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2021.04.22
- Improve output template:
- Objects can be traversed like
%(field.key1.key2)s - An offset can be added to numeric fields as
%(field+N)s - Deprecates
--autonumber-start
- Objects can be traversed like
- Improve
--sub-langs:- Treat
--sub-langsentries as regex allcan be used to refer to all the subtitles- language codes can be prefixed with
-to exclude it - Deprecates
--all-subs
- Treat
- Add option
--ignore-no-formats-errorto ignore the "no video format" and similar errors - Add option
--skip-playlist-after-errorsto skip the rest of a playlist after a given number of errors are encountered - Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/7e8b3f9
- [downloader] Fix bug in downloader selection
- [BilibiliChannel] Fix pagination by nao20010128nao andpukkandan
- [rai] Add support for http formats by nixxo
- [TubiTv] Add TubiTvShowIE by Ashish0804
- [twitcasting] Fix extractor
- [viu:ott] Fix extractor and support series by lkho andpukkandan
- [youtube:tab] Show unavailable videos in playlists by colethedj
- [youtube:tab] Reload with unavailable videos for all playlists
- [youtube] Ignore invalid stretch ratio
- [youtube] Improve channel syncid extraction to support ytcfg by colethedj
- [youtube] Standardize API calls for tabs, mixes and search by colethedj
- [youtube] Bugfix in
_extract_ytcfg - [mildom:user:vod] Download only necessary amount of pages
- [mildom] Remove proxy completely by fstirlitz
- [go] Fix
_VALID_URL - [MetadataFromField] Improve regex and add tests
- [Exec] Ensure backward compatibility when the command contains
% - [extractor] Fix inconsistent use of
report_warning - Ensure
mergeallselects best format when multistreams are disabled - Improve the yt-dlp.sh script by fstirlitz
- [lazy_extractor] Do not load plugins
- [ci] Disable fail-fast
- [documentation] Clarify which deprecated options still work
- [documentation] Fix typos
2021.04.11
- Add option
--convert-thumbnails(only jpg currently supported) - Format selector
mergeallto download and merge all formats - Pass any field to
--execusing similar syntax to output template - Choose downloader for each protocol using
--downloader PROTO:NAME- Alias
--downloaderfor--external-downloader - Added
nativeas an option for the downloader
- Alias
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/4fb25ff (except vimeo)
- [DiscoveryPlusIndia] Add DiscoveryPlusIndiaShowIE by Ashish0804
- [NFHSNetwork] Add extractor by llacb47
- [nebula] Add extractor (watchnebula.com) by hheimbuerger
- [nitter] Fix extraction of reply tweets and update instance list by B0pol
- [nitter] Fix thumbnails by B0pol
- [youtube] Fix thumbnail URL
- [youtube] Parse API parameters from initial webpage by colethedj
- [youtube] Extract comments' approximate timestamp by colethedj
- [youtube] Fix alert extraction
- [bilibili] Fix uploader
- [utils] Add
datetime_from_stranddatetime_add_monthsby colethedj - Run some
postprocessorsbefore actual download - Improve argument parsing for
-P,-o,-S - Fix some
m3u8not obeying--allow-unplayable-formats - Fix default of
dynamic_mpd - Deprecate
--all-formats,--include-ads,--hls-prefer-native,--hls-prefer-ffmpeg - [documentation] Improvements
2021.04.03
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/654b4f4
- Ability to set a specific field in the file's metadata using
--parse-metadata - Ability to select n'th best format like
-f bv*.2 - [DiscoveryPlus] Add discoveryplus.in
- [la7] Add podcasts and podcast playlists by nixxo
- [mildom] Update extractor with current proxy by nao20010128nao
- [ard:mediathek] Fix video id extraction
- [generic] Detect Invidious' link element
- [youtube] Show premium state in
availabilityby colethedj - [viewsource] Add extractor to handle
view-source: - [sponskrub] Run before embedding thumbnail
- [documentation] Improve
--parse-metadatadocumentation
2021.03.24.1
- Revert commit/8562218
2021.03.24
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.03.25 (commit/8562218)
- Parse metadata from multiple fields using
--parse-metadata - Ability to load playlist infojson using
--load-info-json - Write current epoch to infojson when using
