nicolaasjan

I think that must be because I built directly after the standalone one, i.e. without deleting the build directory and start over. After I built the `onedir` version today from a fresh source directory, I got: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.10.13.080600 (win_x86_dir) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121254-g635cb4543f (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-121254-g635cb4543f, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.10.05, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1834 extractors

Updated yt-dlp_Py3.14.0_x86_Vista. (with IOS patch ) @Reino; Please test if this still suits your needs.

Fortunately, my main system (Linux Mint) didn't have any issue compiling Brotli "automagically" when installing the dependencies for my newly compiled Python 3.14 (altinstall; that is, it is installed without interfering with system Python). Compiler is shipped with the distro. No problem, I was suspecting that already. It is.

I used this: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw The 32bit build was compiled with Python 3.14.0 (x86) from adang1345 on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC. The 64bit build was compiled with Python 3.14.0 (x86-64) from adang1345 on Windows 7. To let Python use this compiler, place a file named `distutils.cfg` (see below) in `.\Lib\distutils` in Python install directory (create folder `distutils`). [build] compiler = mingw32 Build Brotli: Download source tarball and extract. In source directory run: python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32 install Build wheel: python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wheel In the directory where the built wheel is, run: pip install --force-reinstall brotli-1.1.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl Huh??? .\yt-dlp_win7.exe -v [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.10.05.061237 (win7_exe*) [debug] Python 3.13.7 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 3.0.16 11 Feb 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2025-10-04-e05f8ac-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (fdk,setts), ffprobe git-2025-10-04-e05f8ac-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers, phantomjs 2.5.0 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.08.03, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Extractor Plugins: NSigDeno (YoutubeIE) [debug] Plugin directories: C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\plugins\bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider\yt_dlp_plugins, C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\plugins\yt-dlp-YTNSigDeno\yt_dlp_plugins [debug] Loaded 1833 extractors And the next Win7 builds will be Py3.14 based.

Oh, I don't mind building myself. That said, there is a new Python stable release (3.14.0) from adang1345. Test build for Vista/Win7 (32bit): yt-dlp_Py3.14.0_x86_Vista.7z As usual, the Brotli dependency is not yet available for Python 3.14... So, I had to build a wheel myself from source (not easy...). Here is the 32bit variant, if you want to compile yt-dlp yourself: brotli-1.1.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl

It doesn't have to unpack the executable to the TEMP directory each time yt-dlp is executed, so it loads a bit faster and doesn't wear your disk that much. The disadvantage is, that you can't update it with `yt-dlp -U`. Around 20 minutes. I have to fire up different virtual machines, each with different Python installs. I only have to build the custom ones for XP, Win7 and Linux_x86. The rest is done by GitHub Actions workflow.

Sure, what version do you want to link it to? yt-dlp_x86_win7.exe, yt-dlp_win7.exe or yt-dlp_win7.zip Note, that you can update the .exe files with -U.

It 's working here on New Moon.

Updated yt-dlp_Py3.13.7_x86_Vista. (with IOS patch )

It works. (also on Vista ) [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.09.27.071342 (winXP_x86_exe*) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121254-g635cb4543f (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-121254-g635cb4543f, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.08.03, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1833 extractors Are you planning to update it once in a while?

I would like to, but I depend on @cmalex for providing Python environments for XP (for which I am very grateful ). The last one being: Python3.11.4_openssl3.5.2.zip from this archive.

I really don't know... Usually it should point to a remark at the bottom, but there is none. Well, if I get any complaints, I'll point them to the download location. Shouldn't fully updated Windows 7 systems have them already? That `onedir` version was a special request. Some people always complain about yt-dlp extracting a lot of files to the TEMP folder each time it's launched. 😐 (especially on forum.ru-board.com) Maybe one day I will include such a version for Win7_x86.

That's why I decided to make diffs again. 😐 I will apply the custom changes only to the "Vista" variant offered here. It will work on higher versions of Windows as well, so @Reino can test it. Updated yt-dlp_Py3.13.7_x86_Vista.

