HELP PLEASE! (VLC playing)

[guitargeek]

I have downloaded a VLC player for Mac because I wanted to play videos that were written down as URLs (without the link access, so I can't right click it and choose the "save linked file to desktop" option).

In this link:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/854896/co ... r_problem/

If you press the "More" button next to the short preview of the video description, you will see a few links that have avi extensions. When I pasted one to the address bar, the video didn't load, with or without the VLC player, and I just don't know how to play them. If you can't find the links, here is an example of one which I've just copied:


http://www.kidnationfans.com/Kid-Nation-Episode3.avi


How exactly do I view this video? I use Mac OS X Tiger. Thank you so much in advance to anyone who will be willing to assist me. THANK YOU!

[Redux]

I can't exactly follow what you're asking. You control click on the link and choose "download linked file". Is your problem that VLC does not play the files?

[guitargeek]

I'm sorry if it's been unclear. What I mean is, the metacafe link right there shows the URL only as a text and not as a link so I couldn't right click it and choose the Download Linked File option. The URL displayed is just like ordinary text that you can't press or something. So what I did was paste a link in the address bar, but then the video did not load. That wasy my problem. Thank you!

[Redux]

> what I did was paste a link in the address bar, but then the video did not load

So paste it into some kind of document that treats URLs as URLs and control click. I did that on your Kids URL in your message and it played fine on VLC.