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I would also like to add that during further research, I discovered that "AHCICD" and "AHCIWRAP" (both of these drivers individually) support on-the-fly loading through "DEVLOAD.COM" at any convenient time when needed (they do not need to be loaded through CONFIG.SYS). However, I was unable to do anything with "GCDROM.SYS" (it seems that it requires a pure SATA connection without AHCI, or my controller is not yet compatible with it, or there may be something else entirely). But since "AHCIWRAP.SYS" has already fixed the issue mentioned in the topic title, I have added "[SOLVED]" there. Thank you all.

Ffmpeg has grown to be absolutely ginormous. I remember how they used to have their own encoders for h.264 and h.262 with shared parts. The new encoders are far too slow, and more encoders keep getting invented. If I needed video, I would use x264 instead. Some people actively promote ffmpeg as a solution for all, but it kinda tries to be a jack of all trades and not the best. I don't see a use for ffmpeg for YouTube downloads. So what is new? How do we rip today? What numbers to use for Safari HLS?

The Internet has always been bad. The intent, from the beginning, was never in our best interest. What made it good, was us. That is where the issues seem to be coming from. The Internet is less "us" as users and more as "us" as members. The playground has a lot more rules. What is making the Internet worse, is the very invested interest in turning it into an eventually "required" public utility. Once "Zero Trust" technology is more fully integrated, into peoples lives, there won't be much left that allows people a "casual" life, without Internet access. Captcha,2FV, browser scrutiny checks, and gaming services requiring root access to your device, are all parts of easing the world into accepting the idea of secured devices and "state level" digital I.D. authentication. 90% of the world's Governments and 90% of the major tech sector are very openly "PRO" - "Zero Trust" services. We are surrounded by simple examples of this everywhere. For example, apps that won't install on devices that you yourself have administrative access to (rooted), age verification laws, China's voluntary Digital I.D. (is voluntary really voluntary, if you live in China), fraudulent student loans, fraudulent employment, a good supply of data breaches, deep fakes, cyber attacks..... it almost seems like an endless list of real good reasons, for "Zero Trust". So a "secured" device will equate to, a device that has "secured" your personal and legal potential/liability to the Internet and the device you are using. I hope I'm not coming off as in support of this; I don't care for it at all. I'm just putting it out there, and trying to express that this is no personal theory of mine. I think most people kinda suspected this was the intent for the future. But, for anyone interested, the term "Zero Trust" isn't mine. I think even light research could turn up the relevant information, to confirm what I have here laid out; just dig into "Zero Trust". I think that there is probably a good portion, of many societies, that would find this information comforting. It will come with all kinds of changes, that many will find pleasant. I'm just a freak that views life and societal life as two distinct things. Anything that makes it harder to realize that all society is imagined (and functionally upheld by mob-rule (like lines between nations) kinda bothers me. I kinda feel like Internet as a dependency is one of those things. Sadly, for me, I don't think there are many people left, that can understand the difference between life and societal life. When most question what their life is, most probably cannot identify much, outside of a societal context. This kind of self identity, is one of the reasons we are where we are. It is also the cause of a lot of major human emotional distress. We are provided/grown with mental pattern structurings, like low/high self esteem. At the very root, self esteem establishes the your value is measurable (almost certainly at a social level). That alone is a core fracture in the truth of your reality. No matter how you look, smell, are treated, etc., you will always be the most important person to yourself; and with that realization there can be no self-esteem. You have to be good enough for yourself, it is your "only" option. The interesting thing here is that such capacity to realize yourself, puts you in line with definitions for psychopathic and sociopathic traits. It becomes clear why, when you realize that psychological health standards are set via sociology (social psychology). So, you are not a healthy member of society, if you see your self as a "singular" individual. You are psychologically healthy (for the whole) when you see yourself as an individual/member of the whole. To wax on this a little longer, there was a study about mice living in mazes, having observed two primary types of mouse reactions, to it. In one, the mice would establish habits of feeding, drinking, and grooming, well adapted to the construct of the maze. One note of interest, is that they began to groom quite constantly. The observing scientist nick-named the group "The Beautiful Ones". In the other, reaction, the mice were excessively focused with escaping the maze. Many were so concerned with escape, that they did not eat or drink; eventually perishing. This excessive grooming is masturbatory (psychological, not sexual). This masturbatory compulsion, for us, is the result of self identification within societal life. In other words, our natural patterns are replaced with ones provided to us. Any pride, opinion, psychological insecurity, and most identity traits, are completely masturbatory (pleasing/displeasing ourselves by the imagining of ourselves). I'm not saying I prefer chasing each other around with rocks, as we fight over the last fig. I just think it is a good and honest context, for understanding the aforementioned topic(s). Anyway, glad to see people resisting cellular payments. Maybe, with your help, it is something I don't have to try finding a way around from, for another handful of years.