--no-clean-infojson - [youtube_live_chat] fix bug when trying to set cookies
- [niconico] Fix for when logged in by CXwudi and xtkoba
- [linuxacadamy] Fix login
2021.03.21
-
Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/7e79ba7
-
Option
--no-clean-infojsonto keep private keys in the infojson -
[aria2c] Support retry/abort unavailable fragments by damianoamatruda
-
[aria2c] Better default arguments
-
[movefiles] Fix bugs and make more robust
-
[formatSort] Fix
qualitybeing ignored -
[splitchapters] Fix for older ffmpeg
-
[sponskrub] Pass proxy to sponskrub
-
Make sure
post_hookgets the final filename -
Recursively remove any private keys from infojson
-
Embed video URL metadata inside
mp4by damianoamatruda and pukkandan -
Merge
webmformats intomkvif thumbnails are to be embedded by damianoamatruda -
Use headers and cookies when downloading subtitles by damianoamatruda
-
Parse resolution in info dictionary by damianoamatruda
-
More consistent warning messages by damianoamatruda and pukkandan
-
[documentation] Add deprecated options and aliases in readme
-
[documentation] Fix some minor mistakes
-
[niconico] Partial fix adapted from animelover1984/youtube-dl@b5eff52 (login and smile formats still don't work)
-
[niconico] Add user extractor by animelover1984
-
[bilibili] Add anthology support by animelover1984
-
[amcnetworks] Fix extractor by 2ShedsJackson
-
[stitcher] Merge from youtube-dl by nixxo
-
[rcs] Improved extraction by nixxo
-
[linuxacadamy] Improve regex
-
[youtube] Show if video is
private,unlistedetc in info (availability) by colethedj and pukkandan -
[youtube] bugfix for channel playlist extraction
-
[nbc] Improve metadata extraction by 2ShedsJackson
2021.03.15
- Split video by chapters: using option
--split-chapters- The output file of the split files can be set with
-o/-Pusing the prefixchapter: - Additional keys
section_title,section_number,section_start,section_endare available in the output template
- The output file of the split files can be set with
- Parallel fragment downloads by shirt
- Use option
--concurrent-fragments(-N) to set the number of threads (default 1)
- Use option
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/3be0980
- [zee5] Add Show Extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
- [rai] fix drm check nixxo
- [wimtv] Add extractor by nixxo
- [mtv] Add mtv.it and extract series metadata by nixxo
- [pluto.tv] Add extractor by kevinoconnor7
- [youtube] Rewrite comment extraction by colethedj
- [embedthumbnail] Set mtime correctly
- Refactor some postprocessor/downloader code by pukkandan and shirt
2021.03.07
- [youtube] Fix history, mixes, community pages and trending by pukkandan and colethedj
- [youtube] Fix private feeds/playlists on multi-channel accounts by colethedj
- [youtube] Extract alerts from continuation by colethedj
- [cbs] Add support for ParamountPlus by shirt
- [mxplayer] Rewrite extractor with show support by pukkandan and Ashish0804
- [gedi] Improvements from youtube-dl by nixxo
- [vimeo] Fix videos with password by teesid
- [lbry] Support
lbry://url by nixxo - [bilibili] Change
Acceptheader by pukkandan and animelover1984 - [trovo] Pass origin header
- [rai] Check for DRM by nixxo
- [downloader] Fix bug for
ffmpeg/httpie - [update] Fix updater removing the executable bit on some UNIX distros
- [update] Fix current build hash for UNIX
- [documentation] Include wget/curl/aria2c install instructions for Unix by Ashish0804
- Fix some videos downloading with
m3u8extension - Remove "fixup is ignored" warning when fixup wasn't passed by user
2021.03.03.2
- [build] Fix bug
2021.03.03
- [youtube] Use new browse API for continuation page extraction by colethedj and pukkandan
- Fix HLS playlist downloading by shirt
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.03.03
- [mtv] Fix extractor
- [nick] Fix extractor by DennyDai
- [mxplayer] Add new extractor by codeasashu
- [youtube] Throw error when
--extractor-retriesare exhausted - Reduce default of
--extractor-retriesto 3 - Fix packaging bugs by hseg
2021.03.01
- Allow specifying path in
--external-downloader - Add option
--sleep-requeststo sleep b/w requests - Add option
--extractor-retriesto retry on known extractor errors - Extract comments only when needed
