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nicolaasjan

nicolaasjan

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4 hours ago, oitoevinte said:

Just grabbed yt-dlp from the signature, didn't knew this was ported to XP, but it's coming with a few concerns on Virustotal

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2c7adccafeb7f15ff664a688f993a8ee00260da14981e19932ee6da8a938ca6d/relations

A few false positives from some unknown security vendors is quite common. See issue #25.

The executable on yt-dlp's GitHub is built with a custom Pyinstaller from https://github.com/yt-dlp/pyinstaller-builds  and doesn't have that issue.

I use the official Pyinstaller. :)

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See also:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69899867/python-script-distribution-on-windows-options-to-avoid-virus-false-positives.

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VistaLover

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5 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

The executable on yt-dlp's GitHub is built with a custom Pyinstaller from https://github.com/yt-dlp/pyinstaller-builds 
and doesn't have that issue. (...) I use the official Pyinstaller. :)

Latest PyInstaller on PyPI is at version 5.7.0 ; yt-dlp "org" have used custom compiles of PyInstaller v 4.5.1->4.9->4.10->5.2 and are now (probably) using v5.3 ...

The 32-bit wheels of those custom compiles can be seen in below branch:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/Pyinstaller-Builds/tree/gh-pages/i686

Direct link for latest v5.3:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/Pyinstaller-Builds/raw/gh-pages/i686/pyinstaller-5.3-py3-none-any.whl

If you so wish, you yourself can switch over to this custom yt-dlp compile of PyInstaller:

python -m pip uninstall pyinstaller (will uninstall v5.7.0 fetched from PyPI)

python -m pip install "path-to-downloaded/pyinstaller-5.3-py3-none-any.whl"

or even:

python -m pip install "https://github.com/yt-dlp/Pyinstaller-Builds/raw/gh-pages/i686/pyinstaller-5.3-py3-none-any.whl"

... then build yt-dlp_x86.exe with that ;) ...

nicolaasjan

nicolaasjan

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6 hours ago, VistaLover said:

If you so wish, you yourself can switch over to this custom yt-dlp compile of PyInstaller:

That's what I once did, but unfortunately it had issues here. 

11124 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-yt_dlp.py' from 'C:\\Program Files\\Python38\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
  File "<string>", line 3
    import yt-dlp
             ^
      SyntaxError: invalid syntax

See:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4332

Pukkandan's answer:

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Why are you using our custom builds? They are meant only for use in our release process. Install the actual pyinstaller

 

 

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oitoevinte

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Thanks for clearing that out. I'm familiar with false positives, it's just that phone home to an MS Azure server that tickled me.

Btw, do you publish your youtube-dl fixed binares elsewhere or just in this forum? I don't see it on your Github.

And Thanks for your your!

nicolaasjan

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1 hour ago, oitoevinte said:

Btw, do you publish your youtube-dl fixed binares elsewhere or just in this forum? I don't see it on your Github.

Youtube-dl is not released (by me) on GitHub.

Yt-dlp is here (forked the official repo and publish in-between builds. Then manually upload my compiled XP compatible one) :

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases

Click on "Show all 19 assets" and you'll see "yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip". :)

In the New Moon browser you need the extension "Palefill Web Technologies Polyfill" (palefill-1.26.xpi) to navigate GitHub.

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VistaLover

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10 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

See:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4332

In that linked GH issue, you were at PyInstaller v4.10 (custom "yt-dlp" build); have you given their most-up-to-date version 5.3 (linked in my previous comment) a shot? The idea is that a custom build has a unique bootloader not shared with the rest of the EXEs compiled with the widely available PyPI edition of PyInstaller, thus raising less red flags (false detections) with (mostly) low-quality AV suites :angry: ... And, in any case, you did say in that comment that:

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yt-dlp is just working fine however.

So, you stand to lose nothing by trialing v5.3... My 2c, of course... ;)

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nicolaasjan

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24 minutes ago, VistaLover said:

So, you stand to lose nothing by trialing v5.3... My 2c, of course... ;)

I will try tomorrow in a VM snapshot and see what happens. Stay tuned. :)

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nicolaasjan

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41 minutes ago, nicolaasjan said:
1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

So, you stand to lose nothing by trialing v5.3... My 2c, of course... ;)

I will try tomorrow in a VM snapshot and see what happens. Stay tuned. :)

I was so curious, that I tested it now. :)

4 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious.

And ugly warnings when running 'yt-dlp -v':

https://0x0.st/HrT8.txt.

So I'll just follow Pukkandan's advice and keep using the official PyInstaller.

 

VistaLover

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6 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

And ugly warnings when running 'yt-dlp -v':

https://0x0.st/HrT8.txt.

Actually, unrelated to what we've been discussing here... ;) The multiple 

[1888] WARNING: file already exists but should not: C:\DOCUME~1\nico\LOCALS~1\Temp\_MEI18882\Cryptodome\*

warnings are a manifestation of a very recent bug, which I have reported here (possibly related to the new "ways" PyCryptodome[x] is imported at yt-dlp's runtime and, thus, the "new" ways the module is being packed by PyInstaller) ...

Even your very own compiles are being affected by that bug:

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.09.051430/yt-dlp_x86.exe

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.11.092312/yt-dlp_x86.exe

(One needs Vista SP2+ [32 and/or 64-bit] to test these).

The bug may be exclusive to the GitHub Actions compiled builds, because the ones I prepare myself locally (with CPython 3.7.16), as well as your "manual" build "yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip", do not exhibit this bug :whistle: ...

Sometimes I wish the yt-dlp devs left the code "at peace" for awhile, in a good-working-state... "Shouldn't fix what isn't broken" :P comes to mind... But what do I know (except for stumbling on bugs :angry: ) ?

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nicolaasjan

nicolaasjan

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5 hours ago, VistaLover said:

The bug may be exclusive to the GitHub Actions compiled builds, because the ones I prepare myself locally (with CPython 3.7.16), as well as your "manual" build "yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip", do not exhibit this bug :whistle: ...

That's because my XP port is built with PyInstaller 5.7, in which the bug is fixed. :)

See here.

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Even your very own compiles are being affected by that bug:

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.09.051430/yt-dlp_x86.exe

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.11.092312/yt-dlp_x86.exe

 

I only occasionally test these, to be honest... :blushing:

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Sometimes I wish the yt-dlp devs left the code "at peace" for awhile, in a good-working-state... "Shouldn't fix what isn't broken" :P comes to mind...

Exactly what I was thinking.

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