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AttributeError - 'STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW'

See original GitHub issue

I assure that my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
I’ve verified and I assure that I’m running youtube-dl-gui 0.3.8
I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
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What is the purpose of your issue?

Bug during the download process (encountered problems after hitting the Download button)

Provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to Options > Commands tab
Re-try to download the URL
Go to Options > Log tab and click the View Log button
Copy the whole content of the log file and insert it between the triple ``` part

the log is empty

Please remove the following section between the (—) if your problem does not belong to the first two categories (bug report)

What operating system do you use ?

Win XP SP3

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

py C:\gnu\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl_gui
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H22t-tiWiLw
clicking DOWNLOAD
nothing happens

What is the expected behaviour ?

the video should be downloaded

What happens instead ?

nothing, as seen in the screenshot below clipboard01

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information. Please make sure the description is worded well enough to be understood.

it won’t download anything and outputs this error in the cmd window. also, changes made to settings.json are being reset to default on startup.

Exception in thread Thread-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\gnu\Python27\lib\threading.py”, line 530, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File “C:\gnu\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl_gui\downloadmanager.py”, line 288, in run ret_code = self._downloader.download(self._data[‘url’], options) File “C:\gnu\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl_gui\downloaders.py”, line 162, in download self._create_process(cmd) File “C:\gnu\Python27\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl_gui\downloaders.py”, line 322, in _create_process info.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW’

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MrS0m30n3commented, Oct 4, 2016

What python version do you use ?

Also, i guess you installed youtube_dl_gui from the source using: python setup.py install? Why not use the Windows installer ?

The STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW attribute should be available.

One of the following is happening:

You use an outdated Python version, probably < 2.7.3
For some reason Python is not installed correctly
You have overwritten the subprocess.py file under C:\gnu\Python27\Lib

You can also run those two commands on cmd and paste the output here:

python -c "import subprocess; subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW" python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.__file__)"

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MrS0m30n3commented, Oct 5, 2016

@uahim you probably had an issue with the settings because of the crash or you were passing wrong values to the settings.json (if you tried to edit it).

Currently the latest Windows build (portable) is this one: link, which dates back to Feb 15, 2016

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