Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[nicolaasjan]

My releases have just been updated.

 

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[ie/youtube] Fix default player clients (#15726)

* Add `ios_downgraded` player client

*Remove `android_sdkless` player client

Closes #15712 Authored by: bashonly

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by nicolaasjan

[VistaLover]

On 1/28/2026 at 11:27 PM, VistaLover said:

2026 is definitely NOT a good year so far, it seems...

More bad news (wrt YT and yt-dlp)  : 

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11868#issuecomment-2560431566

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EDIT/UPDATE (2026/01/29):

YouTube is experimenting with some sort of new aggressive IP-based block on videoplayback urls - perhaps to replace or complement the existing "sign in to confirm you are not a bot" error on the player endpoint. This produces an HTTP 403 error on videoplayback urls, regardless of client and protocol (HTTPS, DASH, HLS, UMP, SABR, ONESIE).

If you are seeing this for the first time, backing off further downloading/requests for a little while may help to lift it. It is recommended to make use of the yt-dlp sleep options to help avoid it.

Otherwise, you might need to change IP.

Update: this comment for more details.

With the changes YouTube has been pushing recently, it is likely the out-of-the-box YouTube format support for yt-dlp will become more limited. To retain format support, we recommend looking into providing PO Tokens to yt-dlp.

Oh, BTW, the `--live-from-start` feature on LIVE YT streams is now BROKEN, too  : 

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15751

(if you ask me, it's all-out-war Google  have unleashed against the YT-downloading apps, but it appears they have their focus especially on yt-dlp  ) .