closes Syncplay#585 syncplay spawns mpv as a subprocess, inheriting its env. mpv in turn spawns yt-dlp, and this inherits PYTHONHOME / PYTHONPATH pointing at syncplay's bundled python, making any python change where it looks for its stdlib, causing it to crash with `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'`. I do not fully understand why the old code did things the way it did, but it appears as if it attempted to work around this by hardcoding PATH (questionable) to "common" (and incomplete) locations, then doing a peculiar and fragile dance to extract its PYTHONPATH... my hypothesis is that the only thing breaking yt-dlp is the inherited PYTHONHOME/PYTHONPATH, so just drop that and rely on python locating its stdlib.

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Commits on Jul 2, 2026

macos: fix yt-dlp