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It is actually the curl stage, as it is what it fails when can't do an OPT DNS query type 41 hex (65 is the decimal conversion)). No, my DNS server/resolver software doesn't support it. I should have told, but I got tired of test, renames, edits... oh dear... I know the software is old, but trusted, but, also, there shouldn't be need to hardcode EDNS queries on curl. Too paranoid, in my opinion. I tested with the "--force-ipv4" and it is the same. If the curl update is really necessary... I'll have to change the software, but it is really dumb reason :/ It works if I redirect queries to an external resolver (example: 1.1.1.1)... but defeats the purpose of using a local one in first place Do you know what is really curious? That I almost always perform formats queries first, and it does this without a problem (querying correctly an A record for www.youtube.com), but when queries it again (or direct download, without query formats first) for download... In other words, it happens at download time In the version of curl I have I don't have such an EDNS option to test.

As I don't think that it is fair to report this to yt-dlp, as I'm using your builds under Windows 7 (and the officials aren't valid for this), and so, just in case, the fault is in this build, I want to tell that your latest, this is 2026.01.19.143412, but not the previous, this is 2026.01.18.152406, there is a problem with DNS resolving. Instead request the OS to resolve an A DNS record (this is the IPv4 IP) for the host of the video www.youtube.com (after re-review is not the host of the video, it doesn't even reach that step, is www.youtube.com), requests a ?65? DNS record (question mark, 6, 5, question mark), that is absolutely invalid (there is no such record in the standard and so replies the Google DNS server). I use my own DNS resolver (local resolver, I mean, not external) and so I can inspect what is going on with DNS requests and so I'm seen it and reporting it. Where is the fault coming? I don't have the knowledge to tell. Just that in the 18th of January, it works OK. Regards. EDIT: just to add up, I double checked the hash and file download isn't corrupted. EDIT2: now that I think about it... 65 matches to the decimal value of the character A (capital A)... Might be some sort of UTF or ASCII thing? DNS is pure ASCII (or maybe ANSI), so no clue what has been introduced this issue. LAST EDIT: ok I wasted the time digging it, using wireshark in loopback mode, and 65 means code 41, which means EDNS. Why on earth yt-dlp is now requesting an EDNS record for www.youtube.com :-?

From my experience, Japanese content is highly suitable to be geo-fenced. They protect a lot of things from overseas access.

As of... about a month, or two, can't tell exact, NewMoon 28 is unable to login to AOL nor Yahoo (same parent company, same back/front systems). After input the password, nothing but a spinning circle on the submit button. Latest version/build, the same issue persists.

For the shake of test I tried the Windows 7 (32bits) binary posted with quickjs (thanks to the developer of this tiny engine) and I wonder how powerful computers do the people that develop things have? Literally, it hangs a few times through the compute, even for a fraction of a second, while resolving the YouTube challenge :/ Multiply that 2 times, as I check the available formats, and then download the desired format, and the benefits of downloading+playing performance vs viewing on the page, starts to vanish. It has been requiring more and more compute time through time but... wow Or the whole process gets optimized or... YouTube is winning by far. For those interested, I only have a Core 2 Duo. As most here, old hardware, yes. EDIT: I wasn't initially able to make the latest published x64 version (2025.11.01.082330) work with quickjs (my fault by setting the path "--js-runtimes quickjs:'c:\balbla\'" instead "--js-runtimes quickjs:'c:\balbla\qjs.exe'" because I didn't want a PATH path either ;) ) and maybe it has a slightly better performance, but not much. EDIT2: as a side note, I know that the performance drop is not by yt-dlp, nor this build, but the damn YouTube JS and the JS engine, but... just ranting.

In the case of ffmpeg, as I use for more purposes, I use upx to reduce the disk size to around 50% on each file. In terms of run time, it doesn't make to work slower. Give it a try: https://upx.github.io/ (Don't worry to use old versions, I use an old 3.x)

I just read the external JavaScript requirement and... I think I'll give up using it from here. They say that a headless browsers defeats the purpose of yt-dlp, but... an engine over a hundred MiB, a half of Firefox 115 installation doesn't? Come on... I might regret and come back to yt-dlp again, but I think I will switch to the nightmare slow downloads from web download helpers. It is more sane, from my point of view. I'm expectant for the upcoming events...

As a side note, the standalone Windows XP version doesn't work on Windows 7 x64 with the error pointing to GetCPFileNameFromRegistry on kernell32.dll, but no problem with the native. I used to run this version on Windows 7 x64 (as I switched from OS to OS and avoid two installs (aside this I can confirm that the Windows 7 version is slightly faster on its native platform, as you pointed out nicola)). I read quick, but would your release have support/be released after september? Thanks for your efforts nicolaasjan :)

Thanks @Joseph_sw I already had an override and that enabled. I ended removing the override the other day without success. I think toggling the preference fixed it :oS Weird things.

