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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Megatoph on April 08, 2008, 05:30:30 PM

Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: Megatoph on April 08, 2008, 05:30:30 PM: hey I'm havin a problem with Youtube. when ever I try to watch a Vid it won't download. when I click the like and a vid vewer comes up it won't do anything. can somebody give me another site address for a diffrent Vid site? Youtube ain't workin for me.
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: DarkHououmon on April 08, 2008, 05:36:10 PM: There are other video streaming sites like YouTube out there. Here's a few:

http://www.livevideo.com (http://www.livevideo.com)
http://www.veoh.com (http://www.veoh.com)
http://www.vidilife.com (http://www.vidilife.com)
http://www.megavideo.com (http://www.megavideo.com)
http://www.dailymotion.com (http://www.dailymotion.com)
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: Clawandfang on April 08, 2008, 05:40:57 PM: Or what you could do is to use www.savetube.com, to actually download the Youtube vids. Although this is a great hassle, don't be put off by having to convert the files or anything. With a decent set of codecs even Media Player should be able to handle .flv files.
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 08, 2008, 07:27:29 PM: Are you using firefox? For some reason, my firefox browser isn't streaming video anymore. Probably a stupid auto update that made a worse situation. Try using IE.
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: Petrie. on April 08, 2008, 07:39:21 PM: Youtube does have scheduled maintenence too you know.
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: Mornai on April 08, 2008, 08:03:20 PM: Yes they do, however When they are performing Site Maintenance, you can still watch videos, just not anything that adds/deletes something from The site. (ex: sending messages, commenting/rating Videos, deleted messages, etc.)
Title: Can't get Youtube vids to work!
Post by: Petrie. on April 09, 2008, 08:03:37 AM: True, but I've had outages of streaming video when they're performing maintenence. Should be simply expected.