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Maybe the problem is in the splitter. You have updated ffmpeg 3.4.14, the new version of ffmpeg will not necessarily work better than the old one. You might want to try older versions of ffmpeg from 2009. They may work even faster. Because the new ffmpeg is very much oriented to 64 bit and windows 10. The ffmpeg developers are sponsored by donations from google and microsoft related entities.

Where can I find VMWare Player for Windows XP and Vista? I am alone having issue finding VMWare Player 15 for Windows 7 (have a copy archived though).

It is possible that the SP3 you used for comparison was somehow corrupted. On my hardware, SP3 was indeed "faster" than SP2. I am not a "gut feeling" type of guy. I took quantifiable and repeatable measurements that led me to using SP3 over SP2. Hard facts that were repeatable. No "gut feeling", no "placebo effect". That's not to say that you are "full of it", lol, it is POSSIBLE that SP2 is "faster" on your hardware. Just saying that was not the case back in the day when I compared the two. One POSSIBLE factor is that I *never* install a Service Pack 'on top of' an existing installation - I SLIPSTREAM IT INTO MY INSTALLATION DISK. Then FORMAT and INSTALL brand new.

A license key and the corresponding, customized download link of DRevitalize can still be bought from the author if you contact him at his email address.

No. h2testw of 11Feb2008 is mainly for SDHC cards or USB sticks and doesNOT work with HDDs >2TB: A 3.09TB partition on an OK 4TB HDD, connected via eSATA to my old Inspiron 7500 (Pentium III, 700Mhz), gets incorrectly displayed under Windows 2003 (32bit, SP2, Enterprise, 18Feb2007) as "879249 MByte".

SP3 on my old 2006 laptop feels a bit bloated and slower, SP2 feels cleaner and faster, so that's why I use SP2. Thanks, I appreciate it.

Yes, it will only install 1.67, need to have browser version 128 or newer

My version is: 10.0.10586.15 by Microsoft. And I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 installed: https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe

Jeez, it turns out that now, for version <yt-dlp_x86_winXP_2025.12.06> to work, you need this “junk” — <Microsoft Visual C++ 2019>, which has to be placed in the same folder! Since I have no intention of polluting my system with that crap, I just copied all the missing files directly into the folder with <yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe> But here’s another question: why did version <yt-dlp_x86_winXP_2025.11.25> work perfectly fine without those extra DLLs? After all, those files are already embedded inside <yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe>, and when unpacked, everything gets extracted into the TEMP folder anyway! So what’s the point of this “duplication” now?

I've uploaded v3.6.0 (for which my AMD Ryzen AI MAX 385 for the first time did all the hard, and particularly quick, work). Please confirm it works on WinXP.

hmm i do not know the details but these are 2 different error messages: "api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll was not found" -> this means that dll/file was not found "ucrtbase.mbstowcs could not be found in the dynamic library api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll" -> this means that the dll/file was found but not the function "ucrtbase.mbstowcs" in that dll ucrtbase refer to the c-runtime (ucrt - Universal C Runtime Library) so you might can give it a try by installing the vc-runtime https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 but i do not know if that one needs sp3 - its worth a try but there might also be a different version or modded version of that api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll - what can give you function maybe if you have one (these files had different compiles for different os´s of windows) (what could explain why that error message says it found the file but not its function) if the c-runtime works - a good method to avoid this problem is to ship the vc-runtime with the executable (in this case ytdl)

I'll try these.

I didn't realise there were so many still using SP2 (why?). I will consider building the next version with PyInstaller 5.13.2 again. But do note, that in the future that may not be possible any more, due to the changes they make. Consider upgrading to SP3. In the meantime, here is a build that should work on SP2. @davidz, Do you really mean you're on SP3? Because in my SP3 machine (VM), 2025.12.06.064237 works fine: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] User config "C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Application Data\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--js-runtimes', 'quickjs', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '-o', '~/Bureaublad/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-S', 'res:1080,vcodec:avc,acodec:m4a', '--sponsorblock-remove', 'all', '-N', '6'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.12.06.064237 (winXP_x86_exe*) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121824-g775b102182-WINXP (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-121824-g775b102182-WINXP, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2025.11.12, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.6.0, websockets-15.0.1, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.1 [debug] JS runtimes: quickjs-2025-09-13 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1853 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Documents and Settings\Nico/.cache\yt-dlp ..