I waited till a new version to report that for X.com/Twitter.com NewMoon 28 is... "This browser is no longer supported". As no one else has reported, am I the only one? This happens on a fresh profile (so no preferences interfering) since a couple of updates. I'm "using" Firefox 115 for X.com/Twitter.com now but... while is smoother with JavaScript is so heavy...

But the dns block is just to avoid the crash, and maybe the CPU usage (no happening here), nothing else, right? Let's see if there is a fix soon. That word is language agnostic and casts the same feeling with any language.

Thanks despite Cloudflare issue is still there. Best test page, at this moment (they didn't have the Cloudflare protection before), haveIbeenpwned.com I'm going to take the opportunity to ask if someone else has problems with Steam Wishlist page with NewMoon 28. It is some form of delayed CSS loading as it loads right, but after load all resources, the page displaces some elements. I don't update in the weekly basis, just when I remember or have an issue, and I don't know when exactly happened but all was fine until a few months ago I updated and... here it came the problem: As far as I tested before, it happened as well with a clean profile.

I just came to confirm/report the Cloudflare captcha issue that I started to have since yesterday. I sent them feedback (as it worths something...) Thanks whenever you can fix it. Or Palemoon guys can do something. It is a shame that is happening to the latest "Pale" too :S

Great, post lost on forum error :rolling eyes: yeah!! I was writing that the usual errors, nicolas, and I'd have to switch, 7jn (I'm not going to write all over)

Mmmm I see that the youtube-dl download hasn't been updated, but is "buggy" lately with several errors. Is the end of updates for youtube-dl and time to switch to yt-dlp? I'd prefer not, because I already created an environment for my downloads with youtube-dl and would have been a waste of time :S

Whatever it is, thanks for your work. Waiting for the fix from upstreams or whatever :) I found recently your XP build and I really enjoyed it :)

Thanks for your replies @Mathwiz , @soggi , @AstroSkipper. NewMoon 28 IS compatible with XP SP2 (that is not what I was asking, well, yes, which browsers were), but which one was had the latest engine and compatible with XP SP2. If NewMoon and Serpent are the latest, then all is ok :) Thanks for your replies. P.S.: after a few days I thought my post was just ignored (reasonable, in the other hand) and I didn't receive notifications, so sorry my late reply and the noise on the thread.

I feel dumb asking this, but with the amount of browsers builds... I lost the track... Which is the browser, with the most most "up-to-date"/compatible engine with sites, and that has support, or is compatible, with Windows SP2 (aka Service Pack 2)? The point is that since long ago I use NewMoon 28... but I don't see updates to the engine with always the same messages at the blog: "No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build." So... that's it, which is the latest browser for XP SP2?

One way or another, you better don't think this is permanent. Just having a look to Prophpbb terms of service (http://www.prophpbb.com/terms.hml), the site could be deleted by inactivity and it hadn't too much since it began working under Prophpbb service.

No news anywhere, but the site is up again. I found yesterday by luck while, when I was reinstalling win2k because of motherboard change, I searched for the wrappers stuff I didn't remember and Google brought to me this URL: http://win2kgaming.prophpbb.com/

Nop. Only you, me, the blog by blackwingcat and, if you want to try, Oldboy2k at thechspot Looks like he has been logged at that site and he was and admin there. Maybe he has more information.

Yes, gone again. The saddest thing is that I recommended a free site to avoid this and forget to pay for a domain name (because that happened this time, the domain name has expired, at least the first days), dhost.info, that I'm using from a few years now for a forum/page, without problems.... :-/ (the only requirement is to have one visit a week). And the worst is that I don't get why archive.org don't crawls and archive it either :-? We are now without backup or anything but this thread and the one I posted a year back. Let's hope it comes back soon :-/

One of the admins of the site left this thread on other forum with the explanations and download links (or where to find them): http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic167843.html I hope they find a new host soon.

All files registered successfully. (and working) But what I won't request you is to make it every new release if that is an extra effort and only for me... (hope there are other users out there )

What's that? The wrappers are to make available functions not available by default on the host OS. As for Windows 98 there are the KernelEx wrappers, for Windows 2000 we have the OldCigarette Wrapper and BlackWinCat KDW wrapper. Now the Win2kgaming forum is down but you have a thread now here: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic167843.html They work with games and applications with the wrappers and, sometimes, little hacks. But I think I'm not even gonna try with these filters :S I think I'll consider to report to the MPC-HC team but I don't hope them to hear me a little. Indeed, I'm not very interested on MPC-HC player. I was using your filters (as you extracted from the project) to play content on BSPlayer 0.86 (yes, you read the version correctly, very old, I know). I only use the MPC in the latest version before HC, 6.4.9.0. While the filters from DSFP 4.01 causes 0 problems, I'll enjoy them. Thanks for your reply anyway It was helpful