Windows 98 wont play youtube videos

[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

 

[Miles Copeland]

"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.

 

[lb]

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

 

[Dan]

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.
>

 

[James]

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

 

[Capt K Ripendran]

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
>

 

[Anonmyous]

"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.

 

[98se-user@nomail.com]

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.

 

[98se-user@nomail.com]

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