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* **Is it possible to use a youtube-dl version other than the official one?**:
* **Is it possible to use a youtube-dl version other than the official one?**:
You can use your own version of youtube-dl by editing the "youtubedl_path" option in your settings.json file and make it point to your own binary (e.g. /usr/local/bin). Note that if youtube-dl-gui does not have write permissions to this new directory the "update" option in the GUI will fail. Also, note that changing the "youtubedl_path" won't change the update source which is hardcoded for now to "https://yt-dl.org/latest/".
You can use your own version of youtube-dl by editing the "youtubedl_path" option in your settings.json file and make it point to your own binary (e.g. /usr/local/bin). Note that if youtube-dl-gui does not have write permissions to this new directory the "update" option in the GUI will fail. Also, note that changing the "youtubedl_path" won't change the update source which is hardcoded for now to "https://yt-dl.org/latest/".
* **The program crashes frequently (Windows):**
Follow [youtube-dl instructions](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#the-exe-throws-an-error-due-to-missing-msvcr100dll) on updating your Visual C++ Redistributable.
luigino
7 years ago