Crash on trying to open app

[opusforlife2]

Before going further

• [x] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
• [x] I've verified and i assure that I'm running yt-dlg 1.8.5
• [x] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
• [x] Searched bugtracker
• [x] I've read the FAQs file

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What is the purpose of your issue?

• [x] Bug report

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Bug report

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 7

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. Try to open the app.

What is the expected behaviour ?

The app should open.

What happens instead ?

Two different error popups.

First:

System error (Windows dialog) - The program can't start because api-ms-win-cre-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

^ This error usually shows for me when an app has Win10 as the minimum version. But I've read other issues and this doesn't seem to be the case here.

Second:

Fatal error detected (yt-dlg dialog) -

Error loading Python DLL. "%appdata%\Local\Temp[foldername]\python310.dll" LoadLibrary: The specified module could not be found.

^ This error doesn't make sense to me because I have Python 3.8 installed (the last version to support Win7), and yt-dlg has always worked before this.

Also, why is it looking for a DLL inside a temp folder?

[oleksis]

The yt-dlg binaries for Windows use PyInstaller. The version 1.8.5 use Python 3.10 for 64 bit architecture

If you want use your Python 3.8 , one option is install yt-dlg from PyPI

[opusforlife2]

Ah. Thanks for the info.

yt-dlg is one of the packages I install using Chocolatey for easier maintenance. Is it possible to have an install parameter that safely swaps in dependency on the 3.8 version of Python instead of 3.10?

[oleksis]

yt-dlg from PyPI is compatible from Python 3.8 to Python 3.11

pip install yt-dlg

[opusforlife2]

Alright then. Thanks!