Need help with running VLC 0.8.6d on Windows 95

[RayZen]

Hello. I have been trying to run VLC 0.8.6d on my install of Windows 95 OSR2 (inside VirtualBox). VLC installs, but does not run, whenever I run VLC, I get an illegal instruction error that points to LIBVLC.DLL. I have installed various updates such as DCOM update and IE 5.5.

[Goodmaneuver]

You might need to use MSVCR70 as MSVCRT in the players folder. VLC uses its own way of accessing media and will not play from NTFS drives when NTFS for 98 is used. It is the only player I cannot play from NTFS.

[Nerdulater]

I reccomend you use 0.6.0, it has the same features and works without mods.

[schwups]

https://msfn.org/board/topic/181637-vlc-player-illegal-operation-on-windows-95/

DosFreak tested 0.8.4b on 95.

 

[RayZen]

10 hours ago, Goodmaneuver said:

You might need to use MSVCR70 as MSVCRT in the players folder. VLC uses its own way of accessing media and will not play from NTFS drives when NTFS for 98 is used. It is the only player I cannot play from NTFS.

Doesn't work.

[RayZen]

9 hours ago, Nerdulater said:

I reccomend you use 0.6.0, it has the same features and works without mods.

Does it support Lua scripts? I am not able to find any folder for Lua scripts right now

[schwups]

Lua was introduced with version 0.9.2 first. See changelog (News.txt)

 

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13032/what-is-the-last-vlc-media-player-version-for-windows-98-98se-me

https://msfn.org/board/topic/175610-vlc-on-ancient-hardware/

https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Usage:Version

https://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.1.x   assertion - Contents 7.8 "With Windows Me/98/98se/95/NT you can use VLC 0.8.6i out of box."

Edited August 5, 2022 by schwups

[schwups]

On 8/4/2022 at 12:28 AM, Goodmaneuver said:

VLC uses its own way of accessing media and will not play from NTFS drives when NTFS for 98 is used.

I never had problems to play from NTFS partitions up to VLC 0.8.6i (usually KernelEx disabled) with Paragon PNTFS installed. But, I can not say anything to Win95 and vlc from my side.

[Goodmaneuver]

On 8/7/2022 at 7:50 PM, schwups said:

I never had problems to play from NTFS partitions up to VLC 0.8.6i

Good to know and I was referring to the VLC versions I have installed at the moment on ME system being VLC2.05 and 3.14. The navigation works but they will not stream the files.

 

On 8/5/2022 at 4:34 AM, RayZen said:

I have installed various updates such as DCOM update and IE 5.5

Sometimes the plugins work in the next version back in the earlier version. I have used VLC vs 2.02 and plugins of 2.05 to get an equivalent VLC 2.05 to work. It might be worth a try to see how far you can push vs 0.8.4b using a similar technique. You will need to test modules for compatibility with Dependency Walker.

Edited August 11, 2022 by Goodmaneuver

[cov3rt]

On 8/4/2022 at 11:34 AM, RayZen said:

Hello. I have been trying to run VLC 0.8.6d on my install of Windows 95 OSR2 (inside VirtualBox). VLC installs, but does not run, whenever I run VLC, I get an illegal instruction error that points to LIBVLC.DLL. I have installed various updates such as DCOM update and IE 5.5.

what i noticed is that this issue seemed to happen more frequently on newer chipsets, such as ich3-m / ich4-m and newer, but didn't seem to occur as much, if at all on 440bx based systems. i don't remember what workaround i had at the time for this, as i don't think i found any workaround, but rather only substitutes, which was to use the tcmp mod mp4 player instead. i actually discarded vlc 0.8.6d, as it can no longer even play most modern files anyways, as the codecs used for them has changed, and the program is unable to decode them properly, basically showing a black screen the entire time. tcmp mod isn't perfect, but it did at least give the ability to play up to 720p mp4 files i used, with only some screen glitches being shown here and there. 1080p may work, but i think some systems may only show a black screen, perhaps due to the gpu not "knowing" how to decode the video. i never got 1080p to work on tcmp mod on windows 95 specifically, but it does work on a windows 10 system when using the same exact program, with intel hd 4600 graphics. 

anyways, i have provided a link below ( i left a space after the "https" ) to the tcmp mod program in case you haven't already used it, it also contains a registry tweak to which you will need to manually apply to allow many audio and video file formats to automatically associate with the program, so you dont need to manually open each individual file within the program. just follow the instructions in the howtoinstall text file, and use the tcpmp.reg.txt file. 

https ://easyupload.io/6g049b

[jumper]

66 0f 10 c0 - movups xmm0, xmm0

A Pentium III or better is needed in the VM and possibly on the host. Chipset is irrelevant.

 

[RayZen]

8 hours ago, jumper said:

66 0f 10 c0 - movups xmm0, xmm0

A Pentium III or better is needed in the VM and possibly on the host. Chipset is irrelevant.

 

My VM supports SSE and other Pentium III instructions. Could the unofficial SSE driver be needed?

[jumper]

Try P4. What is the host CPU?

Don't know.

 

[RayZen]

On 9/19/2022 at 6:33 PM, jumper said:

Try P4. What is the host CPU?

Don't know.

 

That's VirtualBox, so I cannot do that normally. The host CPU is Intel Core i5-4210M, so it's not the CPU for sure

[Vort]

On 9/19/2022 at 7:03 AM, jumper said:

66 0f 10 c0 - movups xmm0, xmm0

A Pentium III or better is needed in the VM and possibly on the host. Chipset is irrelevant.

Windows 95 have no SSE support.