--get-commentsdoesn't imply--write-info-jsonif-J,-jor--print-jsonare used- Fix
get_executable_pathby shirt - [youtube] Retry on more known errors than just HTTP-5xx
- [youtube] Fix inconsistent
webpage_url - [tennistv] Fix format sorting
- [bilibiliaudio] Recognize the file as audio-only
- [hrfensehen] Fix wrong import
- [viki] Fix viki play pass authentication by RobinD42
- [readthedocs] Improvements by shirt
- [hls] Fix bug with m3u8 format extraction
- [hls] Enable
--hls-use-mpegtsby default when downloading live-streams - [embedthumbnail] Fix bug with deleting original thumbnail
- [build] Fix completion paths, zsh pip completion install by hseg
- [ci] Disable download tests unless specifically invoked
- Cleanup some code and fix typos
2021.02.24
- Moved project to an organization yt-dlp
- Completely changed project name to yt-dlp by Pccode66 and pukkandan
- Also,
youtube-dlcconfig files are no longer loaded
- Also,
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/4460329 (except tmz, gedi)
- Readthedocs support by shirt
- [youtube] Show if video was a live stream in info (
was_live) - [Zee5] Add new extractor by Ashish0804 and pukkandan
- [jwplatform] Add support for
hyland.com - [tennistv] Fix extractor
- [hls] Support media initialization by shirt
- [hls] Added options
--hls-split-discontinuityto better support media discontinuity by shirt - [ffmpeg] Allow passing custom arguments before -i using
--ppa "ffmpeg_i1:ARGS"syntax - Fix
--windows-filenamesremoving/from UNIX paths - [hls] Show warning if pycryptodome is not found
- [documentation] Improvements
- Fix documentation of
Extractor Options - Document
allin format selection - Document
playable_in_embedin output templates
- Fix documentation of
2021.02.19
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto commit/cf2dbec (except kakao)
- [viki] Fix extractor
- [niconico] Extract
channelandchannel_idby kurumigi - [youtube] Multiple page support for hashtag URLs
- [youtube] Add more invidious instances
- [youtube] Fix comment extraction when comment text is empty
- Option
--windows-filenamesto force use of windows compatible filenames - [ExtractAudio] Bugfix
- Don't raise
parser.errorwhen exiting for update - [MoveFiles] Fix for when merger can't run
- Changed
--trim-file-nameto--trim-filenamesto be similar to related options - Format Sort improvements:
- Prefer
vp9.2more than othervp9codecs - Remove forced priority of
quality - Remove unnecessary
field_preferenceand misuse ofpreferencefrom extractors
- Prefer
- Build improvements:
- [documentation] Better document
--prefer-free-formatsand add--no-prefer-free-format
2021.02.15
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.10 (except archive.org)
- [niconico] Improved extraction and support encrypted/SMILE movies by kurumigi, tsukumi, bbepis, pukkandan
- Fix HLS AES-128 with multiple keys in external downloaders by shirt
- [youtube_live_chat] Fix by using POST API by siikamiika
- [rumble] Add support for video page
- Option
--allow-unplayable-formatsto allow downloading unplayable video formats - [ExtractAudio] Don't re-encode when file is already in a common audio format
- [youtube] Fix search continuations
- [youtube] Fix for new accounts
- Improve build/updater: by pukkandan and shirt
- Fix SHA256 calculation in build and implement hash checking for updater
- Exit immediately in windows once the update process starts
- Fix updater for
x86.exe - Updater looks for both
yt-dlpandyoutube-dlcin releases for future-proofing - Change optional dependency to
pycryptodome
- Fix issue with unicode filenames in aria2c by shirt
- Fix
allow_playlist_filesnot being correctly passed through - Fix for empty HTTP head requests by shirt
- Fix
get_executable_pathin UNIX - [sponskrub] Print ffmpeg output and errors to terminal
__real_downloadshould be false when ffmpeg unavailable and no download- Show
exe/zip/sourceand 32/64bit in verbose message
2021.02.09
- aria2c support for DASH/HLS: by shirt
- Implement Updater (
-U) by shirt - [youtube] Fix comment extraction
- [youtube_live_chat] Improve extraction
- [youtube] Fix for channel URLs sometimes not downloading all pages
- [aria2c] Changed default arguments to
