Re: yt-dlp fork for Windows 7 and XP

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:15:23 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John 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)

OK here in Asia too.

Thanks for the X-post. Forgot to include XP. Sorry.