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Topic: Can no longer play my downloaded you tube videos |
John McGuire
From: Swansea,Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 8:19 am
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I downloaded sevral videos from youtube using video downloader. The videos are all on my computer under my videos. Usued to work fine, now when i try to play one I get an immedieate message that video player has encounterd a problem and needs to close. This happens with windows media player and real player. Suggestions??? |
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Tobie Schalkwyk
From: South Africa
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 10:32 pm
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You might have a previous instance of your media player running invisibly (due to an unsunsuccessful exit previously), blocking the start of a new instance - or holding onto your youtube file. Have you performed the first commandment of all problem solving in Windoze - a restart? |
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John McGuire
From: Swansea,Illinois, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 8:33 am
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Yes I have tried a re-start. Other videos play that are on my hard drive just not the ones that I downloaded from Youtube. I did burn a disc with some videos, could it be the format changed and now wmp does not recognize it. It displays the problem encountered and needs to close as soon as I click on a video to play it ?????? |
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Tobie Schalkwyk
From: South Africa
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 10:23 pm
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John McGuire wrote: |
could it be the format changed |
It sounds like it. Do they have the right extensions (i.e. are they really of the file type as indicated by their extensions)? |
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