--console-log-level=warn --summary-interval=0 --file-allocation=none -x16 -j16 -s16 - Add fallback for thumbnails
- [embedthumbnail] Keep original thumbnail after conversion if write_thumbnail given
- [embedsubtitle] Keep original subtitle after conversion if write_subtitles given
- [pyinst.py] Move back to root dir
- [youtube] Simplified renderer parsing and bugfixes
- [movefiles] Fix compatibility with python2
- [remuxvideo] Fix validation of conditional remux
- [sponskrub] Don't raise error when the video does not exist
- [documentation] Crypto is an optional dependency
2021.02.04
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.02.04.1
- Date/time formatting in output template:
- You can use
strftimeto format date/time fields. Example:%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s
- You can use
- Multiple output templates:
- Separate output templates can be given for the different metadata files by using
-o TYPE:TEMPLATE - The allowed types are:
subtitle|thumbnail|description|annotation|infojson|pl_description|pl_infojson
- Separate output templates can be given for the different metadata files by using
- [youtube] More metadata extraction for channel/playlist URLs (channel, uploader, thumbnail, tags)
- New option
--no-write-playlist-metafilesto prevent writing playlist metadata files - [audius] Fix extractor
- [youtube_live_chat] Fix
parse_yt_initial_dataand addfragment_retries - [postprocessor] Raise errors correctly
- [metadatafromtitle] Fix bug when extracting data from numeric fields
- Fix issue with overwriting files
- Fix "Default format spec" appearing in quiet mode
- [FormatSort] Allow user to prefer av01 over vp9 (The default is still vp9)
- [FormatSort] fix bug where
qualityhad more priority thanhasvid - [pyinst] Automatically detect python architecture and working directory
- Strip out internal fields such as
_filenamefrom infojson
2021.01.29
- Features from animelover1984/youtube-dl: by animelover1984 and bbepis
- Add
--get-comments - [youtube] Extract comments
- [billibilli] Added BiliBiliSearchIE, BilibiliChannelIE
- [billibilli] Extract comments
- [billibilli] Better video extraction
- Write playlist data to infojson
- [FFmpegMetadata] Embed infojson inside the video
- [EmbedThumbnail] Try embedding in mp4 using ffprobe and
-disposition - [EmbedThumbnail] Treat mka like mkv and mov like mp4
- [EmbedThumbnail] Embed in ogg/opus
- [VideoRemuxer] Conditionally remux video
- [VideoRemuxer] Add
-movflags +faststartwhen remuxing to mp4 - [ffmpeg] Print entire stderr in verbose when there is error
- [EmbedSubtitle] Warn when embedding ass in mp4
- [anvato] Use NFLTokenGenerator if possible
- Add
- Parse additional metadata: New option
--parse-metadatato extract additional metadata from existing fields- The extracted fields can be used in
--output - Deprecated
--metadata-from-title
- The extracted fields can be used in
- [Audius] Add extractor
- [youtube] Extract playlist description and write it to
.descriptionfile - Detect existing files even when using
recode/remux(extract-audiois partially fixed) - Fix wrong user config from v2021.01.24
- [youtube] Report error message from youtube as error instead of warning
- [FormatSort] Fix some fields not sorting from v2021.01.24
- [postprocessor] Deprecate
avconv/avprobe. All current functionality is left untouched. But don't expect any new features to work with avconv - [postprocessor] fix
write_debugto not throw error when there is no_downloader - [movefiles] Don't give "cant find" warning when move is unnecessary
- Refactor
update-version,pyinst.pyand related files - [ffmpeg] Document more formats that are supported for remux/recode
2021.01.24
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.24
- Plugin support (documentation)
- Multiple paths: New option
-P/--pathsto give different paths for different types of files- The syntax is
-P "type:path" -P "type:path"(documentation) - Valid types are: home, temp, description, annotation, subtitle, infojson, thumbnail
- Additionally, configuration file is taken from home directory or current directory (documentation)
- The syntax is
- Allow passing different arguments to different external downloaders (documentation)
