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yt-dlp_win7.exe is the usual one. What is the advantage of using yt-dlp_win7.zip with extracted libraries to _internal? How long does it take to prepare more than a dozen builds for an update?

Since there now a separate, required build for Windows 7, can you please add a small link in the signature? So far no problems.

Those devices might work since there is no discrete sound card or other multimedia device, but might not given that there is no official Server available and they haven't had to proof their drivers for it. You can see how the block C000 0000 to E1FF FFFF (256+256+32 MB) is reserved for video in addition to others. There seem to be two video cards active.

Where does the kernel come from if Server R2 is only 64-bit?

That depends on the devices you have plugged into your computer. Like a video adapter might map around 300 MB to it. Other PCI cards get some. The consumers can be found in the device manager (View -> Resourced by type, Memory). So you can only get more memory by not having a good video card, which is not fun. There is no 32-bit Windows Server anymore, so that is not a possible path. It is either Windows NT 6.1 x64, or, Server 2003/2008 with PAE (not R2 but "Vista").

The SABR thing comes and goes. At the moment downloading works. I can't get anything from the safari HSL method from most videos using the format number that previously worked. I wonder how is it in Google's interest to maintain this multitude of formats. Imagine how many videos they have and now have to devote several times the storage space on their cloud. They could just have h.264 or 3 or so bitrates and it would work great.

I hear that you want to use the safari HLS. But what is the benefit of it? A backup when the tv client stops working? The file sizes I am getting are similar to normal download. But the numbers are all different. There is an entry for different languages (I don't know how that is possible when the video is in English). https://pastebin.com/RYrK840T

What formats/numbers are in the Safari HLS list? Are they better than what we get now?

It works again. And the command line keeps growing.

Google is throwing a new rock into the works. I am getting 403 Forbidden after 10 MB is downloaded with Win7 DLP (pee). "D:\apps\youtube-dl.exe" -f 299/137/298/136/22/bestvideo,140/bestaudio[language=en]/bestaudio --fixup never --restrict-filenames --no-check-certificate --hls-prefer-native -o "t:\working\%(title)s- %(id)s .%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGH9jgSjkU

Had to update today because nothing was working at all, only a bunch of errors. Seems that the standard build from the signature of yt-dlp (pee) no longer works on Windows 2008 R2. I had to get the Windows 7 build. GetCPFileNameFromRegistry could not be located in the dynamic link library kernel32.dll

It is the end of New Moon for me. My bank (SEB Bank) designed an new "smart" payment form, which shows a blank area with some dialog shifted off screen to the right. This form lags even in Supermium. I would be lost without Supermium. https://i.imgur.com/kTBJjWj.png

Changing BIOS settings is not the same as "reflashing" the BIOS, which shouldn't be needed after changing the battery. Or does it now? Do most drives require AHCI? I've only found this with one drive that was extremely slow in compatibility mode (5 MB/s) because it didn't fully implement Ultra DMA.

I am using DLP 2025-08-20. SABR has gone away again for now and downloads work. It is not great that I need to wait some 10-20 seconds to see if download would start, but what can you do. I haven't seen very poor video quality again recently.

Video authors on the web often insert short clips from a feature film or a television programme, for example, the StarTrek guy facepalming, or a businessman saying to another that "plastics is the future" or the line saying "a few moments later" in a strange accent. This also sometimes happens on Facebook where a gif is added to the comments section. Sometimes the same clip is reused, but often we see new ones never before picked by this author. How do they find these? Surely they can't watch a whole film to find them while also producing their video in a timely fashion. Does there exist a database of these that they search?

I posted an example video above. It hasn't been reprocessed to increase the quality as of yet. All these new codecs serve for planned obsolescence when existing ones already work really well and over time become free as patents expire. Having video being double the size of audio is ridiculous. Usually it's something like 10:1 with compression.

Wrong thread! I intended to post about Supermium.

You write many thoughts that are only tangentially connected. What formats YT gives differ from title to title. I ask it to give me h.264 video for ease of decoding (I surprise myself to say this) with fallback to other best video. For an example of 25 vs 50 frames, open a DVD that has a feature as well as behind the scenes extras. When a person speaks waving his arms around at 50 or 60 fps, I feel like I could reach into the computer screen as if it was a window. I only uploaded the literal video to demonstrate its quality. The audio is rather poor coming from a musician who seems to have a stuffed throad but I don't know what to blame for that. It's 128 kbit/s. When I download from YT, I get separater video and audiio files.

Is ChromeOS powerful enough or has GPU to decode VP9? It gives basically the highest possible resolution, sometimes 60fps. Example of current quality: http://j7n.sytes.net/temp/ytqual/ Video 10 MB, audio 5 MB.

YouTube has something new on their end again. No mention of SABR at all anymore. There is new line in the app that says "Sleeping for 5 seconds as required by the site." No big deal about that. Requesting 720p or 1080p h.264 video gives extremely poor quality compared to how it was before. The bitrates for a talking head segment are 240 kbit/s and 860 kbit/s respectively. Requesting no/default format gives VP9 in extremely large size and demand for the computer. Best that they have 3840*2160 @ 30 fps, 9500 kbit/s. Google really wants to push their VP9. When nothing works, this still does.

The DirectX DLLs are an issue on every Windows. You're supposed to install a DX redistributable or get them bundled with a game. At one point I heard there was a license pushback from Microsoft when software included those DLLs, but now it just happens. Unlike other DLLs, XAudio2_6.dll and its siblings need to be registered and therefore also put into the system folder so that all applications have access to them. Not having XAudio results in a hard to troubleshoot situation of no sound in games from Bethesda. They don't say that the DLL wasn't found. I strongly dislike Microsoft's media stuff. It's big, slow and unncessary given free alternatives. Games that include everything they need work more reliably on all versions of Windows. A game is a gig or bigger and can afford to bundle a video codec. The new XnView MP (not lean, built on a framework) refuses to start because it is linked to mfplat.dll. I got a couple audio editors, I think one of them was from Acoustica, also refusing to start. The fault as I see it is with them because we have other graphics and audio editors that work great. They usually work way faster being older. In Server 2022 the desktop pack is mandatory. Not having it results in all GUI being inaccessible.

What is a reliable, performant remote desktop software today, which doesn't have any interations with Windows, and can run on a variety of older Windows versions? I would like to be able to access my computer remotely on a guest computer where I may not make any configuration changes. The server would run on Server 2008 R2 x64 that is somewhat weak, and the client would likely run on Windows 10 and 11. The client should be portable. The server should not do heavy-handed security or compression. The available bandwidth is 60-100 Mbit/s. I could open a (secret) port for Windows Remote Desktop which is fast, but I am afraid that it would refuse to run on new Windows for this or that reason, as is often the case. I wouldn't be able to confirm any logins on the server or tweak it.

Today DL works again without SABR.

So far the WinXP and Win7 versions have equal functionality, right? "makes my antivirus solution go completely berserk" That's the trouble with anti-virus, and it uses your computer power to display his berserk behavior.

I didn't know that a Windows 7 program existed because it wasn't in his signature. They might not finish SABR before the end of Python. I don't want to do anything with Potoken because you need to dig it out of the browser repeatedly and then pass it into the command-line. I don't touch command line after initially setting it up.