Windows .exe dont start

[YannisHeine]

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I Downloaded the youtube-dl.exe on my Windows Server 2012 i have python 2.7 installed.

When i want now download a Video (over commandline) i get an error by Windows that the Application was not success to start with error code (0x000007d) and than nothing happen
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[dstftw]

Post the log of what you enter and what you get as output.

[YannisHeine]

I open command line and type youtube-dl.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch....
http://prnt.sc/crdgjg

Than i get this errors
http://prnt.sc/crdgrr (this says there was an erro with the Application)
http://prnt.sc/crdgxa

[dstftw]

Post the output of where youtube-dl.exe.

[YannisHeine]

http://prntscr.com/crdkju
"C:\SinusBot\youtube-dl.exe"

[dstftw]

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) installed?

[YannisHeine]

Yes

[dstftw]

Post the output of where msvcr100.dll.

[YannisHeine]

"C:\Windows\System32\msvcr100.dll"

[StevenDTX]

There are a thousands reasons you could get a 0x000007d. Have you deleted, and re-downloaded youtube-dl.exe?

Since you are on WS2012, you have powershell. Try this:

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/download/2016.10.07/youtube-dl.exe" -OutFile C:\SinusBot\youtube-dl.exe

[dstftw]

Post the output of certutil -hashfile youtube-dl.exe md5.

[YannisHeine]

Yes i deleted and redownloaded it but it do not change anything

[YannisHeine]

certutil -hashfile youtube-dl.exe md5 ->

ff 22 5e 66 3b d4 45 6a 6b 4a 14 54 02 9d cd 9c (http://prntscr.com/crdrk1)

[dstftw]

Are you able to run any exe from cmd at all?

[StevenDTX]

If you right-click on the file, and click properties, does it have an "unblock" button?

[YannisHeine]

yes i can run other .exe

[YannisHeine]

No no "unblock" button

[YannisHeine]

I have now take a look at the Windows error Message

But it´s say nothing for me

Problem Signature:
Problem event name: APPCRASH
Application name: youtube-dl.exe
Application version: 2016.10.7.0
Application time stamp: 54467a4f
Error module name: ntdll.dll
Error module version: 6.3.9600.17415
Error module time stamp: 54504b0d
Exception code: c000007b
Exception offset: 000a36e5
Operating system version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.400.8
Area ID: 1031
Additional Information 1: 1abe
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional information 3: 1abe
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

[Hrxn]

Hm..

If you use where .. try it from a different location, or another drive (D:, E:..), otherwise it won't test if PATH is really working properly.

Without really looking deeper into this, I'd say that is the typical runtime error.

If you use an 64-bit Windows, you could also try to run this:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632

In addition to this:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555

If nothing else helps, there is another C++ 2010 runtime package
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328

[dstftw]

Different redists won't have any effect since youtube-dl only depends on 2010 x86.

[YannisHeine]

I try the where from other drive and it link correctly

[YannisHeine]

i also installed the other C++ Redistributable but nothing changed

[Hrxn]

Okay, then it is not the typical runtime error. Windows Server shouldn't be an issue, either. So I guess there is something more wrong with your OS..

[YannisHeine]

hmm okay thank you for help ... so than i will create a hyper-v vm with linux...

[yan12125]

You can also install Python 2.6+ or 3.2+ from www.python.org, download the Unix version of youtube-dl and run python.exe youtube-dl. If python.exe runs fine but youtube-dl.exe not, come back and report it. If python.exe fails too, you may want to go to https://bugs.python.org/ and ask Python gurus.

[YannisHeine]

I am sry i found no time until now.

So the Python version did not change anything.

But python.exe youtube-dl worked fine thank you :)

[yan12125]

Thanks for the feedback. What's your python version? (i.e. the output of python.exe --version)

[YannisHeine]

Python 2.7.12

[LeoRiether]

Seems like this hasn't been updated for a while now, is this still an issue or should we close it?

[Hrxn]

Close it.