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Ultimate irony: the Cloudflare security checks block me from downloading Serpent with wget any more. I just get "403 Forbidden." Nor can I even use an old Serpent version to download the newest version! Apparently I'll have to use R3dfox to download Serpent now...? At least I'm on Win 7 and can use R3dfox, but what's an XP user to do now? Have I mentioned lately how much I hate AI? Not because I don't find it useful, but because everybody and their God damned dog is trying to scrape the entire World Wide Web to train their damned AI, necessitating all these damned security checks.

The codecs shown by VLC should be fine. I'm wondering about the format of the thumbnail you added. Maybe an image format that I need to add support for?

make sure your browser/downloader sends Referer properly. or captcha page will show. for wget, you may need to add " --referer=http://rthost.win/ "

AstroSkipper ... thanks for the link. I probably would not have found it anytime soon.

https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68/releases You do not need to have an account there. BTW, Codeberg is much better than GitHub.

Yeah, you're welcome, I have added some details to the release. Though couldron filthare still blocks us

Thanks! But I am not such a Windows XP user. And I didn't blame anyone. I generally avoid slim, light or whatever releases. And I simply asked to have a look into it and maybe he can provide full releases which haven't been neutered as he did before. Not everything people call for actually makes sense. Especially when even standard videos can’t be played anymore.

Go back some pages in this thread and you'll find this was a request from several of your XP co-users (aka XP "die-hards"), either complaining about the inflated filesizes of the static executables (hence the "death" of the static "ffplay.exe") or stating they have absolutely no use for FFplay: No, never. I have always double-click .mp4 and is opened in VLC to watch everything and I don't need anything else. I no need scripts for download @AstroSkipper, do you now get the picture why 1) static FFplay.exe was completely dropped 2) the FFmpeg+FFprobe compiles for XP are now built with only minimal support for codecs/muxers/filters etc. ? autodidact is not to blame for that; he just provided what "the popular demand" is for ... Later on, as a courtesy, he added an FFplay shared build ONLY, again with just basic libs, for those (few?) XP users wanting to make use of it: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184368-who-here-has-a-youtube-dl-compile-for-winxp/page/45/#findComment-1288102 More references of mine: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184368-who-here-has-a-youtube-dl-compile-for-winxp/page/45/#findComment-1288026 https://msfn.org/board/topic/184368-who-here-has-a-youtube-dl-compile-for-winxp/page/45/#findComment-1288100 Kind regards.

Oh waaaoh , this is the first time in years that ChatGPT works with Mypal under XP SP3. Only version 78.0.3 works and it is fast. Here is a small paper from me, that confirms the crazy crazy fact, that an classical particel fullfills exact(!) the same Heisenberg Unschärferelation Dietmar https://www.upload.ee/files/19496336/pxxp.pdf.html

Thank you very much for the new release! It works great here under Windows XP Professional SP3. Especially GitHub is running again now, and incredibly fast on my old P4 machine. Everything that worked in Mypal 78.0.2 seems to work in Mypal 78.0.3 as well. In particular, the Alice0775 script loader, all 37 of my own UC.JS scripts, and the installed extensions. Brilliant! I’ll carry on testing, but I’m already thrilled. Can you provide in short what you changed in this release compared to the previous one? And here a quick reminder: The issue #96 on GitHub is still open. Is there anything else to add? I assume it has already been fixed but I might be wrong, too.

I tried to play a music video which I downloaded from YouTube with the H264 codec in the mp4 format. A standard format, so to speak. It was downloaded with my ytBATCH for Windows XP and processed with ffmpeg 7.1 to embed subtitle, metadata and a thumbnail. It can be played with all players, even with ffplay except your recent version 8.2. ffplay immediately closes when trying to play this video. Why did you scale down to basic? Your previous releases have really been fine. In my opinion, the only thing which can happen is that scaling down results in problems playing some kind of videos. BTW, I asked you in a previous post whether you also could add ffplay to your static releases. Is that possible for you?

I'm back. R3dfox worked, but good grief. I had to click the stupid "I am human" box. No more automated downloads. What really bites is that I had a nice .bat file that would automatically download the list of files from the appropriate directory at o.rthost.win, find the newest, automatically download that file, back up the old version, extract the new one, and apply all my browser customizations, all with just a few keystrokes. Now that's all been thrown out the window!

You must be trying to play a format that doesn't have a demuxer and/or decoder built-in. The current builds are scaled down to basic so the avcodec is naturally much smaller, with support for fewer codecs. If you let me know what you are trying to play I can try to add the necessary demuxer/decoder. Also, the current builds have no cryptography library.

Please take the new version from codebergs

I think if you are using a pre-built mingw toolchain, most are the default minimum of Windows 7 so the winpthreads will be incompatible with Windows XP. I built a XP compatible toolchain from scratch to avoid those problems. The @Reino script also does that and uses pthreads-w32.