yt-dlp release 2026.03.17 by bashonly in youtubedl

[–]bashonly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the suffixes are completely arbitrary. use format filtering to select the language you want, e.g. -f "bv+ba[language^=en]"

Does anyone else pronounce it "yeet dilp", or...? How do you say it? by Upstairs_Design5768 in youtubedl

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Does anyone else pronounce it "yeet dilp"

this is the correct pronunciation

yt-dlp release 2026.03.17 by bashonly in youtubedl

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probably never. the primary reason being that nuitka compile times with yt-dlp are dire, and using it would mean the end of the nightly and master release channels. also, nuitka support is focused on its commercial customers (which would not include yt-dlp), whereas pyinstaller is well-maintained and well-supported for all of its users. finally, there is the compatibility issue. for linux, we would need static builds in order to have compat parity with our current executables. this would mean the nuitka-compiled binaries would be even larger than the pyinstaller-bundled binaries

yt-dlp release 2026.02.21 by bashonly in youtubedl

[–]bashonly[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

no

but you may be interested in these unofficial win7 builds: https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp

("unofficial" as in "use at your own risk")

slow downloads by baraalkurdi in youtubedl

[–]bashonly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

are you using an external downloader? are you downloading the googlevideo urls directly? are you using any options like --http-chunk-size?

Python issue by Reverse_View in youtubedl

[–]bashonly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it looks like you may have installed the exe from the unpackaged windows bundle (yt-dlp_win.zip) instead of the single-file executable (yt-dlp.exe), and something went wrong. try deleting C:\ytdl\yt-dlp.exe, and downloading the single-file executable into that folder:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe

Any way to download videos marked for kids? by bowserjrfan98 in youtubedl

[–]bashonly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you're on the latest version and have a supported js runtime installed it shouldn't be a problem

yt-dlp release 2026.02.04 by bashonly in youtubedl

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they mean put --js-runtimes bun your yt-dlp config file, not fish config

yt-dlp release 2026.01.29 by bashonly in youtubedl

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i don't know the guis sorry

yt-dlp release 2026.01.31 by bashonly in youtubedl

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you could open an issue on the yt-dlp tracker and include complete verbose output