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Avidemux - https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Free program to work with video and audio. It is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
The last XP version of it is hidden - avidemux_2.7.7 r210228_win32.exe Windows Executable 23 MB Feb 28 2021 2:43 PM
You can download it here: https://avidemux.org/nightly/win32/
I tested it today with re-coding FullHD videofile of Saturday Night Live S50E20. The problem was that audio is E-AC3. And it need to be usual AC-3 or AAC for my TV and Blu-Ray player. With simple interface it recoded audio to AAC and didn't change video. And i got new saved file with same h.264 video and AAC audio. Took only several minutes. Good program.
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On 5/26/2025 at 9:00 PM, nicolaasjan said:
Supercomputers don't run Windows.
Right now in TOP 500 there is only Linux, but in past there was even Mac OS X supercomputers. Last time Windows Supercomputer was in TOP500 was 2015 year. There is supercomputers that run on Windows now, just they are not in TOP 500.
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Oh boy. Moonchild(!) thanked Roytam1 on Pale Moon forum:
QuoteI disabled the csp reporting because it caused out-of-memory issues due to cloudflare's check-looping. (Thanks to roytam1 for finding that workaround)
Indeed, thank you, roytam1, for everything you do for MSFN users!
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Pale moon users on their forum report, that latest version of Pale Moon pass CloudFlare check. I tried latest NewMoon version (2025-03-14) and it works.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=260900#p260900
Yet they also report that Basilisk so far not passing CloudFlare check. Yet it was promised that CloudFlare will do that to, so let's hope they will.
So if you New Moon user - no more need to use Supermium on CloudFlare protected sites like https://www.y2mate.com/en949.
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On 3/15/2025 at 12:43 PM, D.Draker said:
Funny thing, today I was unblocked on youtube. But only if I watch from Browser, which is a choppy torture on my bum PC with the first iCore Gen (similar to Quad Q9650).
I can easily watch 4K vids with MPC-HC, but NOT the freaking youtube.
Maybe it have something to do with DNS servers in browser? Maybe you need to change your DNS servers?
On 3/15/2025 at 12:14 PM, D.Draker said:I'm pretty sure only Musk can afford it now.
Musk is Ketamine addicted junkie. As smart man once said: Never trust a junkie!
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On 2/4/2025 at 11:00 PM, Cixert said:
Right now I am confused with the value given in your screenshot:
It says 104424 K OK
What does this value mean, the partition size?Ok, i finally figured out what this number means, after working with SSD on Windows 7.
This number means size of data space between the start of physical disk and start of logical disk on SSD that you selected in AS SSD.
So if you install windows 7 on empty un-partitioned SSD it will create first 500 MB service logical disc for win 7 needs, and then System C. Thus why you will have number counting in KB this 500MB logical disk before System C.
And if you created, say, 60GB System C, and selected for test logical Disk D in AS SSD - it will show number in KB of "500MB logical disk PLUS System C".
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12 hours ago, D.Draker said:
Elon Musk's social media platform is being investigated by the Paris cybercrime unit, after being reported by an MP
He is con-artist and fraudster. Jail is crying for him. But in America rich is above the law, unless they steal from other very rich people (like Bernie Madoff).
There is a good YouTube channel called Thunderf00t that expose his lies and fraud.
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Look's like CloudFlare nightmare soon may be over, Pale Moon community reach out to press and CloudFlare team apparently noticed they negative coverage in press:
QuoteWell, guess what? Suddenly now there was outreach by CloudFlare in the form of one of the senior product managers (Michael Tremante - overseeing the teams responsible for turnstile and captcha challenges) contacting me through the forum here to talk (asking to set up a meeting with the dev team and such). Isn't it remarkable how getting media coverage gets things moving?...
I immediately indicated the urgency of the matter to him; not going to take the slow road here of setting up a meeting and then going through the slow dev pipeline before the discrimination stops...The Register article title is hilarious: Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers
We finally know what browsers we using - a weirdo browsers.
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Windows going down since abandoning original Longhorn, but windows 11 is "Nightmare on the wings of the night".
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1 hour ago, D.Draker said:
Thanks, I finally got through by using a good VPN, now upon choosing a low definition 720p (.mp4) file, it redirects me to a page with an "app", but then it says the "app" doesn't work with Vista!
Finita la comedia, I guess.
No, it's not Finita. Just use torrents as i said before. I will send you links in PM. This is how i watched in 2017 - torrents.
P.S. 720p is not low definition. It is HD resolution, also i admit that YouTube low bit rate and mediocre AVC Main Profile 3.1 encoding make it look bad.
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Why you use flash drive to install windows? HP 600 should have a blu-ray optical drive. Why not install using DVD disc and optical drive?