Yes, I just saw it as well with one of their video's (on Linux, playing with MPV). But I'm afraid it will become a maintenance burden for me to keep patching yt-dlp with the ios patches discussed above. Every time `_video.py` and/or `_base.py` is changed by them, a new diff file will have to be made. And there is no guarantee that it won't break things in the future... Would you be able to build your custom yt-dlp yourself, when needed?

I just realised that if I build the Win 7 versions with adang1345's Python, they should also work on Vista (?). From the README:

Another update (sorry...) to yt-dlp for Vista, now made with the new and shiny Python 3.13.7 from adang1345. Link.

I made an update to yt-dlp for Vista, while also applying the diff's we discussed (_video.py changed a bit, due to an error). Furthermore, I found a PyInstaller 6.15.0 for Vista here (whl) and used that with success. (didn't work on XP...)

Well, at least there is Deno v1.27.0, the last one that works on Windows 7 (only 64bit...). https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3327285821 [debug] Command-line config: ['-vUF', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flexhqu1zhg'] [debug] User config "C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--extractor-args', 'youtube:bypass_native_jsi;deno_no_jitless', '--list-formats-as-table', '--no-mtime', '-o', '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-S', 'res:720,vcodec:h264,acodec:mp4a', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '--force-ipv4', '--sponsorblock-remove', 'all'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.09.23.052315 (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.13.7 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 3.0.16 11 Feb 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2025-09-14-bdb81d9-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (fdk,setts), ffprobe git-2025-09-14-bdb81d9-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers, phantomjs 2.5.0 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.08.03, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Extractor Plugins: NSigDeno (YoutubeIE) [debug] Plugin directories: C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\plugins\yt-dlp-YTNSigDeno\yt_dlp_plugins [debug] Loaded 1833 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Users\Nico/.cache\yt-dlp ... [debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/latest Latest version: nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.09.23.052315 yt-dlp is up to date (nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.09.23.052315) [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Providers: none [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo [youtube+NSigDeno] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flexhqu1zhg [youtube+NSigDeno] flexhqu1zhg: Downloading webpage [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player 0004de42 original url = /s/player/2b83d2e0/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js [youtube+NSigDeno] flexhqu1zhg: Downloading tv simply player API JSON [youtube+NSigDeno] flexhqu1zhg: Downloading tv client config [youtube+NSigDeno] flexhqu1zhg: Downloading tv player API JSON [youtube+NSigDeno] flexhqu1zhg: Downloading player 0004de42-main [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] Deno command line: deno run C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpkq8t1kxl [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] Decrypted nsig CgOJja7cldvYMEu => WV3WYPF2UPHWkQ [debug] Saving youtube-nsig.0004de42-main to cache [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] Deno command line: deno run C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpf_1d82in [debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] Decrypted nsig 5tJUPxD_Bi4bcSP => onOnwCzMQinnaQ [debug] Sort order given by user: res:720, vcodec:h264, acodec:mp4a [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, res:720(720.0), vcodec:h264(7), acodec:mp4a(9), quality, fps, hdr:12(7), source, channels, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [SponsorBlock] Fetching