Re: yt-dlp fork for Windows 7 and XP

Shadow <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:13:15 -0300
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-xp
Organization A noiseless patient Shadow
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

	As JJ pointed out, that's not the XP version (and there are
two XP versions. one zipped, the other not)
	[]'s
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