- [mildom] Add extractor by nao20010128nao
- Warn when using old style
--external-downloader-argsand--post-processor-args - Fix
--no-overwritewhen using--write-link - [sponskrub] Output
unrecognized argumenterror message correctly - [cbs] Make failure to extract title non-fatal
- Fix typecasting when pre-checking archive
- Fix issue with setting title on UNIX
- Deprecate redundant aliases in
formatSort. The aliases remain functional for backward compatibility, but will be left undocumented - [tests] Fix test_post_hooks
- [tests] Split core and download tests
2021.01.20
- [TrovoLive] Add extractor (only VODs)
- [pokemon] Add
/#/playerURLs - Improved parsing of multiple postprocessor-args, add
--ppaas alias - [EmbedThumbnail] Simplify embedding in mkv
- [sponskrub] Encode filenames correctly, better debug output and error message
- [readme] Cleanup options
2021.01.16
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.16
- Configuration files:
- Portable configuration file:
./yt-dlp.conf - Allow the configuration files to be named
yt-dlpinstead ofyoutube-dlc. See this for details
- Portable configuration file:
- Add PyPI release
2021.01.14
- Added option
--break-on-reject - [roosterteeth.com] Fix for bonus episodes by Zocker1999NET
- [tiktok] Fix for when share_info is empty
- [EmbedThumbnail] Fix bug due to incorrect function name
- [documentation] Changed sponskrub links to point to yt-dlp/SponSkrub since I am now providing both linux and windows releases
- [documentation] Change all links to correctly point to new fork URL
- [documentation] Fixes typos
2021.01.12
- [roosterteeth.com] Add subtitle support by samiksome
- Added
--force-overwrites,--no-force-overwritesby alxnull - Changed fork name to
yt-dlp - Fix typos by FelixFrog
- [ci] Option to skip
- [changelog] Added unreleased changes in blackjack4494/yt-dlc
2021.01.10
- [archive.org] Fix extractor and add support for audio and playlists by wporr
- [Animelab] Added by mariuszskon
- [youtube:search] Fix view_count by ohnonot
- [youtube] Show if video is embeddable in info (
playable_in_embed) - Update version badge automatically in README
- Enable
test_youtube_search_matching - Create
to_screenand similar functions in postprocessor/common
2021.01.09
- [youtube] Fix bug in automatic caption extraction
- Add
post_hooksto YoutubeDL by alexmerkel - Batch file enumeration improvements by glenn-slayden
- Stop immediately when reaching
--max-downloadsby glenn-slayden - Fix incorrect ANSI sequence for restoring console-window title by glenn-slayden
- Kill child processes when yt-dlc is killed by Unrud
2021.01.08
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.08 except stitcher (1, 2)
- Moved changelog to separate file
2021.01.07-1
- [Akamai] fix by nixxo
- [Tiktok] merge youtube-dl tiktok extractor by GreyAlien502
- [vlive] add support for playlists by kyuyeunk
- [youtube_live_chat] make sure playerOffsetMs is positive by siikamiika
- Ignore extra data streams in ffmpeg by jbruchon
- Allow passing different arguments to different postprocessors using
--postprocessor-args - Deprecated
--sponskrub-args. The same can now be done using--postprocessor-args "sponskrub:<args>" - [CI] Split tests into core-test and full-test
2021.01.07
- Removed priority of
av01codec in-Ssince most devices don't support it yet - Added
duration_stringto be used in--output - Created First Release
2021.01.05-1
- Changed defaults:
- Enabled
--ignore - Disabled
--video-multistreamsand--audio-multistreams - Changed default format selection to
bv*+ba/bwhen--audio-multistreamsis disabled - Changed default format sort order to
res,fps,codec,size,br,asr,proto,ext,has_audio,source,format_id - Changed
webmto be more preferable thanflvin format sorting - Changed default output template to
%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s - Enabled
--list-formats-as-table
- Enabled
2021.01.05
- Format Sort: Added
--format-sort(-S),--format-sort-force(--S-force) - See Sorting Formats for details - Format Selection: See Format Selection for details
- New format selectors:
best*,worst*,bestvideo*,bestaudio*,worstvideo*,worstaudio* - Changed video format sorting to show video only files and video+audio files together.
