Cannot Download Videos

[Rexor26]

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• If your problem is a bug with youtube-dl or a request for new site support please report it here

• Make sure you are using the latest youtube-dl-gui version (Click the Settings icon and then About to view the current version)

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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
2. Go to Options > Extra tab
3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
5. Try to download the URL
6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below

There's nothing on the log content

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 10 64 bit

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. Copy and paste desired URL
2. Download
3. After few seconds of queuing, download status shows "error" at 0% and "download complete"

What is the expected behaviour ?

Video starts downloading (progress bar)

What happens instead ?

Status shows "error" and dialog box shows "download complete"

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 10 64 bit

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I tried downloading from Youtube, DailyMotion and even Pornhub (plus other sites). Results still the same.

[LittleDaoist]

Just tried downloading a couple of videos from youtube and it works.

[Efreak]

Confirmed on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

winver.exe screenshot

Youtube-DLG installer does set directory permisions, so it cannot access the default location for the log file (this should be changed), and therefore the log is empty.

log error screenshot

After creating an empty file and adding the correct permissions to it (to avoid this, create it elsewhere and then move it), the log window still refuses to display, and instead I get the following in the log file:

contents of youtube-dl-gui.exe.log

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.pyc", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "youtube_dl_gui\downloadmanager.pyc", line 599, in run
  File "youtube_dl_gui\downloaders.pyc", line 162, in download
  File "youtube_dl_gui\downloaders.pyc", line 337, in _create_process
  File "subprocess.pyc", line 390, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyc", line 640, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

[liamengland1]

This project is abandoned.

[Efreak]

well, if it helps anyone else, I can confirm that youtube-dl.exe isn't being downloaded correctly. Download youtube-dl.exe from the official site and save it to %appdata%\youtube-dlg\youtube-dl.exe, and it will work fine.

[coasterfr]

well, if it helps anyone else, I can confirm that youtube-dl.exe isn't being downloaded correctly. Download youtube-dl.exe from the official site and save it to %appdata%\youtube-dlg\youtube-dl.exe, and it will work fine.

thank you

[thirdwheel]

For future reference, I had to install the Visual C++ 2010 redistributables before it would work for me.