Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[nicolaasjan]

Test binary of yt-dlp for XP, made with Python 3.10.18 from a new Python 3.10 environment provided by @cmalex:

See link in signature.

Did not work on Windows Vista  @VistaLover

 

Edited Saturday at 07:59 PM by nicolaasjan

[user57]

Csr functions useally came from csrsrv.dll 

i think CsrNewThread is just a different name for CsrCreateThread

those are often very similiar to CreateThread or NtCreateThread

 

it would be about looking its parameters and purpose for exact detail, but xp has many of these functions

https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/csrsrv/api/process/thread.htm

[roytam1]

3 hours ago, user57 said:

Csr functions useally came from csrsrv.dll 

i think CsrNewThread is just a different name for CsrCreateThread

those are often very similiar to CreateThread or NtCreateThread

 

it would be about looking its parameters and purpose for exact detail, but xp has many of these functions

https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/csrsrv/api/process/thread.htm

no it do something different:

https://doxygen.reactos.org/d6/dad/sdk_2include_2reactos_2subsys_2csr_2csr_8h.html#a37b4505763dfb64bf489339460ae04e8

[user57]

there CsrNewThread is just a redirection to NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort 

if thats all you just have to use NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort, xp has that function

[nicolaasjan]

For @VistaLover :

Vista compatible yt-dlp here (password: 987123).

Edited 11 hours ago by nicolaasjan

[VistaLover]

4 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

Vista compatible yt-dlp here.

; is that py3.9-based (so will get deprecated in October ) ? Can you at least upload manually to GitHub, where it'll be more visible and with a permanent link? Thanks  ...

(OT: I have serious issues with my landline since Aug 19th, my tel. number isn't working at all and my ADSL+ internet access is quite fickle; my ISP don't really know what's goin' on, they said I have to give them time until Sep 3rd (!) for them to identify the true nature of the problems  ... ) Sometime later today, hopefully, I'll further comment on your previous post  ...

[nicolaasjan]

48 minutes ago, VistaLover said:

; is that py3.9-based (so will get deprecated in October )

It is Python 3.10.18 based, but Dropbox notified me via mail that link sharing was temporarily disabled (did they detect a possible virus???).

I have now enabled sharing again and password protected my file.

yt-dlp_Vista_x86.7z (password: 987123).

[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@2025.08.23.181722 (win_x86_exe)
[debug] Python 3.10.18 (CPython AMD64 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 (OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev )
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino, phantomjs 2.5.0
[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 1840 extractors

I could also upload it to GitHub, but compiling and updating the repo is becoming a time consuming task by now (I also have a new Linux x86 Py3.11 standalone executable).

Edited 16 hours ago by nicolaasjan

[VistaLover]

23 minutes ago, nicolaasjan said:

(did they detect a possible virus???)

... My local AV solution, after a Custom Scan of the executable (yt-dlp.exe), found NO threats  (red rectangle in Greek, haven't had time to consult VT) : 

[nicolaasjan]

2 hours ago, VistaLover said:

haven't had time to consult VT

2 false positives.

[nicolaasjan]

Python 3.11.4 yt-dlp variant for Windows Vista 😀️ :

yt-dlp_Py3.11_Vista (password: 987123)

I will check tomorrow if it compiles on XP.

[roytam1]

On 8/24/2025 at 8:07 AM, user57 said:

there CsrNewThread is just a redirection to NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort 

if thats all you just have to use NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort, xp has that function

no, CsrNewThread also passes an internal variable to NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort. so you can't just use NtRegisterThreadTerminatePort to replace CsrNewThread

Edited 2 hours ago by roytam1