Can't use YouTube

Sjouke Burry wrote:

Original URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGS1...feature=hp_SLN

On the same youtube page there is a link to the same movie, which
works.

I don't see it.

Post the URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIxS5...eature=popular

That is not the same video.

That is some luzer with a video (or set of video's) titled " J!ZZ-NEY
WORLD!"

98 Guy wrote:
Sjouke Burry wrote:

Original URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGS1...feature=hp_SLN
On the same youtube page there is a link to the same movie, which
works.
I don't see it.

Post the URL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIxS5...eature=popular

That is not the same video.

That is some luzer with a video (or set of video's) titled " J!ZZ-NEY
WORLD!"
The same title as I saw at the first

Sjouke Burry wrote:

That is not the same video.

That is some luzer with a video (or set of video's) titled
" J!ZZ-NEY WORLD!"

The same title as I saw at the first

That is not the video that Ed is trying to watch.

On 20/07/10 02:48, Sjouke Burry wrote:
98 Guy wrote:
Sjouke Burry unnecessarily full-quoted:

Original URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGS1...feature=hp_SLN

On the same youtube page there is a link to the same movie, which works.

I don't see it.

Post the URL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIxS5...eature=popular



Sjouke Burry,

The link you gave is to a different video by some guy called Jizz Ney.

My original link refers to a Channel 4 Big Brother program.

Ed

On 19/07/10 13:45, 98 Guy wrote:
Ed wrote:

Hey 98 Guy,

Making some progress here.. Now have Flash WIN 10,0,12,36 installed.

Can now play some vids on YouTube. But only some!!

With your configuration, can you play, for example, the file at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGS1...feature=hp_SLN

I get this message:

----------
This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your
country on copyright grounds.
----------

If you ask me, Youtube should not accept videos that put geographic
restrictions on viewability.

Note the following:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...d323c8de&hl=en

Some people there are saying that Channel 4 doesn't want people *in* the
UK to see these video's on youtube. Since I am not in the UK, it's not
clear if this is an error in geo-location sensing or not.

There is a firefox addon called Phzilla, which can be downloaded from
he

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3239/

A youtube video that shows Phzilla in action is he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9ZfcgA-5U

Phzilla allows you to bypass country-based rights restrictions somehow.
But it won't install on Firefox 2.0.0.20 - only version 3.

Another technique (which doesn't seem to work any more) was to modify
the URL as follows:

Original URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGS1...feature=hp_SLN

Modified URL:
http://www.youtube.com/v/7dGS1jqbNwc&feature=hp_SLN

Doing that brought up what looked like the first frame of the video (a
bunch of people - looks like 13 people - most of them female, sitting in
a room, with the title "Big Brother's Little Brother").

The video screen is correctly formatted, with the play button in the
middle of the picture. But when I press the play button, I get this
message:

-----------------
This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your
country on copyright grounds.
-----------------

In doing some research on this, I found these other suggestions:

You can start using Tor software - http://www.torproject.org/, using
which you can change your IP to US based ips. Tor also has some really
handy firefox addons like Torbutton and foxtor.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3606/

I've also seen something called Vidalia (a tor client I think).

If you have a good download speed, you can also download the video onto
your computer and then watch it, a service like keepvid is perfect to
download youtube videos.

http://keepvid.com/

Finally, there's also the suggestion to use a UK-based web proxy, but in
the dozen or so attempts I made so far, I've yet to find one that
actually works with your sample youtube video.


OK, 98 Guy,

Thanks for all those suggestions. I will try them out in due course.
But, as you say, there may well be problems viewing some Channel 4
programs here in the UK.

But on a more general point, when I try to view many other YouTube
videos, I still continue to get the error message:

" You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video.
Download it from Adobe."

This happens even though I have a real genuine version of Flash
10,0,12,36 installed. And when I click on the download link, it takes
me to the Adobe page offering to install Adobe Flash Player version
9.0.277.0 which of course is the earlier version that I used to have!!

It seems that I have probably reached the limits of my system's
capabilities ;-((

Ed

Ed wrote:

OK, 98 Guy,

Thanks for all those suggestions. I will try them out in due course.
But, as you say, there may well be problems viewing some Channel 4
programs here in the UK.

When you are on youtube, go to the bottom of the screen.

At the very bottom will be some text that says Language, Location, and
Safety Mode.

What country does your Location say?

But on a more general point, when I try to view many other YouTube
videos, I still continue to get the error message:

" You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video.
Download it from Adobe."

I was getting that message when trying to watch your video through
UK-based proxies.

