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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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.

--
http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ -!- http://www.rr.dds.nl/
http://www.dread.demon.nl/

"Larry" wrote in
:


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.



--
There are only two classifications of disk drives: Broken drives
and those that will break later.
- Chuck Armstrong

"Larry" wrote in
:


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.



--
There are only two classifications of disk drives: Broken drives
and those that will break later.
- Chuck Armstrong

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;

Win-98 diehards don't run 98 as a virtual process.

Look. The PC I'm typing this on has an Intel P4 CPU which I think is
either a full Pentium or a Celeron running at 2.4 or 2.6 ghz (socket
478, 13-micron process). It has 512 mb ram and an Nvidia GeForce4 MX
440 AGP-8X video card.

We're talking technology circa 2003 or 2004.

It has win-98se installed on it. Not win-98 running as a virtual
process under XP.

I have Sun Java JRE version 1.6.0_07 running on this system (I probably
should have a more recent version 5 running...)

I have flash version 10.0.12.36.

The default browser is Firefox 2.0.0.20.

Now, I have flash 10 because I happened to have something called
KernelEX installed at the time that my system did an auto-update for
Flash. Ordinarily, a win-9x system would have Flash 9.something.

I can play any and all youtube videos with this system.

But the latest Flash player requires more recent operating
systems than W98.

No, that's wrong.

Adobe is still supporting Flash version 9. Why don't you perform a
manual download for it?

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/f...h_player_9.exe

And while you're at it, install the latest Java JRE for win-98 (JRE 5
update 22).

For some reason, Sun Microsystems is a ****ing asshole of a company, and
wants you to jump through all sorts of hoops to download JRE 5 Update
22. Here is a direct download (stripped of all bull****):

http://tinyurl.com/yex7tkd

That is a direct sun.com url. The actual url is too long to be accepted
by my usenet server.

The file name is jre-1_5_0_22-windows-i586-p.exe. This is the full
off-line installation download file - it's about 17 mb in size.

I *believe* this will be the last version-5 Java JRE to be released -
and this just came out about a week ago. Java 5 reached end-of-life on
October 30, 2009.

Remember to un-install ALL PREVIOUS VERSION OF JAVA JRE before you
install this one. Old versions are not automatically un-installed when
you install newer versions.

Ok, I downloaded and installed Sothink FLV Player, then I downloaded and
installed the Adobe Flash player 9 something that works with W98.

I go to a YouTube page, and no video box appears, but the same message I've
seen before, that I have to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Flash
player.

So I've got the software. How do I use it to play Youtube videos?

Thanks much.
Larry

Ok, I downloaded and installed Sothink FLV Player, then I downloaded and
installed the Adobe Flash player 9 something that works with W98.

I go to a YouTube page, and no video box appears, but the same message I've
seen before, that I have to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Flash
player.

So I've got the software. How do I use it to play Youtube videos?

Thanks much.
Larry

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