SponsorBlock segments [debug] SponsorBlock query: https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/skipSegments/0854?service=YouTube&categories=%5B%22filler%22%2C+%22intro%22%2C+%22preview%22%2C+%22music_offtopic%22%2C+%22interaction%22%2C+%22outro%22%2C+%22sponsor%22%2C+%22selfpromo%22%5D&actionTypes=%5B%22skip%22%2C+%22poi%22%2C+%22chapter%22%5D [SponsorBlock] No matching segments were found in the SponsorBlock database [info] Available formats for flexhqu1zhg: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH | FILESIZE TBR PROTO | VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sb2 mhtml 48x27 2 | mhtml | images storyboard sb1 mhtml 80x45 1 | mhtml | images storyboard sb0 mhtml 160x90 1 | mhtml | images storyboard 249-drc webm audio only 2 | 319.04KiB 40k https | audio only opus 40k 48k low, DRC, TV-S, webm_dash 250-drc webm audio only 2 | 397.98KiB 50k https | audio only opus 50k 48k low, DRC, TV-S, webm_dash 249 webm audio only 2 | 316.67KiB 40k https | audio only opus 40k 48k low, TV-S, webm_dash 250 webm audio only 2 | 394.90KiB 50k https | audio only opus 50k 48k low, TV-S, webm_dash 251-drc webm audio only 2 | 731.72KiB 93k https | audio only opus 93k 48k medium, DRC, TV-S, webm_dash 251 webm audio only 2 | 727.11KiB 92k https | audio only opus 92k 48k medium, TV-S, webm_dash 140-drc m4a audio only 2 | 1.00MiB 130k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 130k 44k medium, DRC, TV-S, m4a_dash 140 m4a audio only 2 | 1.00MiB 130k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 130k 44k medium, TV-S, m4a_dash 394 mp4 256x144 24 | 530.40KiB 67k https | av01.0.00M.08 67k video only 144p, TV-S, mp4_dash 278 webm 256x144 24 | 682.80KiB 86k https | vp9 86k video only 144p, TV-S, webm_dash 160 mp4 256x144 24 | 796.09KiB 101k https | avc1.4d400c 101k video only 144p, TV-S, mp4_dash 395 mp4 426x240 24 | 725.21KiB 92k https | av01.0.00M.08 92k video only 240p, TV-S, mp4_dash 242 webm 426x240 24 | 746.23KiB 94k https | vp9 94k video only 240p, TV-S, webm_dash 133 mp4 426x240 24 | 1.75MiB 227k https | avc1.4d4015 227k video only 240p, TV-S, mp4_dash 396 mp4 640x360 24 | 2.36MiB 306k https | av01.0.01M.08 306k video only 360p, TV-S, mp4_dash 243 webm 640x360 24 | 1.48MiB 192k https | vp9 192k video only 360p, TV-S, webm_dash 134 mp4 640x360 24 | 4.55MiB 590k https | avc1.4d401e 590k video only 360p, TV-S, mp4_dash 18 mp4 640x360 24 2 | 5.56MiB 720k https | avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 44k 360p, TV-S 397 mp4 854x480 24 | 4.36MiB 565k https | av01.0.04M.08 565k video only 480p, TV-S, mp4_dash 244 webm 854x480 24 | 6.62MiB 858k https | vp9 858k video only 480p, TV-S, webm_dash 135 mp4 854x480 24 | 8.15MiB 1056k https | avc1.4d401e 1056k video only 480p, TV-S, mp4_dash 779 webm 1080x608 24 | 3.81MiB 494k https | vp9 494k video only 480p, TV-S, webm_dash 780 webm 1080x608 24 | 6.63MiB 859k https | vp9 859k video only 480p, TV-S, webm_dash 398 mp4 1280x720 24 | 8.70MiB 1128k https | av01.0.05M.08 1128k video only 720p, TV-S, mp4_dash 247 webm 1280x720 24 | 11.59MiB 1502k https | vp9 1502k video only 720p, TV-S, webm_dash 136 mp4 1280x720 24 | 17.79MiB 2306k https | avc1.4d401f 2306k video only 720p, TV-S, mp4_dash

Updated yt-dlp for Vista (OpenSSL 3.5.2) here.

I was a bit tired when editing that file... Fixed now. From the Requirements page: The diff files I provided should be placed inside the yt-dlp source folder and applied with these commands: git apply _base.py.diff git apply _video.py.diff I still see it in the code, but it won't be of any use for at least YouTube...

Yes, I think so. _video.py.diff.zip I use the `git diff` command to make diff files. I presume you have git for Windows installed? The last version to support Windows Vista and Server 2008 was v2.37.1 https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff

Hmm... Must have made a mistake. Try this.

Updated yt-dlp_x86 for Vista: link.

Bad news: Deno is only available as 64bit and for Windows 10 and higher...

@VistaLover Here are new diff's. Is this what you mean?