It's from July 2022, I think I got it from here. I'll try those six OLE files as KernelEx helper modules.

The first posted version of Kexstubs825 had a bug that required a careful workaround in the ordinal definitions. A fixed version was reposted and included in later Kex22 update packs. What is the date stamp in the KernelEx tab of your copy of Kstub825.dll? I recommend trying the six OLE files discussed in this post as KernelEx helper modules. Yes, Oleaut32.dll 2.40.4519 (recommended for standard usage) can be easily patched to add an export for Ordinal 327. I'll do that now.

Thanks a lot for your reply ; as I wrote, Vista SP2 32-bit here; from 2016-2018 I used to use MABS (MSYS2/MinGW) to compile locally non-free ffmpeg builds; after that time, several MSYS2 components went Win7+ (e.g. "make") and by 2021, the compiler itself stopped being available for the 32-bit architecture; needless to say, latest MABS is meant for a recent version of Win10 64-bit; yes, you probably can still compile 32-bit binaries with it, but those won't run on Vista, possibly not on Win7, too ... The AnimMouse ffmpeg builds used to be Vista-compatible, but broke at some time (early 2022); as a Vista user too, you probably know those things already ... I'm not closely following current FFmpeg development ; at one time I was aware that the FFmpeg code itself continued to be NT 6.0 compatible (as opposed to NT 5.x), so that a "no-libs" compiled binary would launch normally under Vista; but a lot of the third party (external) libs built normally into FFmpeg are the main culprits for breaking Vista-support (x265 comes to mind, with its NUMA Win7+ functions ) ; it must be quite an enormous task today for you to restore NT 6.1/6.0 and even 5.x support on your custom FFmpeg builds; you are to be highly praised for this feat ... On a 32-bit, under-resourced (by today's standards ) machine, I practically have little use of most of those extra libs (especially video encoders); I rarely do video transcoding here, mostly audio transcoding is being performed; it's those many optional external libs that inflate static binaries' filesize and are the cause for broken NT 6.0 support, for all I know... Thanks for your intention! User Reino here (now on Win11) used to offer both static+shared 32-bit builds, targeting WinXP SP3 and an SSE-only CPU, ca. every 4 months ; it'd be very sweet from you if you managed to offer something similar, but for more recent CPUs (e.g. SSE2+) and on Vista+... FWIW, this thread started a long while ago and mentions "winxp" in its title, but is actually frequented now by members of various WinOSes ; so I hope you posting Vista+ FFmpeg builds will be OK ; of course, there's always that ... "Willing to test? " -> Simply throw "them" at me ... Best regards.

824 hasn't ordinal support. Patching oleout32 directly is possible. But I don't have the ability. I can't confirm that.

Is not trustworthy, it belongs to Yegor Sak (a Russian?) in Canada. Logs will be used, as it is demanded by Canadian laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscribe In June 2023, Greek authorities started criminal proceedings against Yegor Sak, the CEO of Windscribe, because someone using an IP address that belonged to a Windscribe server in Finland had breached a server in Greece and used it to send mass spam emails. After a two-year process, the case was eventually dismissed in April 2025.[9]

Strange!!!!!! I always thought Finnish goods were one of the best, I almost always buy Oras taps, for example. And we have one of the best trains. Actually, I'm very tempted to not only ignore Amazon forever, I want to depart and isolate from the internet, especially now, with no D.Draker around.

