Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[user57]

the answer from the developer is not bad, but he also say he dont know it so exactly either

but i would have to go with close to nothing to just write something to this

connections are made via winsock - here TCP/IP procolls and TLS (aka the named openssl) can be involved
if its a winHTTP request the HTTP request also sends what OS you are on - some actually then refuse the connection if they see this
that would be changeable

the idea going to a changed python yea - i also said that - even tho i had much less useful detail´s 

a other small idea is to look if the same code work for a other OS, if so its likely the internals (the functions that come next) somehow mess up
thats also what the python devloper said with other words 

the openssl problem might be possible to determinate by just trying a different OS - if it has the same code then its not openssl

a problem i can see here that this rely´s on script functions (low level) the next tier functions are deeper (like the named winsock)
if its somewhere at this spot you need to debug these functions - and see why they are breaking up
this is the other problem i talked about - if you would have a normal c++ style you could see the most internal functions 
(instead of only "connection failed" or something like "urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x032F9910>: Failed to establish a new connection")

[nicolaasjan]

18 hours ago, user57 said:

the answer from the developer is not bad, but he also say he dont know it so exactly either

The answer was actually from Copilot AI. 

[j7n]

The SABR problem has returned. It dowloads only VP9. I have to make multiple attempts at downloading.

WARNING: [youtube] qqhXsUwncfE: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See 

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more details

[j7n]

Seems like they could build in a "retry" up to five times to get the requested non "SABR" download. Currently I have to do it manually: watch the console, close and reopen the link. The workinh download will likely go away soon though. Maybe it's a fluke that I'm getting it. The current process with the "potoken" ain't gonna happen unless it is made easier.

[Rod Steel]

On 8/8/2025 at 10:48 PM, j7n said:

The SABR problem has returned. It dowloads only VP9. I have to make multiple attempts at downloading.

FYI:  try the best online YouTube downloader so far.

https://ssyoutube.online/en1/

[VistaLover]

43 minutes ago, Rod Steel said:

the best online YouTube downloader so far.

https://ssyoutube.online/en1/

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[j7n]

I will use this if it remains working after SABR remains the only option. Have to block advertisements though with a regular expression: obqj2.com will likely keep changing.

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, j7n said:

after SABR remains the only option.

First of all, have a read of below yt-dlp GitHub issue tracker comment:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13965#issuecomment-3168934752

Some of the described solutions may work for you (as they did for others  ) ...

At the same time, the yt-dlp devs are already working towards the (plausible) scenario of SABR-only: 

https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-dev/tree/feat/youtube/sabr

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/13515#issue-3164587812

(latest test release, requires Win10+:  

https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-dev/releases/tag/2025.08.10.010506 )

Since you're mostly on WS2008R2, the server edition of Win7, and @nicolaasjan  already provides Win7-compatible (py > 3.9) yt-dlp compiles, you should be good to go  when the currently experimental SABR downloader makes it, in due course, to the release branch of yt-dlp; Vista SP2 and XP SP3 users will be the ones "left stranded on a desert island"  after October, because so far no solution has materialised for those users (i.e. a CPython >3.9 recompile/fork that would launch BOTH on NT 5.x/6.0, having additional support for all yt-dlp required Python modules ) ...

[j7n]

I didn't know that a Windows 7 program existed because it wasn't in his signature. They might not finish SABR before the end of Python. I don't want to do anything with Potoken because you need to dig it out of the browser repeatedly and then pass it into the command-line. I don't touch command line after initially setting it up.

[user57]

1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

First of all, have a read of below yt-dlp GitHub issue tracker comment:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13965#issuecomment-3168934752

Some of the described solutions may work for you (as they did for others  ) ...

At the same time, the yt-dlp devs are already working towards the (plausible) scenario of SABR-only: 

https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-dev/tree/feat/youtube/sabr

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/13515#issue-3164587812

(latest test release, requires Win10+:  

https://github.com/coletdjnz/yt-dlp-dev/releases/tag/2025.08.10.010506 )

Since you're mostly on WS2008R2, the server edition of Win7, and @nicolaasjan  already provides Win7-compatible (py > 3.9) yt-dlp compiles, you should be good to go  when the currently experimental SABR downloader makes it, in due course, to the release branch of yt-dlp; Vista SP2 and XP SP3 users will be the ones "left stranded on a desert island"  after October, because so far no solution has materialised for those users (i.e. a CPython >3.9 recompile/fork that would launch BOTH on NT 5.x/6.0, having additional support for all yt-dlp required Python modules ) ...

well it raise questions why they are not able to make it xp compatible, they are deeply into this stuff

is it a problem of skill ? like somebody just used someones code that was wrote for win10, or a must to a certain engine version (that would also be a python version)

it also could have come that python is a scriptish language like java - if you do write a code there it might just depents on the java engine 

personally i have never seen this to happen with a normal c++ style

 

but going a little of-topic - this is bad for vista 7 and even 10 users - this version around play might just hit them at some point either - that might not be now but that would be a thing - they are trying with the vs2022 version already (and trying to get rid even 10)

if it comes over a next newer python version then you run into the same problem - again it raise the question if you have insight into the real code - not just it´s low level/script functions