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jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
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"Please restart the app and disable antivirus" error #362

Open ethrea opened 2 years ago

ethrea commented 2 years ago

I get the message "Please restart the app and disable antivirus." when trying to put in any link. Message persists even when any anti virus & firewall is off. Didn't have the problem before, but just got a fresh install of windows on a new pc, so could be something in windows hiding away.

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anothermelon commented 2 years ago

having the same issue!

ericmp33 commented 2 years ago

Having the same issue here! image

And yeah, I tried to restart the app and disable my antivirus several times. Also tried restarting the computer and reinstalling the program :/

FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 commented 2 years ago

I found a solution:

  1. First, download the YT-DLP Binary from the following address: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe

  2. Open Run (Windows Key + R) and in the dialog box, paste the below: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Programs\youtube-dl-gui\resources\app.asar.unpacked\binaries and then hit Enter key or OK Button.

  3. Now navigate to the YT-DLP download folder and copy the downloaded file (from Step 1) and Paste the file into the folder we just opened in Step 2. Make sure the filename stays/is "yt-dlp"(.exe)

Restart the application and now it should work! 🚀

For some reason, a fresh installation doesn't seem to install this binary and the update check too fails to observe that the file is missing.

cc: @ericmp33 @ArchemedIan @anothermelon @ethrea @itscaro

qabRieL99 commented 2 years ago

Yes, this fixes it. Thanks. But still needs an update.

wuwendell commented 2 years ago

Yep, it just seems like that yt-dlp.exe is not downloaded on a fresh install.

richardsondev commented 2 years ago

Thank you @FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 for sharing the solution to get it running again!

I took a deeper look and it appears GitHub made some changes recently in the release download flow. This has broken the automatic download of yt-dlp here. I have opened a PR to update the logic: #375

nguyenvinhlinh commented 2 years ago

Thank you!

JukeStuff commented 1 year ago

Great This worked :)

MM12300 commented 8 months ago

@FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 procedure working but then Error? Unhandled error. Missing ffmpeg.

FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 commented 8 months ago

@FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 procedure working but then Error? Unhandled error. Missing ffmpeg.

Try reinstalling the app? Make sure you have ffmpeg present in install directory or in any subdirectory. I don't use this app anymore so I'm not sure if something's broken.

guyster104 commented 6 months ago

I have a question. I have the open video downloader portable exe. Do I need to create the folders mentioned in the solution, or where can I put the youtube-dlp binary for it to work? I don't see anywhere in settings to specify the path. Thanks in advance for your help.

guyster104 commented 6 months ago

Also, is 2.4.0 still newest version?

himyjan commented 4 days ago

I found a solution:

  1. First, download the YT-DLP Binary from the following address: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe
  2. Open Run (Windows Key + R) and in the dialog box, paste the below: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Programs\youtube-dl-gui\resources\app.asar.unpacked\binaries and then hit Enter key or OK Button.
  3. Now navigate to the YT-DLP download folder and copy the downloaded file (from Step 1) and Paste the file into the folder we just opened in Step 2. Make sure the filename stays/is "yt-dlp"(.exe)

Restart the application and now it should work! 🚀

For some reason, a fresh installation doesn't seem to install this binary and the update check too fails to observe that the file is missing.

cc: @ericmp33 @ArchemedIan @anothermelon @ethrea @itscaro

https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui/releases

or

command line version https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui/issues/354#issuecomment-1127269708