Did your XP ISO have AHCI drivers built-in with NLite? Or change AHCI mode to IDE in BIOS.
Maybe just change HDD and try again? That's all ideas so far.
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On 2/18/2025 at 12:45 AM, feodor2 said:
Yes the browser may be ran without sandbox, same as any other stuff.
I never used this browser before. I have 2 questions:
1) What the situation with ClouFlare on MyPal68 ?
2) Is there language packs for Ukrainian language (or maybe russian), also i do prefer Ukrainian. Because my relatives don't like English interface.
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On 2/13/2025 at 9:36 PM, D.Draker said:
I'm blocked on YT, they say I'm a bot.
I usually download videos from YouTube for years with free service https://www.y2mate.com/en949
Lately it started to use online protection from CloudFlare. Now with CloudFlare quackery i downloaded latest Supermium browser as installation package and during installation check "shortcut" option + ungoogled option. With it i can use sites with idiotic CloudFlare protection.
So download this movies on your computer and watch it on your flat TV or computer. I really recommend watch that 2 movies, especially Where to Invade Next.
I also want to note - that i give that link in Indivious Nadeko front-end. It works unreliably lately, but www.y2mate.com works even whith Indivious links!
Alternatively you can just download this movies via torrent sites,
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1 hour ago, D.Draker said:
I was under the impression M. Moore was never a friend of America, is it the same anti-capitalist Moore? Then he doesn't understand the basics. American capitalism isn't the cause of the bad climate.
I don't think he is anti-american, he just have different views than many people in USA. Some views are good, some not. But i enjoyed his movies, i don't have to agree with him on everything - it's just about this movies. Remember his stance against never-ending wars on middle-east was booed in 2003. Now it's mainstream even for MAGA. They booed him 22 years ago only to took his stance in this decade. So who is Hippocratic? But i do recommend to watch 2 of his movies on links that i provided - it's legal, he himself uploaded his films on YouTube. I am really ask you both to watch them and recommend them - it's a very good movies.
And remember - he shot Bowling for Columbine - one of the greatest documentary films of all time.
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2 hours ago, j7n said:
Now on Cloudflare I get 100% cpu usage when I click on the captcha and must unalive New Moon in the task manager.
Now even 360Chrome 13.5 don't work with Cloudfare - it's just don't show small window with Cloudfare check. Several days ago it worked with 360Chrome, but now it doesn't. Seems like a total war on alternative browsers by Cloudfare.
As usual everything done for ours "security". In XXI century on West almost all negative things done for "security" - it's one of the most hated words in English language for me.
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On 2/11/2025 at 12:14 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:
But YES! AGREED! Quality of life in American *IS* getting worse.
I just want to clarify that nobody here is glad that this is happening. I am disappointed that quality of life worsening for Americans since 2008. I want for Americans to have universal healthcare and raised minimum wage and better life. That just not happening, things going in opposite directions; for the first time in American history young generation live worst then they parents - this sucks.
On 2/11/2025 at 12:14 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:Work Hard! And you do great in America.
This is not the case anymore unfortunately. It was the case in 1980s, 1990s, until 2000s. In 2007 documentary "Sicko" guy doing stitches on his arm himself, cause he can not afford go to doctor - this is unthinkable in any civilized country, citizens perform minor surgeries on themselves because they can not afford go to doctor.
I also recommend you to watch documentary from M. Moore "Where to invade next", where he compares standards of living in EU and USA.
But even this documentary did not show story's that i constantly hear from USA: person get very ill with Insurance - got check on $200.000, how can you afford that where your month salary before taxes is $3000? People who work all they life well in they 50s, still have big credit on they college education. This is inhumane.
It's not that you can not work hard, it's that you can word hard, act rational and still can end up bankrupt without medicine, without a place to live.
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23 hours ago, Cixert said:
Is it possible that both drives had mechanical failures due to using the same USB adapter?
Most likely. I don't believe in such coincidence. Better use big USB Flash drive like 64 GB or 128 GB to transfer big chunks of information using USB. And maybe try WD HDD next time? Also HDD needed to be solidly fixed when it's working, otherwise it can malfunction fast.
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On 2/7/2025 at 6:51 PM, D.Draker said:
From what you both describe, USA became a much poorer country.
Thank you!
On 2/7/2025 at 6:51 PM, D.Draker said:But one thing is clear, the US education is following the negative climate changes.
The stunning result of American elections is also reflects US education quality. I usually not embed video on forum directly, but this one need to be seen:
Here is 2 similar videos that also need to be watched:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=umpalMtQE50
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=54-gBoG6m84
How can you expect from American population care or understand global climate change if they can not show they own motherland on world map!
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4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Has the USA become a poorer country? I don't really know, to be honest.
