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Old August 15th 07, 10:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Capt K Ripendran
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but NOT in Windows
98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum of Windows 2000?
Is there any patch that requires to be downloaded and installed?
Capt K Ripendran


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Old August 15th 07, 11:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Miles Copeland
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:

I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran



I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.

To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.

The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.

I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.
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Old August 15th 07, 10:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
lb
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

On Aug 15, 4:42 am, "Capt K Ripendran" wrote:
I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but NOT in Windows
98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum of Windows 2000?
Is there any patch that requires to be downloaded and installed?
Capt K Ripendran


Go he
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

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Old August 16th 07, 02:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Dan
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

I just wanted to mention briefly that Windows Media Player 9 is the last and
latest Windows Media Player that supports 98SE. Windows Media Player 10
supports XP but not 98SE.

"Miles Copeland" wrote:

"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:

I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran



I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.

To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.

The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.

I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.

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Old August 16th 07, 11:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
James[_2_]
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan wrote:
I just wanted to mention briefly that Windows Media Player 9 is the last and
latest Windows Media Player that supports 98SE. Windows Media Player 10
supports XP but not 98SE.



"Miles Copeland" wrote:
"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:


I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran


I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.


To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.


The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.


I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


Are you on dial-up? If so can you play videos on other sites,without
them hesitating every once in a while. I couldn`t play videos well at
all until I went to cable.

James

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Old August 17th 07, 07:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Capt K Ripendran
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

I already have WMP 9.0 and now I have installed Adobe Flash Player 9.0 and
even after that the same problem crops up. I have a Broadband connection at
speeds upto 2Mbps. It is NOT so much that I want to play videos as to
listening to music of my choice!

Does some adjustment needs to be done in Multimedia? There is a break in the
audio every 5-10 seconds!
Thanking you
Capt K Ripendran


"James" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan wrote:
I just wanted to mention briefly that Windows Media Player 9 is the last
and
latest Windows Media Player that supports 98SE. Windows Media Player 10
supports XP but not 98SE.



"Miles Copeland" wrote:
"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:


I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran


I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.


To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.


The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.


I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


Are you on dial-up? If so can you play videos on other sites,without
them hesitating every once in a while. I couldn`t play videos well at
all until I went to cable.

James



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Old August 17th 07, 11:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Anonmyous
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:

I already have WMP 9.0 and now I have installed Adobe Flash
Player 9.0 and even after that the same problem crops up. I
have a Broadband connection at speeds upto 2Mbps. It is NOT
so much that I want to play videos as to listening to music
of my choice!

Does some adjustment needs to be done in Multimedia? There
is a break in the audio every 5-10 seconds!
Thanking you
Capt K Ripendran




How fast is your processor?

If you have an old computer, you may not have enough horsepower
to decode a flash stream and play it at the same time. Flash
decoding seems to be cpu intensive, as is playing

As a work around, when using a slow comptuer, I click pause in
the flash player and let it download and then click play to play
the downloaded file.
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Old August 22nd 07, 05:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
[email protected]
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

Heck, I can play YouTube videos using IE 5.5. Just make sure you have
Flash player installed. I can also use one of the latest vers of
Firefox.

Now as for the content of garbage on YouTube, no comment !!!!

----------------


On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:12:56 -0700, Miles Copeland
wrote:

"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:

I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran



I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.

To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.

The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.

I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.


  #9  
Old August 22nd 07, 05:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
[email protected]
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Default Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

I play YouTube videos on dialup. I just shut off the sound and do
something else while they load, then hit REPLAY. It often takes and
hour for them to download.


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:03:43 -0700, James wrote:

On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan wrote:
I just wanted to mention briefly that Windows Media Player 9 is the last and
latest Windows Media Player that supports 98SE. Windows Media Player 10
supports XP but not 98SE.



"Miles Copeland" wrote:
"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in
:


I am able to play YouTube video/audio in Windows XP SP2 but
NOT in Windows 98 SE!
Is it NOT designed such as Skype which requires a minimum
of Windows 2000? Is there any patch that requires to be
downloaded and installed? Capt K Ripendran


I play YouTube videos fine in Win 98 SE using Opera 9.22, and
Flash player 9,0,16,0.


To my knowledge, I installed Opera and Flash player long ago and
they and youtube just worked.


The only trick I know of is sometimes it takes multiple clicks
to get it arted.


I recall some statements on the youtube site that you needed WMP
10. With 98 I have only WMP 9 but it seems to work.- Hide quoted text -


- Show quoted text -


Are you on dial-up? If so can you play videos on other sites,without
them hesitating every once in a while. I couldn`t play videos well at
all until I went to cable.

James


 




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