Thank you. Sadly, I think the blue is uglier than the green, but .... it is what it is.

Yes, I confirm: version yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe (2025.12.06.064237) does not work on Windows XP SP3! Version 2025.11.25.144622 worked fine!

Microsoft added the blue color to this progress bar with dark mode. I saw this in the Insider builds, it seems they added it in the latest CU. MS is gradually removing the ugly green.

Yes. I have two systems with native NVMe support in CSM and only one can boot - HP notebook on Core gen8 with InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS. But to do so I pushed to write my own DDO as in real mode this BIOS has bug which failed any Int 13h read or write on request with more than 8 sectors. No one bootloader can boot with such restriction and MS bootloader BOOTMGR that WRITES into file system under some circumstances can corrupt this file system even. Int 13h on Core gen10 on mobo with AMI UEFI BIOS does not work at all in Virtual 8086 Mode. And this is "must have" feature to boot any system that relates on this mode in boot time/work time icluding Windows 9x, Safe Mode of Windows 9x and DOS in protected mode with EMM386 or somthing like this. This problem is not new, RLoew faced with those buggy BIOSes with his AHCI driver too as the root of problem is the same - PCI Bus Master Controllers including ATA, AHCI and NVMe have identical program model of the I/O request: SG List pointing to the I/O buffers. There is solutions (double buffering) which can struggle with I/O buffers in the "wrong" memory but no one solution can solve the problem of SG List in the "wrong" memory as no one software except the driver itself "knows" about this list. So to solve the problem you have to replace buggy code of Int 13h handler in form of 1. new CSM DXE module, 2. DDO that supports NVMe or 3. driver in form of .SYS or .TSR

Hi nicolaasjan, I still use XP SP2 for now, I tested the latest yt-dlp 2025.12.06 and when I try to download a video it says: "... api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll was not found." hmm, it doesn't work with any command I try. (example: yt-dlp --version ) Can you please keep yt-dlp be able to work on XP SP2 if possible? I would also like to say a big THANKS to you nicolaasjan for all your hard work with yt-dlp and making video download possible on older OSs.

1.68.0 does not install...

This happens on Windows 11 too. I hope that this will fixed soon. Bugs me a lot lol

The latest version of my yt-dlp is now built with PyInstaller 6.17.0. Unfortunately it is not compatible with Windows XP SP2 any more (got a personal message from a forum member).

Sorry to have to ask, but can anyone tell me why this strange color of the progress bar and folder names ? The blue is NOT the accent color, in case anyone is wondering. Happened after the latest two updates, one of Windows (26200.7309), second of SAB (3.9.19). LE : I tried with SAB disabled, still same crappy blue. So not caused by SAB, I think, but I would still love to get rid of the blue accent and progress bar, if anyone has any idea, I would be grateful.

This driver won't help you boot 9x from NVMe if the legacy 16-bit disk access provided via your motherboard's CSM mode does not work - I'm getting IOS error on bootup on both MSI B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI and MSI PRO H610M-B DDR4 motherboards when trying to boot 98SE from NVMe drive. Something to do with incorrect handling of interrupt 13h for NVMe drives when switching to protected mode or something... Omores on his videos use mostly ASUS motherboards and NVMe drives just work for him - ASUS does CSM differently? I've only tested this driver when booting 98SE from a SATA drive on my H610 motherboard while having a NVMe drive inserted in the mobo's slot, it works fine in that regard.

Latest version working on WinNT 4.0 is 3.63 but this not support write EDID. I tested other versions and they install OK but do not want to work: 3.64.555 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager 3.65 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager 3.75 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager 3.83 - Access violation 3.85 - Access violation P.S. All these versions work in WinXP and I can write EDID. https://www.upload.ee/files/18871199/PowerStrip3x.zip.html https://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

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