Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[roytam1]

11 hours ago, VistaLover said:

As told, you don't have to install  node system-wide; of the linked zip archive, for yt-dlp purposes, you only need the standalone (portable) "node.exe" binary  ...

Even simpler, just place "node.exe" (67.8 MiB) next to your yt-dlp 64-bit binary and issue/configure --js-runtimes node; if you're overly concerned about "security", you can let yt-dlp launch NODE in JIT-less mode via 

--js-runtimes node --extractor-args "youtube-ejs:jitless=true"

(provides better security at the cost of performance/speed) ; according to online testimonies, Node takes just 1-2s to solve YT's challenges, while QuickJS, depending on how powerful your machine is, may take from 8-15s (and this relic of mine  (32-bit OS, 3GB RAM, Core2 Duo from late 2007), can take anything from 15-30s, depending on how busy the machine is when qjs.exe starts ) ...

I keep an eye on two things  : 

1. This; QuickJS-ng may, in due course, end up with "rope strings", too, so its speed (when used with yt-dlp) may become on par with upstream QuickJS

2. That; the astring library is an external dependency of the yt-dlp-ejs JS component which, together with a suitable JS runtime, performs the task of solving YT's JS challenges; hopefully, this PR will be accepted and merged into the astring repo and a future yt-dlp-ejs version will pick that updated version up, making the use of QuickJS-ng with yt-dlp equally "practical"  ...

Reference: here  ...

but quickjs' size is just 1.4% of node.exe, it is easier for me to bring it outside.