Re: yt-dlp fork for Windows 7 and XP

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:31:12 -0300
Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:15:23 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >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)
> 
> 	TY
> 	Do the checksums match? Always bothers me when I have to use a
> "man-in-the-middle".
> 	[]'s

No!
Md5sum gives me 
8253e2ca98fd2fce9a7fe4be985bd9e6 *yt-dlp_x86.exe

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