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    They added VP9 in Pascal, which doesn't function on XP because there are no drivers. But luckily nobody releases films in VP9 format. On the web, there usually is an alternative normal h.264 video, or the bitrate is so low that the video can be played on the CPU. H.265 exists on the film "market," and is supported in second generation Maxwell. If your goal is only to transport the video stream to the GPU, something like CUVID/NVDEC is more straightforward. But that needs a working display driver. The "X" in DirectX stands for a complete package of stuff that games need.
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    If you just want to read a Discourse forum, you can focus the page and scroll it with the arrow keys.
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    How can there be a difference in picture quality between the modes if the video card's engine does the decoding with the same chip? Less resources are consumed if you choose a rendering output that doesn't copy the data. But then you may not use smooth anti-aliased subtitles or take a screenshot. The outputs differ in V-sync behavior too, and whether the picture can be rotated. Acceleration may still work when MPC-HC has a red checkmark on the output page. There used to be standalone decoder filters released with MPC-HC 1.6. I think the video decoder also supports DXVA. Microsoft always comes up with new stuff to lock customers into an upgrade path.
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    I installed from the INF. Then I tried to run the package. It is actually very small, and only extracts the same driver files to C drive. I suspect that the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service might be required by the driver, which I do not have installed. I was not successful in copying its settings from XP. The legit way of installing it is with the Desktop Experience, which brings a ton of unwanted stuff and defeats the purpose of having Server instead of Seven. What do you have under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\StiSvc ?
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    FFmpeg (or the failed LAV fork) is mostly self-contained. It includes everything in the package to work on many other non-Windows OS. They have rewritten most codecs entirely. To this day, there are recent FFmpeg builds for WinXP on Doom9. An older build can still be used to decode h.265. The author of LAV Filters and the maintainer of MPC-HC (NevCairiel and Clsid2) have no interest in old computers, so they have chosen to compile the modules in a way to depend on some calls from new Windows for input and output, and have declared CUVID to be deprecated. But the core brains of the video decoder don't depend on Windows. That is why these players have been attractive since the days of ffdshow, because they don't need external codecs.
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    I am not able to install the drivers for Canon 5600F on Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). I realize finding someone with experience in this matter is a long shot. I tried the last available driver 14.0.7a ( sd64-win-5600f-14_0_7a-ea24.exe ). It seems to have 64-bit DLLs and claims to support Windows 7 and 10. The process hangs indefinitely on "Installing device driver software" whenever the scanner is connected to a USB port. Maybe it is waiting on a component service. The driver is supposedly signed and Windows didn't complain about it. I did attempt to install 14.0.7 (without a) at first. Attempting to scan via TWAIN in this state gives an error that ScanGear was not able to communicate with the scanner. The scanner works on Server 2003 32-bit.
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    Few people would be concerned with support for XP SP2 today when even Seven is already considered old. Other programs like new Process Explorer would still crash the system.
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    F11 works in Serpent 52. Maybe the hotkey is being captured by another application. Although I have disabled most animations in New Moon 28. Full screen entry still does a gradual hiding of the bar at the top, which is laggy on heavy sites.
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    No, I got rid of it a couple years ago. I had to make a clean install of Windows and most applications, which was very disruptive. For WinXP you don't need that manifest if it doesn't link to a MSVC runtime DLL. The admin rights stuff and OS compatibility matters to Vista+. But new applications being able to crash the system is worse than the CON and AUX bug on Win98. For Nvidia video adapters there is still the CUVID interface in MPC-HC which works on WinXP. Microsoft's always does its best tie APIs to recent versions of Windows.
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    Usually the remapping will be done by the hard disk internally. The weak sectors will go into pending, then come out again. How unlikely that an error would crash the system this way instead of corrupting another piece of data. A read error would be indicated in the Event Viewer.