Are you out of your mind? How can you not know about huge poverty in USA? USA have AT LEAST 37 million poor people according to USA Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing)!!!
37 millions, Carl ! And this is only official numbers which excluding many factors like medical care (how convenient for establishment, by the way, i guess with medical care and housing this numbers would be much higher) !
USA middle class is basically destroyed, which was done intentionally by redistributing wealth to the rich. And impoverish people now radicalized and search for a "simple solution" which explain sudden right-wing shift in USA last years and last elections.
4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:I have always earned above-average since the age of 21 or so and I do okay.
It's such a baby-boomer phrase.
I understand that you provably are from boomer generation, but you have access to internet and you could ask google or YouTube about how your country is doing. I personally abolished idea of moving to America almost a decade ago when i done my research and realized how impoverish USA become after 2008 financial ruin and how situation become worse and worse every year. Let alone that i have (like almost everyone) medical problems, visit to doctor cost in USA hundreds of dollars without insurance and in Ukraine it cost nothing. Appendectomy in USA according to David Pakman cost 27,495 dollars before insurance!!! In Ukraine it's free or almost free.
I know that before big war many Americans was medical tourists in Ukraine, but i was shocked to learn recently, that they STILL visiting Ukraine to have access to cheap European level medicine instead of they privatized bankrupting monstrosity machine.
You probably never heard about such left leaning YouTube channels like "Secular Talk" or "David Pakman" but i recommend you to watch they several video to learn more about situation with poverty in your country.
Wealth Inequality in America Has Never Been Worse. The Middle Class Has Disappeared
My Appendectomy If I Didn't Have Health Insurance
UN Official Shocked By Extreme Poverty, 3rd World Disease In US
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ATTENTION. Cloudflare security check stopped working in New Moon and Serpent in January. I checked in Chrome - there it's working.
Example: https://www.y2mate.com/youtube/oZaDX7cgJEo
Press download green button and see how Cloudflare check looping endlessly. Roytam1, please, can you fix it?
Serpent even crashed during that check.
Edit: Ok. i noticed that New Moon crashes too, so i searched "Cloudflare" on Pale Moon forum and this is what i find:
Pale Moon people are well aware of that issues and situation so far not resolved
Cloudflare Verification Loop issues
Cloudflare has decided to crash Pale Moon
It's hard to believe in such levels of incompetence, probably Google and Cloudflare trying to destroy alternative browsers. At this point it safely to say that no company did not made more damage to internet as Google. They really go from "don't be evil" to "just be evil as f***".
This monopolies can be defeated only by Superstates like USA and EU. But considering what happening last month in USA i must say it look disappointing.
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On 2/5/2025 at 5:03 AM, D.Draker said:
How much improvement we are to expect? Approximate percentage?
I don't know. It's depends also of what controller in that SSD, (A400 can have different controllers, depend of month and year of production) of what operation system installed - this information are not given to us by Cixert.
If that SSD was all years misaligned and run on non TRIM OS like Vista, or XP, or 2000, then it's numbers maybe ridiculously low. But if internal technology of idle state garbage collection is active there, the penalty might be not so big at all.
3 hours ago, Cixert said:So what I'm looking at is the AS SSD Benchmark Aliggment value
Well i hope you will give us screenshots of AS SSD. I want to see screenshots.
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1 hour ago, Cixert said:
Right now I am confused with the value given in your screenshot:
It says 104424 K OK
What does this value mean, the partition size?I have no idea what this number means. It's a mystery to me.
If Disk Alignment Test, MiniTool partition Wizard and AS SSD all says your partition is not aligned, then it is not aligned. You should align partition using MiniTool partition Wizard option.
1 hour ago, Cixert said:if I'm not mistaken my SSD is not AF since it has 512 byte physical sectors. Am I wrong?
I don't know any SATA3 SSD that is not 4K. As far as i know, they all are AF 4K. Where did you get this idea that Kingston A400 have 512 byte physical sectors? This is ridiculous idea. Just align your SSD with MiniTool partition Wizard, dude. And then show here screenshots of AS SSD BENCHMARKING BEFORE AND AFTER alignment performed.
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https://chatgpt.com/ seems not working in New Moon. Can it be fixed?
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Shopping for Laptop in the $500 - $700 range, what's good, what's not ?
in Hardware Hangout
Posted · Edited by Rod Steel
Fastest thing new for ~700$ is probably:
HP Pavilion 16-ag0075cl
https://hotline.ua/ua/computer-noutbuki-netbuki/hp-pavilion-16-ag0075cl-meteor-silver-9t8g7ua/
MSI Thin GF63 12UC [GF63 12UC-667]
https://ek.ua/en/MSI-GF63-12UC-667.htm
What size of screen do u want 15", 16", etc? Do you want discrete videocard or integrated?