One possibility is some security features built into Flash known as
"policy files".

This page shows a list of various flash security whitepapers and
explanations:

http://www.flash-standard.com/devnet.../security.html

I can't find anything useful (yet) in those documents, but I'm wondering
if this is a side effect of a "cross-domain policy file".

Can you view *any* youtube video?

wrote:

I used to be able to watch videos on YouTube

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd reply because I
was fighting with the same hassles from Firefox.

Stop being a dick-wad and download KernelEx from he

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

Then you can install Flash 10.x on your win-98 system and watch all the
you-tube you want, even with FF 2.0.0.20.

Anyone running Windows-98 and not using KernelEx at this point is just
being a dink.

I'd like to tell Youtube what to do with their annoying
"Browser needs updating BS.

Download user-agent switcher:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/

And then set your user-agent to Firefox 3.what-ever and you won't get
the nag message.

wrote:

Stop being a dick-wad and download KernelEx from he

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

And what is this going to do to my installation of Windows?
I never trust any of this aftermarket stuff.....

That's why I'm saying stop being a dick-wad.

If you're going to keep using Windows 98 today, in 2011 (like I am) then
you've got to reach out and look at what other people are developing for
win-98 to make it compatible with **** like new browsers and multi-media
players.

KernelEx is the best thing to come along for windows 98. It allows you
to install and run stuff that normally requires Win-2k or XP. That
includes flash version 10.x, Firefox version 3.x and 4.x, VLC, Google
Earth, and others.

There is an active users group for it he

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1309...elex-45-final/

Ever since many web sites switched from requiring Flash 9 to Flash 10,
that has dramatically reduced the utility and usability of Windows 98
for general web-based browsing usage and usefulness, unless you install
KernelEx that is.

wrote:

KernelEx is the best thing to come along for windows 98.

I really only have one major question. What files in
Win98se are changed or modified?

The KernelEx installer changes 80 bytes in kernel32.dll to make it ready
for new symbol resolve engine (KernelEx Core) and to disable platform
checks of executables. No other system files are modified. I'm pretty
sure it saves a backup copy in your \windows\sysbckup directory (or - it
will create that directory and put a copy of your original kernel32.dll
there). It has it's own un-install program that will restore your
original file.

Finally, will I really need to do all that tweaking in the
registry, or is that only for specific programs?

You might have to make one change in your registry to allow Flash 10 to
install.

Now, here's where I'm not sure which is the correct or necessary change
to make. The instructions written in March 2009 state that this needs
to be done:

--------------------------
If this key does not exist, then create it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

In that key, create a new string value and call it "CurrentVersion".
For it's value, make it "5.1".
--------------------------

What I had done in the past was this:

------------------------
Navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion

Change the value of the string called "Version" to "Windows NT"
Change the value of the string called "VersionNumber" to "5.1"

Remember - change the VALUE of those strings - don't change their NAMES
by renaming them. To change their value, right-click on them and select
MODIFY.
-----------------------

So I'm pretty sure that one of the above changes needs to be made to the
registry after KernelEx is installed to be able to install Flash verison
10. I can say that I've performed the second modification, and that
enabled me to install Flash player version 10.1.102.64.

The only requirement for KernelEx is that you have Microsoft Layer for
Unicode (unicows.dll) present in your /windows/system directory. Here's
where you get that file:

Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU) 1.1.3790.0 (UNICOWS.DLL)
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...42/unicows.exe

I really only want to install Firefox 3.x and Flash 10.
I dont see any need to upgrade anything else nor do I have
any XP software that I want or need.

I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and a more
capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

======================

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and
framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD,
VCD, and various streaming protocols. It is simple to use, yet very
powerful and extendable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/...2.exe/download

wrote:

I cant say anything bad about any of this. Its great !!!!

Thanks

No problem.

One thing about Firefox. It's retaining every website I ever used.
I did the "clear private data", clear cache, cookies, etc....
What file is storing this info? I want it removed.

Clearing private data should have removed the history.

I'm assuming this file is stored in the
windows/application data/mozilla/firefox folder, because I
did remove FF 2 after I found ver 3 working well, and these
things are still there.

It's a file called history.dat, and it is in the folder that you
mentioned. Delete that file if necessary.

Thanks

One more thing.

A lot of people didn't like how Firefox 3 changed the way that the
history drop-down list is displayed from the address bar (I know that I
didn't like the change). There's an add-on that makes Firefox 3 look
like the old firefox 2 in that regard. It's called "Oldbar", and can be
found he

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227/