No idea. My homebrew Python 3.14 Linux standalone executable is even 51.7MB. 😮 Almost 100MB unpacked in the /tmp folder.

Working.

Oh NICE, thank you, yes they do work! Tbh, i simply ignored them until now, as the plain yt-dlp executable always did the job. Edit: Now, as i wanted to copy/deploy Python-3.12.5 from my dev-disk to the main System i discovered, that i didn't only ,brew' the executable (of about 36MB) but also an additional Python-3.12 folder in /usr/local/lib - of about 287 MB! So i decide to utilize this (now even more appreciated) Py-integrated version in the nearer future. And i'm wondering a bit, how the new XP-Version can be so small in size!

Don't the standalone Linux builds work (they have newer Python embedded)? yt-dlp_linux or (for 32bit) my yt-dlp_linux_x86.

For the latest version of yt-dlp (2025.10.23) i had to update even my oldstable Debian 11 system (from 3.9 to 3.12.5 - as described nicely here). A little bit complicated and CPU-intense, but it seems to work: yt videos now downloading again without the 403/permission error. Cordial thanks @nicolaasjan and all the other developers!

Yes, there is always at least 1 disk (the system disk) present in the BIOS (it's bootable). There might be something else besides it. I'll check it out. update: I checked the BIOS, and there's only the system SSD and this disk drive (NEC). Only 4 devices are physically connected (including the disk drive).

Thanks, this is what I need. It works (and it's even EMM386 compatible). Amazing work! I haven't looked at GCDROM.SYS yet.

Are you getting the below "consent" dialog? Or have you at least gotten it in the past? If not, maybe this "consent" dialog is not working in New Moon so everything else is "Googleismed" as unreadable.

Is something else on this AHCI controller? Especially BIOS controlled drives.

What is going on on Euronews? I get a page full of unreadable plain "binary" text in New Moon. Is the website somehow appified and not HTML based anymore? https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/22/european-parliament-rebels-against-simplified-sustainability-requirements

@VistaLover The Windows 7 builds are the only ones I had published until posting in this thread. I also have Vista specific builds locally as I still run Vista x64. If you are not looking for a shared build of the XP version, I may be able to put something together in a 32-bit shared configuration that targets Vista. If you are willing to test? This would be XP incompatible, so Vista and up.

I'll the Deno thing if there is a package for download that doesn't require much command-line wizardry. I can download sometimes today, but I don't know how to get the format number that always works. "96-12" only works sometimes. https://i.imgur.com/SWaCvoO.png

It appears to me, that the last Kxproject driver (outside of community efforts) is 3550. There are earlier versions that work on Win98se and newer. Has anyone tried, or had any luck, getting/fudging newer versions to work? The driver/utilities source is available, now; so I can play around, at my leisure. However, my aim will be to get some functionality in Win98FE. I may decide it isn't a good aim :) I thought I should ask "here" before digging around, too much.

You are no novice user, so I assume most common questions aren't needed. For the sake of any novice, reading this thread, if you type C:\EXIT nothing happens? What happens if you use ahciwrap.sys or GCDROM.SYS? That may help eliminate that the issue is specific to rloew's driver. I'm not a huge user of cd-roms "in any O.S." with that said, the error exposes that the driver's disc filesystem functionality is blocked/unavailable; or now unable to recognize the data it observes it. Maybe, it could be the use of an updated UDF filesystem or other updates/patches; perhaps to the bit access of the drives and their controllers. A change/patch, when Windows loads, may be keeping something persistent, at the hardware level, in so doing "maybe" preventing the media from being recognized; after returning to DOS. I do think my reply is a placeholder, until someone else comes along. But you never know, as you are a competent user, maybe something here will help trigger a thought of your own. Looking forward to seeing this pan out for you.

Yes, I had to figure this out on my PC recently also, as a taskbar on one of my monitors stopped hiding. Are you by chance also running DisplayFusion, like I am ?

In the case of ffmpeg, as I use for more purposes, I use upx to reduce the disk size to around 50% on each file. In terms of run time, it doesn't make to work slower. Give it a try: https://upx.github.io/ (Don't worry to use old versions, I use an old 3.x)