Youtube and Windows 98

Question for all you Windows 98 die-hards: how do you keep up with the Web
and watch videos with W98? I have W98 on my old desktop and also in a
virtual machine on my XP laptop; Firefox is my browser. When I go to a
YouTube page I get this message:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's
Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."

But the latest Flash player requires more recent operating systems than W98.
So how can one view videos with W98? I would really like to keep using W98.
But if basic Web content such as videos is not available in W98, that's a
real problem.

Thanks,
Larry

On 2009-11-08, Larry wrote:

Question for all you Windows 98 die-hards: how do you keep up with the Web
and watch videos with W98? I have W98 on my old desktop and also in a
virtual machine on my XP laptop; Firefox is my browser. When I go to a
YouTube page I get this message:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's
Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."

But the latest Flash player requires more recent operating systems than W98.
So how can one view videos with W98? I would really like to keep using W98.
But if basic Web content such as videos is not available in W98, that's a
real problem.


Unplug add-on in Firefox to grab the flv video address,
VLC media player to play the FLV video.

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Unplug add-on in Firefox to grab the flv video address,
VLC media player to play the FLV video.

I installed Unplug.

I downloaded and Installed VLC, but it wouldn't run as it said shell32.dll
was missing, even though I found the file in Windows/System. Checking online
I found other people who had had same problem. One person said he
uninstalled the more recent version of VLC, which is like 1.01 or 1.03, and
went back to version .086i and that worked. So I tried that, but while
installing, it tell me something is wrong, and stopped installation, and
with no message telling me what to do.

Larry

On Nov 10, 11:38*am, "Larry" wrote:
Unplug add-on in Firefox to grab the flv video address,
VLC media player to play the FLV video.

I installed Unplug.

I downloaded and Installed VLC, but it wouldn't run as it said shell32.dll
was missing, even though I found the file in Windows/System. Checking online
I found other people who had had same problem. One person said he
uninstalled the more recent version of VLC, which is like 1.01 or 1.03, and
went back to version .086i and that worked. So I tried that, but while
installing, it tell me something is wrong, and stopped installation, and
with no message telling me what to do.

Larry

If it's a .flv file, I found this
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player

and it works on a very old Win98, just had to install an Adobe flash
player [not the latest, but one of them] and I got full screen
viewing.

Robert

If it's a .flv file, I found this
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player

and it works on a very old Win98, just had to install an Adobe flash
player [not the latest, but one of them] and I got full screen
viewing.

______________

I'm not familiar with flv extensions. I'm mainly interested in playing
youtubes and similar videos. Unless they are the same?

I found this:

http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player/

FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over
the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash
Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. FLV content may also be embedded within SWF
files. Notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video,
Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.

So that's all good. But the bad news is it does not seem to work with W98:

Support Windows 2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista.

But the good news is, someone at that page writes:

Works for me
This is the only FLV player I've found that works on my Win98 system. It
played my FLV videos smoothly, was fast to download and didn't require .NET
Framework - highly recommended

I found this:

http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player/

FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over
the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash
Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. FLV content may also be embedded within SWF
files. Notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video,
Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.

So that's all good. But the bad news is it does not seem to work with W98:

Support Windows 2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista.

But the good news is, someone at that page writes:

Works for me
This is the only FLV player I've found that works on my Win98 system. It
played my FLV videos smoothly, was fast to download and didn't require .NET
Framework - highly recommended

If it's a .flv file, I found this
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player

and it works on a very old Win98, just had to install an Adobe flash
player [not the latest, but one of them] and I got full screen
viewing.

______________

I'm not familiar with flv extensions. I'm mainly interested in playing
youtubes and similar videos. Unless they are the same?

On Nov 10, 11:38*am, "Larry" wrote:
Unplug add-on in Firefox to grab the flv video address,
VLC media player to play the FLV video.

I installed Unplug.

I downloaded and Installed VLC, but it wouldn't run as it said shell32.dll
was missing, even though I found the file in Windows/System. Checking online
I found other people who had had same problem. One person said he
uninstalled the more recent version of VLC, which is like 1.01 or 1.03, and
went back to version .086i and that worked. So I tried that, but while
installing, it tell me something is wrong, and stopped installation, and
with no message telling me what to do.

Larry

If it's a .flv file, I found this
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player

and it works on a very old Win98, just had to install an Adobe flash
player [not the latest, but one of them] and I got full screen
viewing.

Robert

"Larry" wrote in
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Question for all you Windows 98 die-hards: how do you keep
up with the Web and watch videos with W98? I have W98 on my
old desktop and also in a virtual machine on my XP laptop;
Firefox is my browser. When I go to a YouTube page I get
this message:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old
version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash
player."

But the latest Flash player requires more recent operating
systems than W98. So how can one view videos with W98? I
would really like to keep using W98. But if basic Web
content such as videos is not available in W98, that's a
real problem.

Thanks,
Larry

"Latest" rarely means "MUST be latest", it means "swallow our
latest ejaculation or we'll be unhappy".

On my Win98SELite, Opera 10USB with the 9 something Flash
handles all that crap just fine - and it's saved in the cache -
just find the biggest files and rename/move them.



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