Windows & youtube-dl

[banananex]

Hello guys,

Soon it's been year and the issues with youtube-dl and windows haven't been "fixed". Linux users enjoy using "yt-dlp" alternative which apparantely works great. youtube-dl hasn't been updated since december 2021 which isn't very promising imo: https://youtube-dl.org/

It seems pretty obvious that yt-dlp is the successor of youtube-dl.

Here's the thread that started it all:
https://forum.sinusbot.com/threads/issue-with-the-latest-youtube-dl.8514/

Here's another one with the same issue:
https://forum.sinusbot.com/threads/ytdl-fehler.8605/

My questions are: do you intend to fix this or do I need to switch to linux? what are your plans with SinusBot for Windows?

cheers

 

[MauriceR]

You can just use the Windows Version of yt-dlp no need to switch to Linux for that

 

[banananex]

I just tried it and this is what I get:

could not decode downloader output: json: cannot unmarshal number 48.968 into Go struct field YTDLFormat.abr of type int

I put the following into my config.ini:

YoutubeDLPath = "C:\\SinusBot\\youtube-dl\\yt-dlp.exe"

That's the same from almost 1 year go

https://forum.sinusbot.com/threads/issue-with-the-latest-youtube-dl.8514/post-49608

 

[MauriceR]

Try using an older version, looks like they "broke" the newest version just like last year

 

[banananex]

older version of sinusbot or yt-dlp?

 

[MauriceR]

Older version of yt-dlp

 

[banananex]

Been testing about 10 versions from early 2021 to today. None of them work unfortunately.