Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[AstroSkipper]

On 5/3/2026 at 2:00 PM, Reino said:

Btw, as per 2026-07-01 https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/ will cease to exist. I got a letter from XS4ALL (my ISP). I do have a Synology NAS, so I'm looking into setting that up as a file-server.

Hello @Reino! Is there already a new address for your great releases? 🤔

[autodidact]

14 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

BTW, do you also provide static urls to your XP releases? 

I don't have the space to leave all previous builds in place.  I could do something like this:

https://files.videohelp.com/u/69760/ffmpeg-win32-XP-shared-latest.7z

https://files.videohelp.com/u/69760/ffmpeg-win32-XP-static-latest.7z

Two additional archives with a static name that would always match the latest uploaded version.

[AstroSkipper]

On 6/22/2026 at 3:14 AM, autodidact said:

I don't have the space to leave all previous builds in place.  I could do something like this:

https://files.videohelp.com/u/69760/ffmpeg-win32-XP-shared-latest.7z

https://files.videohelp.com/u/69760/ffmpeg-win32-XP-static-latest.7z

Two additional archives with a static name that would always match the latest uploaded version.

A big thank you, @autodidact!  If you could sort that out, it would be absolutely perfect. That way, I’d be able to include your latest versions of ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay in my ytBATCH for Windows XP. However, ffplay is missing from your static archive. Could you please add it there, too? 

Kind regards, AstroSkipper 

Edited yesterday at 09:39 AM by AstroSkipper

[j7n]

YouTube just stopped working for me completely. First it required me to supply cookies. After a bit of fiddling, I used --cookies-from-browser chromium to obtain a 400 kB file with all cookies. Then I supplied it with --cookies.

The errors were: "Sign in to prove that you are not a bot."

Then: "n challenge solving failed. Ensure that you have a supported JavaScript runtime."

https://imgur.com/a/g7hUh6R

I forgot what the JavaScript runtime was, only that they were several choices that people described as very slow. I haven't got them. The mode also switched from "android vr" to "tv downgraded".

Edited 2 hours ago by j7n

[AstroSkipper]

YouTube works fine here in VLC using my youtube.lua script: https://msfn.org/board/topic/185971-youtube-under-windows-xp-downloaders-players-and-browser-support/page/13/#findComment-1288475