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@Tihiy Firstly, thank you for fixing the other bug I reported last year. Much appreciated. I have been having another issue now with a multi-monitor setup for the last few months, but I'm honestly unsure if its just a Windows 11 24H2 bug or a StartAllBack bug. It has to do with the placement of the Notification/Calendar Windows 11 fly-out. It's being incorrectly placed on the wrong monitor (the right monitor). For context, the screenshots below are taken on a triple monitor PC setup in the following layout (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 1920x1080). The main screen is the central screen (2560x1440). Issue present shortly after fresh boot: This is after killing explorer.exe and restarting it. Now in the correct position: If I swap to Windows 10 fly-outs, this issue doesn't happen as far as I'm aware.

Initial tests with a patched "2025.09.17.84413" yt-dlp version (the zip import "yt-dlp" file was patched locally) look promising ; testing was done with a "bare bones" setup, with no optional Python modules and no FFmpeg : yt-dlp --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=ios" -vF "O5TS2CbBhKo" [debug] Command-line config: ['--extractor-args', 'youtube:player_client=ios', '-vF', 'O5TS2CbBhKo'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs utf-8, pref cp1253, out utf-8 (No VT), error utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.09.17.084413 [e123a48f1] (zip) [debug] Python 3.11.13 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 (OpenSSL 3.0.16 11 Feb 2025) [debug] exe versions: none [debug] Optional libraries: sqlite3-3.45.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1833 extractors [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo [youtube] Extracting URL: O5TS2CbBhKo [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading webpage [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: ios client https formats require a GVS PO Token which was not provided. They will be skipped as they may yield HTTP Error 403. You can manually pass a GVS PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token=iosgvs+XXX". For more information, refer to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide . To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot" [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading m3u8 information [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [info] Available formats for O5TS2CbBhKo: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS | FILESIZE TBR PROTO | VCODEC VBR ACODEC MORE INFO --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sb3 mhtml 48x27 0 | mhtml | images storyboard sb2 mhtml 80x45 1 | mhtml | images storyboard sb1 mhtml 160x90 1 | mhtml | images storyboard sb0 mhtml 320x180 1 | mhtml | images storyboard 233 mp4 audio only | m3u8 | audio only unknown Untested, Default, low, IOS 234 mp4 audio only | m3u8 | audio only unknown Untested, Default, high, IOS 602 mp4 256x144 12 | ~ 2.55MiB 89k m3u8 | vp09.00.10.08 89k video only Untested, IOS 269 mp4 256x144 24 | ~ 5.55MiB 193k m3u8 | avc1.4D400C 193k video only Untested, IOS 603 mp4 256x144 24 | ~ 5.06MiB 176k m3u8 | vp09.00.11.08 176k video only Untested, IOS 229 mp4 426x240 24 | ~ 10.22MiB 356k m3u8 | avc1.4D4015 356k video only Untested, IOS 604 mp4 426x240 24 | ~ 8.23MiB 286k m3u8 | vp09.00.20.08 286k video only Untested, IOS 230 mp4 640x360 24 | ~ 23.51MiB 818k m3u8 | avc1.4D401E 818k video only Untested, IOS 605 mp4 640x360 24 | ~ 14.13MiB 492k m3u8 | vp09.00.21.08 492k video only Untested, IOS 231 mp4 854x480 24 | ~ 41.82MiB 1456k m3u8 | avc1.4D401E 1456k video only Untested, IOS 606 mp4 854x480 24 | ~ 22.32MiB 777k m3u8 | vp09.00.30.08 777k video only Untested, IOS 232 mp4 1280x720 24 | ~ 72.92MiB 2538k m3u8 | avc1.64001F 2538k video only Untested, IOS 609 mp4 1280x720 24 | ~ 33.23MiB 1157k m3u8 | vp09.00.31.08 1157k video only Untested, IOS 270 mp4 1920x1080 24 | ~138.27MiB 4813k m3u8 | avc1.640028 4813k video only Untested, IOS 614 mp4 1920x1080 24 | ~ 50.15MiB 1746k m3u8 | vp09.00.40.08 1746k video only Untested, IOS and actual download: yt-dlp --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=ios" -f 234 "O5TS2CbBhKo" [youtube] Extracting URL: O5TS2CbBhKo [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading webpage [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading ios player API JSON WARNING: [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: ios client https formats require a GVS PO Token which was not provided. They will be skipped as they may yield HTTP Error 403. You can manually pass a GVS PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token=iosgvs+XXX". For more information, refer to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide . To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot" [youtube] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading m3u8 information [info] Testing format 234 [info] O5TS2CbBhKo: Downloading 1 format(s): 234 [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 45 [download] Destination: Love and Money - Halleluiah Man (HQ Audio) [O5TS2CbBhKo].mp4 [download] 100% of 3.75MiB in 00:00:12 at 309.95KiB/s WARNING: O5TS2CbBhKo: Possible MPEG-TS in MP4 container or malformed AAC timestamps. Install ffmpeg to fix this automatically Best regards.

