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I am using an 17" Apple Powerbook 1.67, 10.4.11 OS & the VLC .0.8.6i.

I recently lost the ability to play back any video after downloading !!

I download files from You Tube, Google, Quick Silver Scree, et.al. in Firefox 3.0.1
& it looks like I am the data is being transferred.

Then I open the file in VLC & there is NOTHING there to play! It says Size: Zero KB (zero bytes)

VLC does play other files & I have no problem converting files to play on VLC, when I have them to convert.

SO my question is - what do I have to do - to get the files saved properly -
so VLC can open them.

Hi,
Could you post how you are trying to download videos from youtube and other places, as I did not hink that it was allowed directly.
There are some other websites that allow you to put in youtube urls then they convert them to video to download for you.

Morgy

you can download youtube videos using safari if you open up activity in the window drop down menu and look for the biggest file size (the video file will normally be the biggest size), select it and select copy by either right clicking it or by selecting edit and copy from the drop down menu. then open downloads from the window drop down menu and with the downloads window selected select paste from the edit drop down menu. once the file is done downloading rename it to what you want and add a .flv extension to it and enjoy.

you can use this way to download videos from any flash video player site like youtube, google, AOLvideo or other.

or better yet look at this youtube video showing you how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3nnPmx1dY

or you can use tubesock to download and convert it to another video format