Re: yt-dlp fork for Windows 7 and XP

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:04:22 +0000
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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 :: Generating Hash for File 'yt-dlp_x86.exe'
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 Hash Type         Hash Length      Hash Value
 ========================================================================================================================

 CRC32             4                6c1f2ceb

 ADLER32           4                296db27c

 RIPEMD160         20
06f43f241923d644c97b7fa8c9a1d79fabacfbd2

 MD2               16               b04f6adf86086a7c04192f4e20c33436

 MD4               16               0ce67f8e61ea5bdc14d5b02ad0df0b4f

 MD5               16               8253e2ca98fd2fce9a7fe4be985bd9e6

 SHA1              20
9fdd8e645852e929db344f265c64f94ac40581d1

 SHA256            32
f231a7d1b97f0165adb21458719eab0f3c049a2f903b23b938700d0deff892b5

 SHA384            48
962671cc64490e1d2663c5bb069943761f49b44b40cdb1253d0dec8f50ee8c745ad77a146d087260665ba2b40e2e05fd

 SHA512            64
4d6053832bf9231cb5d52a7f705a32b886773ee20b4efd8b450f210ed6779a7edab5986aab9ce0489bae22395177f335e413066bbc12266275c04d6cbf4dd85e

 HAVAL256-4        32
e5f3780d648e0628f289376147298433428e2d60b4c0eebbc46475306a03dd0e

 WHIRLPOOL         64
8c5c08a7b64f4a6b8a38b00c20440c89904aafa4f1feed97d29e974f3a82c8b7b129f21901be368a5c969e5a9f4365676f4c6ccd4b47409351cfd2e1ab82d8bd


This is the (lastest?) 8 Dec 2025 version

But running it I get Entry Point Not Found (CreateSymbolicLinkW in
KERNEL32.dll)
-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.