dddave Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 I downloaded YouTube a while ago but have never successfully had a video run. Either it doesn't run at all or runs for about 5 seconds then pauses for about 30; annoying to say the least. I have a pretty up-to date Toshiba notebook, P4 mobile processor, 768K Ram, 40G hd with a lot of space...windows XP. I run with AVG and Zone Alarm, browser is Firefox. Any suggestions?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 dddave, probably you need more than 768 mb, but what's the processor speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Hi, And what is your internet connection speed? My guess is that the stopping is due to your connection being too slow. Happens to me as well. If a long movie I tend to open the page, start the video and continue browsing on another page. Periodically check to see if the entire video has downloaded. Once it has, I watch it. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted January 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Whoops, forgot to mention that I have ToT ADSL 1000Kbs; Download speed sometimes fluctuates but MyTube is always a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted January 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Processor speed is 2.80GH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglesoup Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 it probably is down to connection speed. However in saying that mine played ok with a 1MB connection, with occasional videos that stopped. Now I have a 3.2 MB connection and they play well, but still get buffering sometime. i think the connection speeds aren't consistent and maybe the site has some problems. I m in the uK now, so maybe that makes a difference. I want to be able to download of utube...but its seems like a complicated process... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 2.8 GHz in combination with 768 MB RAM (I still have my 486 with windows 3.1 - worlds most stable OS ever - 8 MB RAM and processor speed 33 MHz (?), 2 harddisks 256 + 512 MB) should be enough, either you've too many program running eating your memory or it's like KS said the internet speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 with youtube two good tricks. 1 - As soon as the video starts and while still buffering, hit pause button 2 - keepvid.com iis a good tool to save the video's, however they are kept in a FLV format, so you'll need VLC or similar to play the file OR Go to your temp folder and look for the file, it will be a large fucker with no extension usually, copy it somewhere to keep, add .lv to the end, and again play in VLC or similar there is even a web site that play deleted youtube files (anything showing less than the hint of a nipple) however you need the user name to find them. Apparently youtube bans a file, but they dont always delete it! DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Downloaded YouTube? There's nothing to download except the videos themselve. Then you go and get all posessive and start talking about "MyTube"??? Just giving you a hard time. As KS said, just browse somewhere else while the video loads, then return. You can mute the sound so you don't get stop-and-go noise. I sometimes will load 5-10 videos at a time, no problems, with a machine less powerful than yours and a True 1.2 line. You can also use Firefox' video downloader extension to actually download the video to your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Hey Here is a programme that might help you and many others here its called " VDownloader 0.2 " I came across this free download on a link on a " music blog " a couple of weeks ago. It allows you to download any video from you tube and google ( i have only bothered d/loading from you tube so far) and store them on your hard disk,I'v already downloaded a lot and after burned music vids to dvd or cd's etc After you've downloaded this programme "VDownloader 0.2 " you must store / keep two programmes in the same directory here is the link,hope it is of some help http://www.softpedia.com/progViewOpinions/10-5-295,.html Cheers,Vincent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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