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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.

I will use this if it remains working after SABR remains the only option. Have to block advertisements though with a regular expression: obqj2.com will likely keep changing.

Seems like they could build in a "retry" up to five times to get the requested non "SABR" download. Currently I have to do it manually: watch the console, close and reopen the link. The workinh download will likely go away soon though. Maybe it's a fluke that I'm getting it. The current process with the "potoken" ain't gonna happen unless it is made easier.

BlueTooth drivers have usually been exceptionally large. I'm glad that stuff isn't included because it isn't needed on a desktop PC. I installed Server 2022 on my test PC, and everything worked out of the box in it (except mobile devices, which I didn't test).

The SABR problem has returned. It dowloads only VP9. I have to make multiple attempts at downloading.

Ok, cool, I set it to run file operations in foreground. The processor is MediaTek Helio G81. I tried wi-fi in a public location, and it would start at 40 Mbit/s and then got throttled (because it is free). But it obviously started faster. I don't recall what brand it was. Something professional sounding. People told me to update RouterOS, but I don't have faith that the problem was fixed if it didn't look like it when the complaints were made. I still have RouterOS 6.10 because I am afraid of losing my settings or bricking the device on update. One person writes that it is possible to decrease the radio power management on the smartphone, which requires root rights. I have RB2011. It sits on a PC about a meter from a window. I can go outside 6 floors below, sit on a bench and browse the internet. I wonder how far it would reach on a clear channel. Lots of people have wireless around here. Too bad it's not possible to hack the portable device for more channels.

I love the Ghost Commander. Very compact display with lots of data on screen. It installed without the play store. The FTP client works right away. Uploading to FTP also works. But I would rather download from the computer which is more comfortable. Long files seem to easily get cancelled when I click somewhere or the screen goes dark. I need to learn my way around it. The phone doesn't play well with the router. Speed in the other direction is 50 Mbit/s. A solution apparently requires rooting to disable power management. The WiFi FTP Server opens this page. I don't see where to grant any permissions to it. App permissions has "No permissions allowed" Not allowed: Location, Notifications (of course). Other permissions contains: Home screen shortcuts (no), Show on Lock screen (no), Open new windows while running in the background (no). Maybe the SD card will only show if I have one? https://i.imgur.com/8jc9MAO.jpeg

I notice that the volume on the built in speaker on my Xiomi Redmi 14C is noticeably jerky. I do realize that the sound of the speaker can only be crap. But the volume jumps make it unnecessarily worse. It sounds like a crude expander is active. Not a compressor, but an expander. When a voice (or voice-like frequencies) comes into the foreground, the loudness rapidly increases and falls back down. This also happens in ringtones. My old Samsung phone doesn't do this. For example, the song by 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" sounds like this, capital letters representing louder sound. when I'm lying in bEd just to get IT All Out what's in my head, and I, I'm feeling a little peculiar. and so i wake in the mORNing and I step outside, i take a deep breath and i get real high, and i scream from the top of my lungs: what's goinG ON. and I sAy hey-YEAH-YEAH-YEhe hey-yEAH-yeah. i said HEY, what's goINg ON. Is this a helpful setting that can be tweaked?

For now I'll use FTP. I find the phone hard to use with a short cable attached, and it plugs in from below not the top. I also don't know enough to try to uninstall uneeded system apps, which might break things. I'm glad to see FTP is still around, and nothing as portable has replaced it. FTP "sucks" a bit when transferring many small files. Foobar2000 (for mobile) also has an FTP server and client, and they work really well including seeking with partial downloads. The internal free flash memory of about 90 GB is not so much to upload lots of data fast. Rather than inventing MTP, they could have used existing standards like FTP, SFTP or Microsoft's SMB. Maybe we're supposed to rely on a "Cloud". I find quite silly to upload files to a Cloud, only to pull them down again on the computer. For some reason, my wi-fi download speed (router to phone) is limited to about 20 Mbit/s. But if I want to send occasional photos about 4 MB a piece, or a ringtone, that is ok. WiFi FTP Server usually throws an error asking for a permission to access SD card, which I don't have. It seems that I might need to get an SD card to give that permission. Would any currently available card work?

I believe the issue is in yt-dlp-master\yt-dlp-master\yt_dlp\extractor\youtube\_video.py

I currently use this command line in New Moon. Some of it is redundant. I ask multiple audio formats to automatically pick the best choice. Usually h.264/1080p/AAC. But sometimes it is opus. yt-dlp.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" This produces 2 files for each publication. One audio, one video. I skip calling ffmpeg because I can watch them without it. If I click an MP4 to open in MPC-HC, I can hear the sound. But if I click on "high-end router," I do not, because "webm" is not an audio extension unlike "m4a". When a Matroska file contains only an audio track, the extension should be mka/weba.

I do rename them as I download them before watching, or or a few at a time. --remux-video invokes ffmpeg and remuxes to a video-only file without sound. Rather I want the audio track kept as-is but named such that it can be used. If I get AAC audio it is named m4a and the video is mp4. Opus audio should work the same. (Not all videos give AAC audio.)