How do I use a proxy server?

[KirbyFan102]

Please follow the guide below

• You will be asked some questions and requested to provide some information, please read them carefully and answer honestly
• Put an x into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your issue (like that [x])
• Use Preview tab to see how your issue will actually look like

WARNING

All invalid issues will be rejected!!

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• [ ] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
• [X] I've verified and i assure that I'm running youtube-dl-gui 0.4
• [X] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
• [X] Searched bugtracker
• [X] I've read the FAQs file

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What is the purpose of your issue?

• [ ] Bug report
• [ ] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• [X] Question
• [ ] Other

Please remove any sections between (---) if they are not related to your issue

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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
2. Go to Options > Extra tab
3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
5. Try to download the URL
6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below

youtube_dl_gui\downloaders.py:59: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 10

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I am trying to use a proxy server to download a region-locked video. However, all attemps to download not only that video, but all youtube videos fail, and I suspect it's because I'm not doing something right. How am I supposed to add a proxy server, exactly?

[fabaoin]

option-advanced-proxy

socks5://127.0.0.1:1080