The EAX (in fact sound hardware acceleration) related issue is independent of the nvidia driver - same issue happened even if I have an ATI X850. No longer though, since I removed IRQ steering. And about RLoew's patches, yeah - as far as I remember I have PATCHMEM and TBPLUS installed - though I did check the EAX related issue before installing TBPLUS and it was still there, so I guess TBPLUS isn't at fault

It's good performance after the first run. First run sets up a bunch of stuff on your computer (files/folders) and that slows it down a little bit. After that it's alright. And yes, YouTube works like you'd expect. There is a performance setting in settings. If you have ever used Chrome it's pretty much the same layout and should be familiar to you.

I think NOTHEARTOPLAYGAMES has answered your portable question. The version I downloaded is the 132 etc, etc version. I just picked the 32 bit version for XP but didn't notice if there was a portable version. . I suggest you try it. The first time I installed it I chose the "ungoogled" version. Problem was that eliminates Google as being one of the search engines you can make as the default. Since I regularly use Google for searching, I uninstalled it and re-installed it without checking the "ungoogled" mode. There is no "ungoogled" version of Supermium. It is a choice you make during the install.

Greetings ; let me just say that I'm not in a position to make any demands on you; I hope my previous post didn't come off as that (a demand) ; I just picked up from the observation @Reino made previously and, as a courtesy to him, I suggested a way for him to continue fetching iOS (i.e. HLS) YT streams without the need to hunt for and extract POT strings from a browser (or some other way) ; I have no personal interest on this, other than the stated dislike of available (download) options having been removed ... With that out of the way , my Python-fu is certainly worse than yours ; I've now seen that file "_video.py" has been further modified by upstream since 895e762, as can be seen here, so now it isn't just a matter of partially reverting that commit, as I had (foolishly) suggested before... Upstream have changed priorities of yt_clients in 3bd9154, so now iOS would have to be added as third? Let's hope this doesn't break things... In your downloaded "_video.py.diff" patch, I would personally stick closer to how things were on 895e762 , so, instead of: f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL}') + 'To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot"') I would go with: f'You can manually pass a GVS PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token={client_name}.gvs+XXX". ' - f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL}') + f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL} . ' + 'To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot"') # Only raise a warning for non-default clients, to not confuse users. + # iOS HLS formats still work without PO Token, so we don't need to warn about them. if client_name in (*self._DEFAULT_CLIENTS, *self._DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENTS): However, as the English say, "the proof is in the pudding", so the patched code should be (compiled and) tested first for inadvertent "malfunctions" ... Thanks already ...

Probably an RF issue. Try different: Wifi channels / power levels shielding / reflectors USB ports / hubs / cables monitor refresh rates cpu and system clock speeds

Thanks for the update. Was this also before the Nvidia driver install, or after? And are any of RLoew's patches still installed?

Under the BIOS PCI devices listing, both are shown as having IRQ 5. In Win98 device manager too, both still have the same IRQ 5. And yet now everything works perfectly. Very strange and I don't have the first idea what's going on. Another interesting thing - before when I played Hitman Contracts with EAX enabled (SB Audigy 2 ZS), after a while the sound would start tearing and repeating (as if some sound buffer underflow or overflow happened). After this IRQ steering related change, even that sound problem went away. As I said, very weird..

So this is no longer the case?

@SweetLow Hey man, thank you so much for giving me the hint of IRQ Steering. I looked it up online and found that IRQ steering settings can be found in PCI Bus device settings. So I went to pci bus properties in safe mode, then in settings tab, under Device enumeration, changed from "Use Hardware" option to "Use BIOS" option. Left the "Override Bridges" check box unchecked. Then in the IRQ Steering tab, I just unchecked the "Use IRQ Steering" check box (this also disabled all the sub-options: Get IRQ table using ACPI BIOS, Get IRQ table using MS Specification table and Get IRQ table from Real Mode PCIBIOS 2.1 call). Then after restarting, both the VGA driver and SMB via LAN access works perfectly. I admit I don't have the least bit of idea what those options meant. Maybe I only had to disable one or two things or suboptions. I'll test with games further and update here if anything got broken after my changes

Notepad++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B I am not sure about working on Window 2000: "Notepad++ v6.6.9 is the last version that can work on Windows 2000". Not to mention Windows 95. HomeSite was the thing then. It is not a general text editor, but an HTML editor. Still not WYSIWYG and full control of the code. And there was Arachnophilia written in Java (right, requiring Java 2 runtime environment).

