Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[j7n]

Maybe a late update doesn't count. Demetrius2003 expects that the system will be bricked with this update. That is why I never install updates unless they fix a specific problem and don't touch other areas. Just extracting advapi32.dll from it is not enough.

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, j7n said:

Demetrius2003 expects that the system will be bricked with this update.

... But he specifically mentions pirated Win7 versions prone to such "bricking"   : 

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This phenomenon is observed everywhere on pirated versions, of which there are most in the country.
Unfortunately, it has been tested on many systems. It may work for licensed ones,

(machine translation from Russian)

[Reino]

On 6/21/2026 at 10:29 AM, AstroSkipper said:

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

Yes. https://reino.synology.me/ should work for now.

[AstroSkipper]

1 minute ago, Reino said:

Yes. https://reino.synology.me/ should work for now.

Great news! Thank you very much! Your years of work will therefore be preserved. 

[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.

I have tested your releases. ffplay is only working under Windows XP in your package ffmpeg-8.1-1643-abb1524138-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z but not in ffmpeg-8.2-1568-b355200263-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z. I compared some file sizes and noticed that your avcodec-62.dll was reduced from 65.668.622 Bytes to only 18.681.870 Bytes. I think there is a lot missing.

[autodidact]

2 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

I have tested your releases. ffplay is only working under Windows XP in your package ffmpeg-8.1-1643-abb1524138-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z but not in ffmpeg-8.2-1568-b355200263-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z. I compared some file sizes and noticed that your avcodec-62.dll was reduced from 65.668.622 Bytes to only 18.681.870 Bytes. I think there is a lot missing.

You must be trying to play a format that doesn't have a demuxer and/or decoder built-in. The current builds are scaled down to basic so the avcodec is naturally much smaller,
with support for fewer codecs. If you let me know what you are trying to play I can try to add the necessary demuxer/decoder.

Also, the current builds have no cryptography library.

[AstroSkipper]

7 hours ago, autodidact said:

You must be trying to play a format that doesn't have a demuxer and/or decoder built-in. The current builds are scaled down to basic so the avcodec is naturally much smaller,
with support for fewer codecs. If you let me know what you are trying to play I can try to add the necessary demuxer/decoder.

Also, the current builds have no cryptography library.

I tried to play a music video which I downloaded from YouTube with the h.264 codec in the mp4 format. A standard format, so to speak. It was downloaded with my ytBATCH for Windows XP and processed with ffmpeg 7.1 to embed subtitle, metadata and a thumbnail. It can be played with all players, even with ffplay except your recent version 8.2. ffplay immediately closes when trying to play this video. Why did you scale down to basic?  Your previous releases have really been fine.  In my opinion, the only thing which can happen is that scaling down results in problems playing some kind of videos. BTW, I asked you in a previous post whether you also could add ffplay to your static releases. Is that possible for you? 

Edited 2 hours ago by AstroSkipper

[AstroSkipper]

@autodidact Here is information about the used codec of the video from VLC: