Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[Reino]

6 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

With my latest version of yt-dlp (2025.08.23.181722), I get:

Wow! Then in just 3 days they've pushed some pretty significant changes. One of which is "[ie/youtube] Replace ios with tv_simply in default clients (#14123)", which is a real pity, because I prefer the ios HLS formats.
They've now flagged these formats as requiring a PO token, which (as far as I can tell) isn't true, because the 2025.08.20.232911 version I was using still works just fine for these formats. Now I have to snatch a PO token for these to work. 

Edited August 25 by Reino

[johk]

As a side note, the standalone Windows XP version doesn't work on Windows 7 x64 with the error pointing to GetCPFileNameFromRegistry on kernell32.dll, but no problem with the native.

I used to run this version on Windows 7 x64 (as I switched from OS to OS and avoid two installs (aside this I can confirm that the Windows 7 version is slightly faster on its native platform, as you pointed out nicola)).

I read quick, but would your release have support/be released after september?

Thanks for your efforts nicolaasjan :)

[nicolaasjan]

10 hours ago, johk said:

I read quick, but would your release have support/be released after september?

Yes. 

My XP release is now based on Python 3.11.4

yt-dlp -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 local@2025.08.28 [1e28f6bf7] (win_x86_exe)
[debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev )
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino, 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 1840 extractors

 

[nicolaasjan]

For the Vista lovers 😽 :

yt-dlp_Py3.11_Vista.7z (password: 987123).

Updated today.

(the XP version does not work on Vista)

[xjani]

On 8/28/2025 at 8:09 AM, nicolaasjan said:

Yes. 

My XP release is now based on Python 3.11.4

yt-dlp -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 local@2025.08.28 [1e28f6bf7] (win_x86_exe)
[debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev )
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino, 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 1840 extractors

 

Could you share this working Python (3.11.4)(bin)?

 

Edited 9 hours ago by xjani

[VistaLover]

... Initial post deleted; apologies, but I misunderstood ; I later realised what was asked for was the CPython (3.11.4) assembly itself used to compile the yt-dlp.exe binary linked in nicolaasjan's forum signature...

Edited 4 hours ago by VistaLover
Initial post deleted

[cmalex]

4 hours ago, xjani said:

 

Could you share this working Python (3.11.4)(bin)?

 

Greetings

Python3.11.4.zip in https://mega.nz/folder/jst2WJ5B#sknEpEBamwPomx8UULWuMA

Please any questions about it at https://msfn.org/board/topic/183741-python-3813-for-windows-xp-sp3/

Best regards

[xjani]

Thank you cmalex.

Edited 5 hours ago by xjani

[nicolaasjan]

7 hours ago, xjani said:

Could you share this working Python (3.11.4)(bin)?

Here is my current folder with dependencies already included:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/2b36ypa7wjhdaitwzi9ij/Python311_XP-folder.7z?rlkey=v9gmygvodp942f05537fv26w0

Don't upgrade PyInstaller 5.13.2; you'll run into errors...

[xjani]

Thank you nicolaasjan.