Some computers have problems with Wifi via USB. A fellow attorney from the building asked me for help with an old computer. He bought from a dude a Core 2 Duo desktop for $200. For some reason I get no stable Wifi signal on that computer. And it was running Windows 7. On other computers that same adapter works fine. I was using this one: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Nano-Archer-T3U-Wireless/dp/B09KTDXPY3/138-3872363-9753139?pd_rd_w=VCIQk&content-id=amzn1.sym.9cf17164-13e4-4652-96f9-f76b8f33fec0&pf_rd_p=9cf17164-13e4-4652-96f9-f76b8f33fec0&pf_rd_r=TRH0PR84S0KZXC3495GM&pd_rd_wg=0XZEU&pd_rd_r=860d8f4c-1a63-4971-a145-69136f4bb8db&pd_rd_i=B09KTDXPY3&th=1

Since I don't make changes directly in the source tree of my fork (I apply a few changes after cloning), I could try to apply 2 diff's with your proposed changes. Could you check if this is what you want (I left out the changes in README.md)? GvsPoTokenPolicy only set to false for HLS. StreamingProtocol.HLS: GvsPoTokenPolicy( required=False, recommended=True, ),

How is the performance with a Pentium D CPU ? Does Youtube play videos ok ?

If you require access to working jabber server please contact me via DM. I can arrange you temporary access to mine for any testing you may require

I was speaking from a manufacturing perspective. See in that reply that Dell had made custom installations that do include the required drivers. They use the OEM source media that was mailed direct from MS to make their recovery media, this it the type of Windows media that I had worked with, not Retail editions which I would consider to be off-the-shelf. Clarification needed in the cases where some companies sold System Builder on its own, which was actually not permitted, so I won't consider those to be off-the-shelf versions.

From MDL forums: Telegram 5.6.3 for XP https://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=24:50247:313#313 Regards

Technically, the developer doesn't have to create a portable version. Any web browser, be it Mozilla-based or Chromium-based, can be 'made into' a PORTABLE version by using a "loader". I've only used PORTABLE browsers for the last THIRTY YEARS.

I assume that you are talking about the version of Supermium in the 'Web Browsers / Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes' section. That version does not seem to be portable or am I wrong? I am using Win XP and would like a portable version that is Google free for Win XP. I found a version at Major Geeks: Download Supermium Portable - MajorGeeks / Supermium Portable 132.0.6834.226_R5.02 Date: 08/26/2025 Size: 192 MB License: Open Source Requires: 11|10|8|7|Vista|XP https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/supermium_portable.html Then at PortableApps.com: Supermium Portable 126.0.6478.261 R7 (web browser with legacy support) Released A new version of Supermium Portable has been released. Supermium is a web browser based on Chrome with legacy Windows support (XP/vista/7/8). https://portableapps.com/news/2025-01-27--supermium-portable-126.0.6478.261-R7-released and there appear to be at least a couple versions at Github ... but they seem to be only for Windows 7 and 8. I've been wanting to try Supermium for a year or so but just not sure which version to work with and if a portable version would work. In the Supermium topic in 'Web Browsers' there is never any talk of a portable version. Would that portable version at Major Geeks be OK to go with? ... I've read the talk about using only an 'ungoogled' version. Thanks ...

Not the folks that I know. They live paycheck to paycheck, not a dime in savings, but can't keep a phone more than a mere six months or so without cracking it. They upgrade OFTEN, *very* often, not because they can "afford to", but because they eventually get tired of the cracked screen that their NEGLIGENCE added to the phone they do have. But that is also just *PROOF* that anybody and everybody can "afford" a phone. These folks were very likely raised BREAKING their toys left and right, with their parents ALWAYS telling them, "This is why you don't have NICE THINGS." So here they are, young adults, STILL BREAKING their toys, but EVERYBODY has choices to make in life, "Hmm, should I buy a new phone or pay for car insurance?" These folks opt for the phone over car insurance. Sure, not "all" of these 'kids these days', but you know what I mean, lol...

Hey SweetLow, regarding IRQ Steering.. I don't think so. I don't see it among enumerated devices, but I have attached the screenshots for various devices for reference. I'm not sure what jumbo frames mean, but if you can tell me where or how I can find the info (i.e. whether or not I jumbo frames are used on the RTL8111 device), please let me know. I'll attach logs/screenshots as necessary. By previous problem solving do you mean the one where I was trying to force detection of only up to 2 Gb RAM?

Do you have working PCI IRQ Steering? Do you use jumbo frames on this device,? And yes, I have to note that you didn't share the results of your previous problem solving...

I'm still working on this. I found my old Pentium 133 Windows 95 system and have downloaded some alternate builds of Pidgin and GTK+2. The rev-a version seems to be the mistake; the original GTK 2.6.10 was the last build for 95 except for a special build of 2.14.4. Google "gtk+2 win95-compatible version" AI Overview:

I wasn't misleading anyone. I said "pluck some 100 Euro notes", not pluck ONE 100 Euro note," or even "pluck a few 100 Euro notes!" We're all well aware that the cost of a modern PC is more than a few 100-Euro notes. I figured the reader would know how many notes would have to be plucked! But quibbles over adjectives aside, I think we actually agree! My whole point was that there's no such thing as a money tree! Most of us actually have to work quite hard to earn enough money to buy a modern PC; thus it was quite arrogant for someone to respond to a complaint about a Web site being deliberately blocked from working on an older PC with "just go out and buy a new one," as if that were a trivial thing for anyone to do!