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 |
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| 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 -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 Google Fuchsia - 2021