Re: yt-dlp fork for Windows 7 and XP

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:31:21 -0300
Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:54:20 +0700, JJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >yt-dlp fork with in-between releases and a custom Windows XP build. Also
> >Python 3.14 builds for Windows 7.
> >
> >yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support
> >for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now
> >inactive youtube-dlc.
> >
> >Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video
> >sites.
> >
> >https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp
> >
> >FYI, make sure to get the file whose name ends with "_win7" or "_winXP". The
> >ones without any, are for Windows 8+ only.
> 
> 	Weird, I get a 406 under both XP and Linux. Github has been
> practically inaccessible for a while.
> 	Same for Sourceforge, was blocked by Cloudfare for months (as
> was Majorgeeks) but they work again now.
> 
> 	When I use a Russian proxy I can both see and download the
> files.
> 
> yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe
> 
> MD5: 189736a4f3c193b7213e3c8682adb81d
> SHA-1: 2334880888c9c40d166e6ce638b49d218477d25e
> SHA-256:
> c34a7aa1d756992632a86ca8f0cc2e193b99688bf6820c06a32168ddda3645d2
> 
> 	Does that look about right? Github has an issue with Brazil.
> Maybe because Lula refused to join the "Board of Piece"?
> 	[]'s

OK here in the UK. 
(xpost changed to acow-xp from acow-w7)

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