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    There was an issue with BSOD on old builds of Windows XP. It was caused by a manifest resource embedded in the exe. But it was on SP1. I don't recall if SP2 was affected. I solved it by installing a more recent copy of sxs.dll ( read KB921337 KB943232 ) https://msfn.org/board/topic/171473-recent-software-can-crash-xp-sp1/ Maybe you have a virus that causes a crash of csrss.exe, or it could be related to Data Execution Prevention.
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    MPC-HC takes some time to initialize a video steam from YouTube. Seeking is also unresponsive. Sometimes the sound plays but the video does not. If you download a video to disk, then you can use an old version of MPC-HC to watch it. I don't save much time by watching directly.
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    What has changed in CUVID decoding in recent versions? It is indeed more demanding than the old DXVA because they copy the data back into the memory for processing, but simpe DXVA was last available in 1.6.x. New versions only support DXVA2 on Vista+. In old MPC-HC the chosen renderer output made a difference in CPU usage. There was a weird glitch when playing 60 fps on a 60fps monitor using Overlay Mixer (the lowest demand mode) Over time the computer built up a queue of undisplayed frames (because the video was played at a slightly faster rate than the monitor), and the whole Windows GUI began lagging immensely. I suspect OS would probably crash if playback was left going. Overlay Mixer never dropped any frames and panning was super smooth.
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    I still can't make a new topic. I tried in the Microsoft Office forum... because my Office doesn't work. This problem started around the time of the Mega Sale 70% Off.
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    I am watching Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. It's been remastered in high definition to the point that you can count threads on people's jackets and grooves on Louis Lane's lips. For some reason Clark Kent's face is sometimes slightly out of focus while his jacket is sharp. Brothers D, I'm sorry it is not available on vinyl disk. lol.
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    Not that long ago I paid 50 for a GTX 750. I think people value their property slightly more here, and they have to pay €1-3 to post an advertisement. Since there are no XP-drivers for next-gen video adapters, they can't be used regardless how fast they might be.
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    They had some quirky design elements in a mostly tabular layou such as text rotated 45°. They pointed out that Firefox was no good becasue it didn't do the rotation neatly. I wouldn't have complained about it or asked support. They had a high opinion of their development and design work.
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    If they use the user agent, then it is better than other methods because you can change it. There are ways of detecting Firefox in JavaScript. Some sites don't work with Firefox regardless of the agent, and I can't do anything about that. I was banned from a private site for using Firefox within a couple of days. I can't load Elektroda at all currently. It says "Waiting for".
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    The banner looks this big on some pages. It has a blank alpha channel, and the PNG format can't deal with it. Without the alpha, the image compressed to 525 kB. https://i.imgur.com/T6wJlOg.png It's not that there is a banner that shocks me. Many sites are now adding internally hosted image, which can't be blocked, but also load faster. But the cheap design of it, which puts the legitimacy of the target site in question. After all its easy to sell thin air with software licenses. I don't know if they even come in a physical box these days. Look how they squeezed down the banner to 728x90 with everything squished.
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    It seemed odd to me that Telegram requires an active phone number to sign up on the site, while boasting about anonymity. With most websites you don't need a phone number, and can just select a user name and password. I tried to use Telegram, but it required a modern smartphone to connect with it before it can be accessed from a PC.
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    Has MSFN been hacked by Vipmeu LLC from the Arab Emirates? It's the first time I've seen a banner on this site. The first design with the white letters over christmas decorations looked amateurish. Their shop website is plain white and generic looking, and the deals seem too good to be true. I tried to create a separate topic about this but it failed with an error.
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    Intel.de: https://i.imgur.com/iMxSauZ.png
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    There is more to Intel than the user agent. I can't get in either with "Chrome" or a complete string from Opium 93. But I can load the site in New Moon with "GoogleBot/6.6.6"
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    I get an Access Denied error on Intel sites too. It probably has to do with something en/disabled in the settings. Not a big deal. After you download the required, you don't need to go to Intel again.
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    The copy from Deezer is DR13 and sounds great. They seem to have uploaded it unmastered.
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