Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

**Reino** · August 25

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. :realmad:

Edited August 25 by Reino

**johk** · August 27

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** · Thursday at 07:09 AM

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** · Thursday at 07:16 AM

For the Vista lovers 😽 :

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

Updated today.

(the XP version does not work on Vista)

**xjani** · 2025-09-02T11:00:35Z

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 17 hours ago by xjani

**VistaLover** · 2025-09-02T15:05:45Z

... Initial post deleted; apologies, but I misunderstood :blushing: ; 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 12 hours ago by VistaLover
Initial post deleted

**cmalex** · 2025-09-02T15:40:04Z

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** · 2025-09-02T15:50:13Z

Thank you cmalex.

Edited 12 hours ago by xjani

**nicolaasjan** · 2025-09-02T19:01:44Z

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** · 2025-09-02T20:48:00Z

Thank you nicolaasjan.

**Reino** · 2025-09-02T23:04:17Z

On 5/12/2023 at 4:22 PM, Reino said:

On 5/11/2023 at 6:54 PM, cmalex said:

And can i ask You to publish at least one lastest dev files for Your's OpenSSL and FFMpeg shared (includes and lib)?

I hope openssl-3.1.0-win32-dev-xpmod-sse.7z would suffice. And FFmpeg: ffmpeg-6.1-588-4006c71-win32-dev-xpmod-sse.7z.

On 8/28/2025 at 9:09 AM, nicolaasjan said:

yt-dlp -v
[...]
[debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev )
[...]

@cmalex Believe it or not, only just now I suddenly realized why you needed that dev-archive. :blushing:

Have a look at https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/openssl/?C=M;O=A. I've just uploaded v3.5.2. Though I'm on Win11 nowadays, I believe it should work on WinXP.

**VistaLover** · 2025-09-03T01:08:24Z

2 hours ago, Reino said:

Have a look at https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/openssl/?C=M;O=A.
I've just uploaded v3.5.2. (redacted) I believe it should work on WinXP.

Hello Reino (OT, but I'm really missing your Vista-compatible FFmpeg compiles )

While your OpenSSL binaries (archive "openssl-3.5.2-win32-shared-xpmod-sse.7z") may very well be XP+ compatible :thumbup , they don't work out-of-the box as CPython dependency by swapping the already existing DLLs (of openssl v3.1.0-dev) inside cmalex's CPython assemblies with them; he's been using the same (quite deprecated and now rather insecure :whistle: ) v3.1.0-dev DLLs in his 3.8.13, 3.9.13, 3.10.8 and 3.11.4 CPython offerings, but the thing is the libcrypto-3.dll and libssl-3.dll inside CPython work in conjunction with two Python DLLs, files "_ssl.pyd" and (possibly) "_hashlib.pyd"; the existing .pyd files are incompatible with your own openssl DLLs ...

BTW, I'm on Vista SP2 32-bit, so I'm using cmalex's :wub: Vista-compatible 3.11.4 assembly; with the original v3.1.0-dev DLLs:

python
Python 3.11.4 (heads/My3.11.4-dirty:1c368b1ab42, Aug 24 2025, 19:29:33) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev '
>>> ^Z

<redacted>\3.11.4\cmalex\Python3114-32_Vista>

Overwrite them with your own v3.5.2 DLLs and...

python
Python 3.11.4 (heads/My3.11.4-dirty:1c368b1ab42, Aug 24 2025, 19:29:33) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<redacted>\3.11.4\cmalex\Python3114-32_Vista>\Lib\ssl.py", line 100, in <module>
    import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
    ^^^^^^^^^^^
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _ssl: The specified procedure could not be found.
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'ssl' is not defined
>>> ^Z

<redacted>\3.11.4\cmalex\Python3114-32_Vista>

I guess newer versions of "_ssl.pyd" and "_hashlib.pyd" must be provided for openssl-3.5.2 compatibility :dubbio: ...

@nicolaasjan

openssl-3.1.0-dev inside cmalex's assemblies (both 3.10.18 and 3.11.4, both XP/Vista variants) can be updated to a slightly more recent version, openssl-3.1.2, by using the OpenSSL-3.1.2 DLLs cmalex had compiled in the past for another of his projects, ProxyMII; link below:

https://mega.nz/folder/68dj2YTY#As2w31IO4Smr7gy6p1ciSg/file/Pl9yzapZ

Proof:

python
Python 3.11.4 (heads/My3.11.4-dirty:1c368b1ab42, Aug 24 2025, 19:29:33) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 3.1.2 1 Aug 2023'
>>> ^Z

<redacted>\3.11.4\cmalex\Python3114-32_Vista>

NB: When using the Vista variants of py3.10.18/3.11.4 to compile yt-dlp_x86.exe for Vista, none of the wrapper DLLs (kernelxp.dll, ntext.dll, psapi.dll) are needed; because your resultant yt-dlp.exe binaries (for Vista) still contain file "psapi.dll", redundant on Vista :whistle: ; come to think of it, I don't think file "ws2_xx.dll" is needed on Vista either, but I'm not dead certain; only cmalex can vouch for that ...

Many thanks and praise to both cmalex and nicolaasjan for... keeping the torch lit :thumbup (i.e. yt-dlp accessible on Win<8.1) ...

Edited 3 hours ago by VistaLover
wording, syntax

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