Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[nicolaasjan]

Info:
On GitHub, the names and download links of yt-dlp for Windows XP have changed:

yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip > yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe (starting after the next release, it should be able to update with `yt-dlp -U` )
yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP_onedir.zip > yt-dlp_x86_winXP.zip

Direct links:
https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe
https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86_winXP.zip

For Windows Vista, new update here.

[j7n]

I am using DLP 2025-08-20. SABR has gone away again for now and downloads work. It is not great that I need to wait some 10-20 seconds to see if download would start, but what can you do. I haven't seen very poor video quality again recently.

[user57]

actually i have often delays opening a youtube video with my win7 machine

it might actually has something to do with this but im not sure

useally it are around 10 seconds

that problem apeared rather recently

[nicolaasjan]

1 hour ago, user57 said:

actually i have often delays opening a youtube video with my win7 machine

it might actually has something to do with this but im not sure

useally it are around 10 seconds

that problem apeared rather recently

Try these experimental filters in Ublock Origin (I don't know if they are working with uBO Legacy...).
 

Quote

 

For slowly loading YouTube, TEST these filters:

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_enable_ab_rsp_cl, false)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.ab_pl_man, false)
||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch##+js(set, ytInitialData, undefined)

Use them at your own risk. Try them separately or in combination.

 

From:

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1nf7heb/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2025_megathread_2/

It worked for me in current Firefox.

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