_data if 'itag' in ud and 'url' in ud]
             url_map = dict((ud['itag'][0], ud['url'][0] + '&signature=' + ud['sig'][0]) for ud in url_data)
 
             format_limit = self._downloader.params.get('format_limit', None)
@@ -493,6 +504,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
                 'id':       video_id,
                 'url':      video_real_url,
                 'uploader': video_uploader,
+                'uploader_id': video_uploader_id,
                 'upload_date':  upload_date,
                 'title':    video_title,
                 'ext':      video_extension,
@@ -992,8 +1004,9 @@ def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
         # Extract title
         video_title = config["video"]["title"]
 
-        # Extract uploader
+        # Extract uploader and uploader_id
         video_uploader = config["video"]["owner"]["name"]
+        video_uploader_id = config["video"]["owner"]["url"].split('/')[-1]
 
         # Extract video thumbnail
         video_thumbnail = config["video"]["thumbnail"]
@@ -1005,9 +1018,9 @@ def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
 
         # Extract upload date
         video_upload_date = None
-        mobj = re.search(r'<span id="clip-date" style="display:none">[^:]*: (.*?)( \([^\(]*\))?</span>', webpage)
+        mobj = re.search(r'<meta itemprop="dateCreated" content="(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T', webpage)
         if mobj is not None:
-            video_upload_date = mobj.group(1)
+            video_upload_date = mobj.group(1) + mobj.group(2) + mobj.group(3)
 
         # Vimeo specific: extract request signature and timestamp
         sig = config['request']['signature']
@@ -1045,6 +1058,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
             'id':       video_id,
             'url':      video_url,
             'uploader': video_uploader,
+            'uploader_id': video_uploader_id,
             'upload_date':  video_upload_date,
             'title':    video_title,
             'ext':      video_extension,
@@ -2113,7 +2127,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         video_description = video_info.get('description', 'No description available.')
 
         url_map = video_info['video_urls']
-        if len(url_map.keys()) > 0:
+        if len(list(url_map.keys())) > 0:
             # Decide which formats to download
             req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
             format_limit = self._downloader.params.get('format_limit', None)
@@ -2973,7 +2987,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
                 if file_url is not None:
                     break # got it!
         else:
-            if req_format not in formats.keys():
+            if req_format not in list(formats.keys()):
                 self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format is not available')
                 return
 
@@ -3272,7 +3286,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
             seed = config['data'][0]['seed']
 
             format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
-            supported_format = config['data'][0]['streamfileids'].keys()
+            supported_format = list(config['data'][0]['streamfileids'].keys())
 
             if format is None or format == 'best':
                 if 'hd2' in supported_format:
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index f94e0dcdb..c7a0bb959 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ def _find_term_columns():
             action='store_true', dest='autonumber',
             help='number downloaded files starting from 00000', default=False)
     filesystem.add_option('-o', '--output',
-            dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(title)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout. Can also be used to download to a different directory, for example with -o \'/my/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s\' .')
+            dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE', help='output filename template. Use %(title)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the uploader nickname if different, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider (youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the video id and %% for a literal percent. Use - to output to stdout. Can also be used to download to a different directory, for example with -o \'/my/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s\' .')
     filesystem.add_option('--restrict-filenames',
             action='store_true', dest='restrictfilenames',
             help='Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames', default=False)
@@ -454,8 +454,8 @@ def _real_main():
     if opts.list_extractors:
         for ie in extractors:
             print(ie.IE_NAME + (' (CURRENTLY BROKEN)' if not ie._WORKING else ''))
-            matchedUrls = filter(lambda url: ie.suitable(url), all_urls)
-            all_urls = filter(lambda url: url not in matchedUrls, all_urls)
+            matchedUrls = [url for url in all_urls if ie.suitable(url)]
+            all_urls = [url for url in all_urls if url not in matchedUrls]
             for mu in matchedUrls:
                 print(u'  ' + mu)
         sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a5196b0ae..463804e18 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ def clean_html(html):
     """Clean an HTML snippet into a readable string"""
     # Newline vs <br />
     html = html.replace('\n', ' ')
-    html = re.sub('\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'<\s*/\s*p\s*>\s*<\s*p[^>]*>', '\n', html)
     # Strip html tags
     html = re.sub('<.*?>', '', html)
     # Replace html entities
@@ -465,14 +466,6 @@ def __init__(self, downloaded, expected):
         self.downloaded = downloaded
         self.expected = expected
 
-
-class Trouble(Exception):
-    """Trouble helper exception
-
-    This is an exception to be handled with
-    FileDownloader.trouble
-    """
-
 class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.