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I gave the current nightly from 09.04.2025 a try. It works under Windows XP but is not stable. When watching a video on YouTube and stopping the stream with the stop button, the whole player closes. Therefore, I will stay with the official release of VLC Media Player in version 3.0.20 until a new official and stable version is released. Edit: This issue even happens when watching a local video file. Edit 2: I have tested again and found the cause of this issue. The portable version of VLC is not really portable. Every installation of the VLC Media Player uses the same vlc folder under c:\Documents and Settings. The nightly messed up this folder. Suddenly this issue was even in my original installation. As I already said, I will stay with the official release of VLC Media Player in version 3.0.20 until a new official and stable version is released. I made a fresh installation of version 3.0.20, and all is fine now.

You can place the youtube.lua file containg the posted and adapted code from above to VLC's lua/playlist directory as it is. Or, you can compile your adapted script to a luac file. It's up to you. I personally did the latter. And be aware of possible spaces in your path! Such paths must be additionally surrounded by quotation marks.

For me, the official releases are always decisive when assessing the compatibility of programmes. It's great that this problem has now been fixed in the nightly version. However, my statement was clear: Nevertheless, I will give the current nightly from 09.04.2025 a try. Therefore, thanks for the hint!

No. there is no problem on my machine. Without creating a portable folder inside the VLC programme folder, as written by @VistaLover, the most recent nightly from 09.04.2025 messed up my vlc folder under %APPDATA%. No more, no less. I had to clean up all VLC related things. Then I made a fresh portable setup of VLC Media Player 3.0.20. All is working fine now.

Hi I do not understand your problem , because on my computer type of Pentium 4 A 3GHz (2004) everything works very well with 2 GB of memory and a RADEON ATI 4650 in AGP with the Nightly 3.0.21 version of 9-4-2025, I have no closure of the player with the Stop button on Youtube as well with the "stream" or with a local video. The player with your Lua script on Nightly 3.0.21 works perfectly. I unleashed VLC Nightly 3.0.21 and laptop like "Vistalover" the written in its post ... It also works if I install it. So ultimately I think there is a problem elsewhere on your machine. I remind you that I work on XP SP2. I use the VLC 3.0.21 Nightly version since September 2024 and it always operates on Win Xpsp2 unlike the official version on the Videolan Web. I also use it to compress small video and audio flows in MP3/MP4.

The official release of VLC Media Player in version 3.0.21 is not compatible with Windows XP, even not with service pack SP3. This has been well known for a long time. So, the last official XP-compatible version is 3.0.20. But so far this version runs very well under Windows XP. And with the new youtube.lua script, links to media files on YouTube work again.

Thanks. No, I have lots and lots of different hardware. Windows 7 sound is the worst, sandy, Win 8 is soooo soft, like Sony HiFi audio (if you remember the late 70s-80s, of course, you'll understand). XP isn't far away from 7, a bit punchier, but also over-bassy and flat (poor surround), like they smash you straight in the face. But if you listen to CDs with their 16bit primitivism and over-loaded, highly compressed to the "brick wall" audio, which totally suck in the first place, probably you won't notice. Edit: Read about loudness wars, and even if a CD is properly mastered, 16bit is still not enough. It's 60s tech.

Wait, whaaaaat? How so? Elaborate pls.

So the last (real) kernel release was in 2022, I knew something fishy was going on, thanks for the warning!

It's still very old. Let's see, 11th of January, 2017 is over 8 years old, not to mention it's a Quadro card. And you were going to stream on Supermium with your cards!?! You'd be outright blocked on Netflix. lol The driver support was dropped in 2019, 6 years ago, it's hopeless. Here's an old article, and even then they already demanded GTX 1050 (which still gets the drivers, unlike all of yours). GTX 1050 4GB is only for the poorest members of our society. https://www.ncesc.com/gaming-pedia/what-gpu-does-netflix-use/

I'm sorry , as of now , I do not disribute my version publicly . On the other hand , @ArcticFoxie does , I think he may give you the links to the latest releases.

My experiences with any of the v12 versions are terrible . Browser crash upon trying to login to some websites with error "0xC0000005" , terribly slow scrolling of twitter and IG , not showing items in my basket in my favourite German shop . v13 by any of these authors : @ArcticFoxie , @Humming Owl and me , @Dixel [of course] all work absolutely fine .

My whole idea was to eliminate all browser interactions with youtube , like "feed" , etc. I'm sure you know chrome had plenty of junk built in to interact with the known websites , without our input. You can search for these youself and try to disable them . Also , you could try to debug and see what happens right before the crash . We can't give p so easily , right ? Even though you say v12. is good , it's outdated . Do not work with my favourite shop, for example.

Cosmetic changes , nothing new.

@ArcticFoxie , In my version at offset 6094CAF (chroem.dll) replace youtube with youbube and see if it still crashes. And I recommend you to use only adblock when visiting youtube , for this test. IP doesn't matter.

I'm sorry , I do not follow . I'never said we need to "remove googleapis from 360 browser" . Never ever . Do you have a link ? Disrespect remains and it's strong . But it has nothing to do with it . I'm not sure it would be a good idea to talk about the "ungoogled" here , but it's somewhat ok since we're helping the author to create a privacy-oriented browser . About "paranoia" and the ballance between the features/anti-features. In my version , all extensions and websites work , check for youself. So I kinda reached the ballance. Ungoogled : first and foremost, it's made by a russian dude (again , lol , russians everywhere). How do I know this ? From the log it creates. The russian language entries look gibberish on my PC because I do not have any chino-russian fonts. Well , these days they teach us to "not judge a book by it's cover" , but I always judge a book by its cover and I looked into this "ungoogled" . The dude just replaced the word google with some nonsense , but didn't break the actual links and chrome still broadcasts them right into the net . Your ISP and everyone else , includuing , but not limited to KGB , lol , knows you're on "ungoogled" . Besides he didn't touch the res. pack and the google feedback and many more of the anti-features (like identity) remain fully working . How is this privacy ? It was me who gave you (and the others) the exact offsets earlier: All of them are fully functional in "ungoogled" chromium. To be fair , I always try to be fair , I didn't test the latest releases (perhaps he improved something , but I doubt it).

Really ? And what about the image below ? The first results about 360 chrome 13.0.2250.0 at msfn and your post against google , lol , how come google didn't censore it ?! I'm not advocating for Google , since it was also created by an (ex?) russian citizen, but we just need to be fair .

Would break some extensions , I had problems with saving settings with "delumintate" ext., for example , it sometimes reverted back to def. settings. Possibly some others shan't work as expected too. _googlecast._tcp.local has no effect . Others fine. Keep in mind , these things written in plain text aren't the most evil ones.

At least you won't have to edit the settings anymore and there is no need to keep the data folder , everything is hardcoded (even the search engines). I guess now you see my version starts with everything in English , like I told before.