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I am currently trying to find a non-working youtube video where I have a previous, functional version. Strange thing is, that one video I've re-downloaded now works, but a video waaaay older on youtube (uploaded 2 years ago) doesn't. You know what's REALLY strange? I just accessed my old hard drive...

How do you do that? I clicked on the link and nothing happened

Can you share one? I don't know. I don't know what 'share' means in this instance; if you mean sharing files over the Internet with friends, or putting it up onto a Torrent, I don't do that, so I can't answer that question. I just use Vlc to play downloaded youtube files. I'm running Crunchbang, ba...

Vlc doesn't play Youtube videos AT ALL on my system (ubuntu 8.10) Although it does play avi.

I don't want have to go and convert every youtube video I download

Hi, I am using a distribution based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Crunchbang 64 bit) On both this and on regular Ubuntu 8.10, I get this message when I try to play downloaded youtube videos (.flv, or videos named "Flash8oEv7, etc.) This is the message I get, cut and pasted directly from the window: No suitab...

Hello, I had VLC player in one linux distro called Yoper and it played everything from FLV to AVI to Wmv, mpeg, mp4, etc, and it played great. Now, I've switched to Mepis and I can't get VLC to work. I downloaded it from the Debian repositories under Lenny (Mepis 8) I'm trying to play a WMV file and...