Youtube-dl-gui on Win7 and Win10

[Axel Slingerland]

Happy New Year Everyone!

I bought a Lenovo Laptop and I've been trying to set up Youtube-dl-gui on it and am having problems. When I set it up on my desktop PC with Windows 7 Home, I put the files in a folder named YouTube-DL (with the YouTube-DL files) under Program Files (x86), and added the files (and other necessary files such as ffmpeg, etc.) to the Windows system path. It works fine.

But the laptop has Windows 10 and I guess registering files for the system path is different or something because it's not working. I get this error message:

File code execution cannot proceed because MSVCR100.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

Also, the download dialog box for the program said ffmpeg wasn't found either. MSVCR100.dll was preinstalled on the laptop so I assumed it was set up properly, although it is rather old (dated 2/1/2002), and I put ffmpeg in the system32 folder. Reinstalling the program seemed unnecessary as there is no installation process.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing?

Thanks in advance...

[lomero]

first: you don't need a gui.
simply put yt-dl in any folder on your PC, open cmd from this folder and run

youtube-dl http://link

second: better have yt-dlp. more feature, and same behaviour of yt-dl

[darkw4v3]

I don't blame you for wanting a GUI. Doing this crap via command line is like living in the stone age. I wrote my own custom UI though. I don't trust any pre-compiled tools that are out there. The file it says you are missing is the Visual Studio 2010 Runtime library. I doubt it was pre-installed - although a lot of programs still use it - despite the fact it's older than dirt. At any rate, the 32 and 64 bit installers are still available from Microsoft - a quick google will give you the links. You may need to install the appropriate one (depending on your hardware architecture).

[pcspeak]

Hi.
Install this. Should fix your problem.
https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe

It's needed for youtube-dl.exe AND/OR yt-dlp.exe

yt-dlp.exe is the better way to go. It's a fork of youtube-dl.exe that has been updated more frequently in recent times.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/

Cheers

[Axel Slingerland]

first: you don't need a gui.

Unfortunately, I actually do. I have moderate low vision and using command line tools is frustrating at best.

I don't blame you for wanting a GUI. Doing this crap via command line is like living in the stone age.

Imagine living in the stone age with low vision... But I could still see pretty well back in the PC stone age. Which for me, was about 35 years ago.

I wrote my own custom UI though. I don't trust any pre-compiled tools that are out there.

In days gone by I would agree. But as I got older my vision became progressively worse. My Ophthalmologist says I can count on being legally blind in a few years. (Oh, joy!) And I have no programming skills, so I have to use whatever is available to the general public. I tested a bunch of different programs and youtube-dl-gui works best for me.

The file it says you are missing is the Visual Studio 2010 Runtime library. I doubt it was pre-installed - although a lot of programs still use it - despite the fact it's older than dirt.

Thanks for that... I found it and will give it a shot.

[pcspeak]

@Axel Slingerland

If you wish to try another gui.

I extracted the files from:
https://github.com/Maxstupo/ydl-ui/releases/download/v2.9.0/YDL-UI_v2.9.0.0_Portable.zip
I renamed my copy yt-dlp.exe to youtube-dl.exe and dropped it in the bin\ folder.
A download from SBS worked OK. No other testing. ymmv.
I then dropped my build of ffmpeg.exe in the bin\ffmpeg\ folder to see if post processing worked. It all went fine.
My build of ffmpeg is a small static compile and so all the libraries found in bin\ffmpeg\ are not needed.
Pretty much all users work with a static build; as I do in my batch file compilations.

This is one I have been trying out, over here. https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3q6p5669?p=34#r679

[Axel Slingerland]

I'm good, but thanks! The only thing I with was in youtube-dl-gui (that isn't already) is a pause button, but I can understand why there isn't one. However, I figured out that if you're part way through a download and need to stop it, most of the time you can just click on Cancel and when you start it up again with the same link, it will usually pick up where it left off. Sometimes it crashes, but over all it's a very stable program. At least for me, it has been.

[lomero]

try TVdownloader

[Axel Slingerland]

I use that once in awhile. Like youtube-dl-gui, it works for some things, and not others. The good thing is one of them might work when the other one doesn't.

[lomero]

the best thing for you would be to learn how to use pure yt-dl, at least the basic things. it's not that difficult.
and neglects yt-dl and uses yt-dlp instead. another world