- Added
--video-multistreams,--no-video-multistreams,--audio-multistreams,--no-audio-multistreams - Added
b,w,v,aas alias forbest,worst,videoandaudiorespectively
- New format selectors:
- Shortcut Options: Added
--write-link,--write-url-link,--write-webloc-link,--write-desktop-linkby h-h-h-h - See Internet Shortcut Options for details - Sponskrub integration: Added
--sponskrub,--sponskrub-cut,--sponskrub-force,--sponskrub-location,--sponskrub-args- See SponSkrub Options for details - Added
--force-download-archive(--force-write-archive) by h-h-h-h - Added
--list-formats-as-table,--list-formats-old - Negative Options: Makes it possible to negate most boolean options by adding a
no-to the switch. Usefull when you want to reverse an option that is defined in a config file- Added
--no-ignore-dynamic-mpd,--no-allow-dynamic-mpd,--allow-dynamic-mpd,--youtube-include-hls-manifest,--no-youtube-include-hls-manifest,--no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest,--no-download,--no-download-archive,--resize-buffer,--part,--mtime,--no-keep-fragments,--no-cookies,--no-write-annotations,--no-write-info-json,--no-write-description,--no-write-thumbnail,--youtube-include-dash-manifest,--post-overwrites,--no-keep-video,--no-embed-subs,--no-embed-thumbnail,--no-add-metadata,--no-include-ads,--no-write-sub,--no-write-auto-sub,--no-playlist-reverse,--no-restrict-filenames,--youtube-include-dash-manifest,--no-format-sort-force,--flat-videos,--no-list-formats-as-table,--no-sponskrub,--no-sponskrub-cut,--no-sponskrub-force - Renamed:
--write-subs,--no-write-subs,--no-write-auto-subs,--write-auto-subs. Note that these can still be used without the ending "s"
- Added
- Relaxed validation for format filters so that any arbitrary field can be used
- Fix for embedding thumbnail in mp3 by pauldubois98 (ytdl-org/youtube-dl#21569)
- Make Twitch Video ID output from Playlist and VOD extractor same. This is only a temporary fix
- Merge youtube-dl: Upto 2021.01.03 - See blackjack4494/yt-dlc#280 for details
- Cleaned up the fork for public use
PS: All uncredited changes above this point are authored by pukkandan
Unreleased changes in blackjack4494/yt-dlc
- Updated to youtube-dl release 2020.11.26 by pukkandan
- Youtube improvements by pukkandan
- Implemented all Youtube Feeds (ytfav, ytwatchlater, ytsubs, ythistory, ytrec) and SearchURL
- Fix some improper Youtube URLs
- Redirect channel home to /video
- Print youtube's warning message
- Handle Multiple pages for feeds better
- [youtube] Fix ytsearch not returning results sometimes due to promoted content by colethedj
- [youtube] Temporary fix for automatic captions - disable json3 by blackjack4494
- Add --break-on-existing by gergesh
- Pre-check video IDs in the archive before downloading by pukkandan
- [bitwave.tv] New extractor by lorpus
- [Gedi] Add extractor by nixxo
- [Rcs] Add new extractor by nixxo
- [skyit] New skyitalia extractor by nixxo
- [france.tv] Fix thumbnail URL by renalid
- [ina] support mobile links by B0pol
- [instagram] Fix thumbnail extractor by nao20010128nao
- [SouthparkDe] Support for English URLs by xypwn
- [spreaker] fix SpreakerShowIE test URL by pukkandan
- [Vlive] Fix playlist handling when downloading a channel by kyuyeunk
- [tmz] Fix extractor by diegorodriguezv
- [generic] Detect embedded bitchute videos by pukkandan
- [generic] Extract embedded youtube and twitter videos by diegorodriguezv
- [ffmpeg] Ensure all streams are copied by pukkandan
- [embedthumbnail] Fix for os.rename error by pukkandan
- make_win.bat: don't use UPX to pack vcruntime140.dll by jbruchon