nicolaasjan

Both sites work fine here (though rather slow) on New Moon 2025-02-14.

On New Moon 2025-02-06 there is no crash on hd24bit.com. Only get the endlessly spinning circle. See Pale Moon issue.

Yes, @Maroc there made some apps for XP, but he stopped... (his frustration starts here) Anyhow, there's this: But I couldn't get it working. Discussion starts here. Error (see post further down the thread): WARNING: [youtube] Unable to download webpage: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03499EB0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03499810>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error. Retrying (1/3)... [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03626C30>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error. Retrying (2/3)... [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x034996D0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error. Retrying (3/3)... [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] Unable to download API page: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03626690>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error (caused by TransportError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03626690>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error')) [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading android player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x03499710>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error. Retrying (1/3)... [youtube] Ef9QnZVpVd8: Downloading android player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x034135B0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 0] Error. Retrying (2/3)...

O yes, I remember that in the past (with an older version of MPV) the config file was expected there. I switched to a self-built MPV since the Linux repo version is much older. I use these scripts to build my own version.

Get the example 'mpv.conf' file from here. Put it in '~/.config/mpv' and enable under # video settings #: hwdec=auto Under # other settings #, insert: ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4][vcodec^=avc]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" ? Profit CPU stays mostly below 10% on my old Haswell i5. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y ● Video --vid=1 (h264 1920x1080 29.97 fps) [default] ● Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (aac 2ch 44100 Hz 128 kbps) [default] File tags: Uploader: Led Zeppelin Channel_URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKZA66vM_TUpetUNohmR0A Using hardware decoding (vaapi). AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 vaapi[nv12] AV: 00:00:43 / 00:09:06 (8%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 59s/23MB Exiting... (Quit) On Windows mpv.conf goes in: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\mpv Extra convenient: Put MPV (and while you're at it, also yt-dlp) in your right-click menu with "Open With".

First, lets see what the yt-dlp team will do by then. If they drop support for Python 3.9, our only hope for Windows XP is someone who can make a special 3.10 or 3.11 version. (haven't heard from @cmalex for quite some time...) 🇺🇦 Other than that, you could just switch to Windows 7 (or Linux, that will run better on older hardware than Windows).

Maybe make a disk image before applying?

Is your Windows 7 fully up to date? From answers.microsoft.com: Mine looks like this (Windows 7 updated till now with Server 2008 R2 patches (see My Digital Life Forums):

It was requested by someone. Plus, it can be built with a modified Python 3.13 (Python 3.9 might be unsupported by yt-dlp after 31 Oct 2025).

Could you please share a verbose log of a failing download with yt-dlp_win7.exe? Get a log like this and paste it in a code block here. (also make sure you have recent FFmpeg and FFprobe versions, that are still compatible with Windows 7, like from here) yt-dlp -v "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y" > "C:\Users\User\Desktop\yt-dlp_downloadlog.txt" 2>&1 (replace "User" with your actual user name) Here it yielded this: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y'] [debug] User config "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--list-formats-as-table', '--no-mtime', '-o', '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4][vcodec^=avc]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '--embed-thumbnail', '--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@2025.01.21.064949 (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.13.1 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 3.0.15 3 Sep 2024) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2025-01-12-5a72266-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (fdk,setts), ffprobe git-2025-01-12-5a72266-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.21.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.12.14, curl_cffi-0.5.10, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.3, urllib3-2.3.0, websockets-14.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Loaded 1844 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Users\User/.cache\yt-dlp ... [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading webpage [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading tv player API JSON [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading ios player API JSON [debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function js_dd017f77_109 [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading player dd017f77 [debug] Saving youtube-sigfuncs.js_dd017f77_109 to cache [debug] Saving youtube-nsig.dd017f77 to cache [debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig kHdKFJ5I35yJhRIq => c3OtHhh_DYjyuA [debug] Loading youtube-nsig.dd017f77 from cache [debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig xJK28kSfzNxzmNnz => SLJmJ1iaXMXGMw [debug] [youtube] Extracting signature function js_dd017f77_105 [debug] Saving youtube-sigfuncs.js_dd017f77_105 to cache [debug] [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: ios client https formats require a PO Token which was not provided. They will be skipped as they may yield HTTP Error 403. You can manually pass a PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token=ios+XXX". For more information, refer to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#po-token-guide . To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot" [youtube] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading m3u8 information [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [SponsorBlock] Fetching SponsorBlock segments [debug] SponsorBlock query: https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/skipSegments/0660?service=YouTube&categories=%5B%22sponsor%22%2C+%22interaction%22%2C+%22preview%22%2C+%22outro%22%2C+%22music_offtopic%22%2C+%22filler%22%2C+%22intro%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] PD-MdiUm1_Y: Downloading 1 format(s): 137+140 [info] Downloading video thumbnail 41 ... [info] Writing video thumbnail 41 to: C:\Users\User\Desktop\Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video).webp [ThumbnailsConvertor] Converting thumbnail "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video).webp" to jpg [debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -f image2 -pattern_type none -i "file:C:\Users\User\Desktop\Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video).webp" -update 1 -qmin 1 -q:v 1 -bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg -movflags +faststart -metadata "synopsis=" "file:C:\Users\User\Desktop\Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video).jpg" Deleting original file C:\Users\User\Desktop\Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video).webp (pass -k to keep) [debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr5---sn-5hneknek.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1737551890&ei=spuQZ5SqKoi56dsPo6W9uQI&ip=<REDACTED>&id=o-ABbcq0cdwr1UDg5yah1-RRSzdqveQwOQY3hbUK9Q6C3X&itag=137&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C137%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C247%2C248%2C278%2C394%2C395%2C396%2C397%2C398%2C399&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1737530290%2C&mh=Gc&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-5hneknek%2Csn-5hne6nzy&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=5&pl=16&rms=au%2Cau&gcr=nl&initcwndbps=4523750&bui=AY2Et-OiWYkOgv1GbIen9daMJuhHBc7DifoGv43Y_qastPrsl0tIRcosAKLtS7XpJEhWZfhBeZ4_J561&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=tRjfFWKy1h7_VE8pS-Cxmr4Q&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=236148001&dur=546.879&lmt=1734441286496258&mt=1737529975&fvip=2&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&fexp=51326932%2C51335594%2C51353498%2C51371294%2C51384461&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=4535434&n=SLJmJ1iaXMXGMw&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cgcr%2Cbui%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AGluJ3MwRAIgHjxUIs2i2MFsB-F23Hgdf-gI-WwCK_-GaX-96Rwev6MCIFiKRfq1wrDycUU6R4BUUTHGMo1HRdeW8XhqTzG1szIf&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAKHZ0R2CSSX1ZKaqN8Zr6hxwU8RKfDoGTpgahu-u4DlvAiEA6SQSpmannCDM2oeXsSYeLKVztJ5MQOXufu_VhUwhPrc%3D" [debug] File locking is not supported. 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I got it to work (sort of...) by going to `about:config` and change the string of: general.useragent.override.youtube.com into: Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

@VistaLover Thanks for answering while I was still writing my own reply. I would like to add, that the Python 3.9 files by @cmalex (which I also use) can be found here. I can't use any PyInstaller above v5.13.2 on XP...

Could anyone test this new version of youtube-dl (link in signature)? @dirkf made a few changes, so that now the custom UA and cookies are not needed any more. Quote:

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: