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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: YouTube downloads fail all the time
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:36:46 -0400
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On 6/24/2023 3:03 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> In message <u773p5$59dg$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:57:22, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> writes
>> On 6/24/2023 9:09 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> In message <u76kqk$3hng$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:42:05, Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> writes
> []
>>>> And I can choose to download only audio.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>> Rink
>>>  Fellow yt-dlp users:
>>> If I want just audio, I generally download the video and then extract the audio (I use Pazera, as it's _clear_ from that that it's
> []
>>> based on ffmpeg etc., like most such utilities). But the other day I decided to try to use the audio-only function of y' itself: the -x option. So I tried it, and it failed saying I didn't have ffmpeg or ffprobe.exe. So I copied those (I did have them) to the y' folder, then tried again; it then said I didn't have some .dll. So I copied that - now a different .dll (similar name, just a different number). Tried one more time, then gave up.
>>>  Anyone else (W7-32) using the -x option without trouble? Or, is
> []
>> You should be using a package with statically compiled executables,
>> ffmpeg.exe , ffprobe.exe , ffplay.exe
>>
>> Zeranoe used to build and serve those. Now, it's Gyan.
>>
>>   https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
> 
> Unfortunately, that says "All builds are 64-bit"; I presume those wouldn't work on my 32-bit system. (I couldn't see any mention of a 32-bit version.)
>>
>> In my collection -- package seems well-compressed:
>>
>>   Name: ffmpeg-5.1.2-full_build__Nov24_2022.7z
> 
> So for use to make yt-dlp -x work, you think I'd need the full version, or would the basic one work?
> 
>>   Size: 47,431,656 bytes (45 MiB)
>>   SHA256: 037BDB2183189DC0EFA642B1FDE7D6B33C6114036FA06FAF35F777E8DF07D863
>>
>>
>> C:\Users\username\Downloads\ffmpeg-5.1.2-full_build__Nov24_2022.7z\ffmpe
>> g-5.1.2-full_build\bin\
>>        ffmpeg.exe   127,396,864 bytes
>>        ffplay.exe   127,259,648 bytes
>>        ffprobe.exe  127,296,512 bytes
>>
>> And those are static, as there are *no* DLL files in the bin folder.
>> All the DLL content (libs) hide inside the EXE file.
>>
>>   Paul

https://web.archive.org/web/20180102224237/https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/

    ffmpeg-3.3.3-win32-static.zip   43590056   07-Aug-2017 21:09

Higher than version 4.x.x does not run on Windows XP.

Version 3.3.3 is a good general purpose one, and
might keep a lot of people happy.

If you want to test a 4.x.x , you can look at the end of zeranoe
before it quit the business. These 4.x.x won't work on WinXP
(I could see DLL trouble in the nightlies), but will likely
work on Win7 x86 just fine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200708235238/https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/

If the very latest have switched to 64-only, that could be ffmpeg.org
doing that, or it could be Gyan cutting the workload in half. Maybe
even the Wiki article, would document an event like that.

    Paul