Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

[Guest Capt K Ripendran]

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

[Guest Miles Copeland]

Re: Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

 

"Capt K Ripendran" <ripendran@dataone.in> wrote in

news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> 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.

[Guest lb]

Re: Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

 

On Aug 15, 4:42 am, "Capt K Ripendran" <ripend...@dataone.in> 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 here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

[Guest Dan]

Re: 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" <ripendran@dataone.in> wrote in

> news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>

> > 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.

>

[Guest James]

Re: Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

 

On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> 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" <ripend...@dataone.in> wrote in

> >news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>

> > > 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

[Guest Capt K Ripendran]

Re: 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" <jamo1937@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1187301823.247537.89410@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> 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" <ripend...@dataone.in> wrote in

>> >news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>>

>> > > 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

>

[Guest Anonmyous]

Re: Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

 

"Capt K Ripendran" <ripendran@dataone.in> wrote in

news:eXGm5aJ4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

> 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.

[Guest 98se-user@nomail.com]

Re: 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 !!!!

 

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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:12:56 -0700, Miles Copeland <miles@nospam.com>

wrote:

>"Capt K Ripendran" <ripendran@dataone.in> wrote in

>news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>

>> 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.

[Guest 98se-user@nomail.com]

Re: 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 <jamo1937@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Aug 15, 8:24 pm, Dan <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> 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" <ripend...@dataone.in> wrote in

>> >news:On5MpCy3HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>>

>> > > 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