#1116·persepolis

Program crashes when trying to download video from YouTube

Author: crispydoomsetupCreated Mar 10, 2026Updated Apr 3, 2026

As the title states, when trying to download a video from YouTube, the program freezes.

error
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/persepolis/scripts/download_link.py", line 42, in run
    self.download_session.start()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/persepolis/scripts/ytdlp_downloader.py", line 440, in start
    self.process.start()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/process.py", line 121, in start
    self._popen = self._Popen(self)
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/context.py", line 224, in _Popen
    return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/context.py", line 300, in _Popen
    return Popen(process_obj)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/popen_forkserver.py", line 35, in __init__
    super().__init__(process_obj)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py", line 20, in __init__
    self._launch(process_obj)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/popen_forkserver.py", line 47, in _launch
    reduction.dump(process_obj, buf)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 60, in dump
    ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
TypeError: cannot pickle 'MainWindow' object
when serializing dict item 'main_window'
when serializing persepolis.scripts.ytdlp_downloader.Ytdp_Download state
when serializing persepolis.scripts.ytdlp_downloader.Ytdp_Download object
when serializing tuple item 0
when serializing method reconstructor arguments
when serializing method object
when serializing dict item '_target'
when serializing multiprocessing.context.Process state
when serializing multiprocessing.context.Process object

This is what pops up in the console when it happens. I'm using Fedora Linux KDE 64-bit and have the latest available version of yt-dlp provided by my distro (2026.03.03).