Youtube-dl Daily Builds

[githottub]

• [x] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
• [x] I've verified and i assure that I'm running yt-dlg 1.X.Y
• [x] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
• [x] Searched bugtracker
• [x] I've read the FAQs file

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Using version 1.8.5 on Windows 10 22H2 64 bit.

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Although you can still select youtube-dl as the CLI-backend in options, is it still actually supported by this app? For example, I replaced the original outdated version of youtube-dl with the latest daily build from:

https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases

However, even when trying to download a video from Youtube (which should be no problem AND is no problem if yt-dlp is selected in options) it always produces an error. Again, since I replaced the original youtube-dl.exe with the latest daily, it is not outdated and therefore should work to d/l a Youtube video. Since it's not working, but since using yt-dlp is working, I'm here to ask if your software is still actually supporting youtube-dl?

FYI: The reason I'm trying to get this working is because I expect a fix (which I need to d/l from another website) to get merged into youtube-dl daily before a similar fix gets into yt-dlp daily. There are some contributors that refuse to push PRs to yt-dlp therefore some issues will continue to get fixed sometimes much sooner in the daily builds of youtube-dl... so it would be helpful if this software could continue working with it as the CLI-backend. Thank you!

[oleksis]

Can read this comment and see where the CLI Backends saved. youtube-dl/yt-dlp use similar API, in case your use other backend or patching one, test if work but we make the development and the test with the official upstream youtube-dl and the fork yt-dls