Latest version completely fails to run, it looks like.

Checklist

• I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.04.08 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
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Description

So I upgraded just now. And the same command line that was running a minute ago now fails to download anything. Some file not found error. Not sure what it misses, it seems like some python files, which is strange, because it’s a static executable.

Verbose log

>"D:\Programok\videó\CLI\youtube-dl.exe" --no-playlist -o D:\Letöltés\%(title)s.%(ext)s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7d1DV0sFI
[debug] Command-line config: ['--no-playlist', '-o', 'D:\\Letöltés\\%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7d1DV0sFI']
[debug] Portable config "D:\Programok\videó\CLI\yt-dlp.conf": ['-f', '(bestvideo[vcodec^=av01]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9]/bestvideo[vcodec^=avc]/bestvideo[vcodec!=vp8])[height<=2160]+(258/256/bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio[acodec=vorbis]/bestaudio[acodec^=m4a]/bestaudio)/(best[vcodec^=av01]/best[vcodec=vp9]/best[vcodec^=avc]/best[vcodec!=vp8])[height<=1440]/best', '--verbose', '--video-password', 'PRIVATE', '--ignore-errors', '--write-description', '--write-sub', '--write-thumbnail', '--sub-lang', 'en,en-GB,en-US,en-CA,en-AU,en-NZ,hu', '--no-playlist', '--embed-metadata', '--embed-chapters', '--no-mtime', '-o', '.\\%(title)s.%(ext)s']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "yt_dlp\__init__.pyc", line 869, in main
  File "yt_dlp\__init__.pyc", line 830, in _real_main
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.pyc", line 667, in __init__
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.pyc", line 3743, in _setup_opener
  File "yt_dlp\utils.pyc", line 1027, in make_HTTPS_handler
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[gamer191]

@mzso I have 3 questions for you:

1. How did you downgrade to yt-dlp 2022.03.08.1
2. if you still have the exe that gave the above error, can you please run it with --compat-options no-certifi --verbose
3. if you update back to the latest version, does it still break? If yes, can you please run it with --verbose and send the logs, and then run it again with --compat-options no-certifi --verbose and send the logs?

No I think I was using the full exe. How is the “min” different?

yt-dlp_min.exe is the py2exe build. It is faster, but has known issues, which is why it isn’t recommended

PS: I will most likely not respond to your reply to this message, until Friday

[mzso]

It seems like with yt-dlp 2022.03.08.1 it still works. The download from Youtube is excruciatingly slow though.