nicolaasjan

That is not possible most of the time (I have tried and failed)... yt-dlp works significantly different now (uses newer Python syntax for example). But you could always suggest a change in youtube-dl's issue tracker. Then @dirkf can take a look at it and see if it could work.

For yt-dlp, I use no UA parameter and everything works. For youtube-dl, I use: --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:128.0) Gecko/128.0 Firefox/128.0" But it doesn't seem to work any more... Relevant issue: #32905.

Until now, with yt-dlp I can still download non age-gated videos without passing cookies. Today, I tried with my build of youtube-dl and got the 403 error even when passing fresh cookies...

I've updated youtube-dl, applying the pending fix for YouTube. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/32987. You may have to pass cookies (from logged in account) and the following user agent: --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:128.0) Gecko/128.0 Firefox/128.0" --cookies "C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\youtube-dl\cookies.txt"

And here is a pdf with all the links to his latest apps done for XP.

$removeparam filters don't work in uBO Legacy...

On my XP VM I use a version from the My Digital Life Forums made by @Maroc. Works very well. Links are visible only when logged in. https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/some-of-my-latest-apps-done-for-xp.87973/ MPC-HC 2.2.1 (based on Release 2.2.1) Unfortunately he stopped making new versions of his programs. No idea if it is SSE compatible.

I use: ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4][vcodec^=avc]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" Only mp4 with avc codec plays hardware accelerated on my old PC... Pass hwdec=auto to MPV. Is your MPV player (or other player) up to date?

Yes, you can put that line in your youtube-dl config file. E.g.: C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\youtube-dl\config.txt My config file for youtube-dl: --rm-cache-dir -i --no-mtime --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -o "~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -f bestvideo[height<=1080][vcodec^=avc][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:115.0) Gecko/115.0 Firefox/115.0"

That must be it . I first experienced a crash on this very forum. Roytam1 has uploaded new versions with gkmedias.dll replaced. Now everything is OK again.

Random crashes on palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241012. Reverted to previous version ---> no issues.

They are already aware of the user-agent workaround. You can read all about it in this issue. But, as @dirkf states:

I got a bit further with this one. But when trying to compile yt-dlp, I get: C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Desktop\yt-dlp_source>py -m bundle.pyinstaller --onefile Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python39\Lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "C:\Python39\Lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Documents and Settings\Annelies\Bureaublad\yt-dlp_source\bundle\pyinstaller.py", line 11, in <module> from PyInstaller.__main__ import run as run_pyinstaller File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 21, in <module> import PyInstaller.building.build_main File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 32, in <module> from ..depend import bindepend File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 38, in <module> from ..utils.win32.winmanifest import RT_MANIFEST File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winmanifest.py", line 97, in <module> from PyInstaller.utils.win32 import winresource File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winresource.py", line 21, in <module> import win32api ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32api: The specified module could not be found. I think I'm about to give up trying to build an SSE version... `pip list` says I have these packages installed now: altgraph 0.17.3 Brotli 1.1.0 certifi 2024.8.30 charset-normalizer 3.3.0 future 1.0.0 idna 3.4 mutagen 1.47.0 pefile 2023.2.7 pip 24.2 pycryptodomex 3.21.0 PyInstaller 3.2.1 pyinstaller-hooks-contrib 2023.1 pypiwin32 223 pywin32 307 pywin32-ctypes 0.2.2 requests 2.32.3 setuptools 75.1.0 urllib3 2.2.3 websockets 13.1 wheel 0.44.0 (dependency curl_cffi would not install on XP)

That fails... C:\WINDOWS\system32>pip3 install pypiwin32==219 Collecting pypiwin32==219 Downloading pypiwin32-219.zip (4.8 MB) ---------------------------------------- 4.8/4.8 MB 34.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. Š exit code: 1 ?-> [7 lines of output] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 2, in <module> File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module> File "C:\DOCUME~1\Nico\LOCALS~1\Temp\pip-install-dc5wwsp0\pypiwin32_ 2eeea55aa29a49828086cc1e996b6441\setup.py", line 121 print "Building pywin32", pywin32_version ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("B uilding pywin32", pywin32_version)? [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem wit h pip. error: metadata-generation-failed × Encountered error while generating package metadata. ?-> See above for output. note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details. And then after that, installing PyInstaller 3.2.1 also fails because of that missing module...

See also my build instructions here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32076#issuecomment-1518535677