On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:47 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
Steve,
Just to better understand what you are doing, let me walk through it.
1. You find a video on YouTube that is 30 minutes long.
2. You start the play and hit pause immediately (as in the
instructions).
3. You see it downloading/buffering the video. Then, as it has
buffered
exactly 20 minutes worth, it jumps to the end.
4. If you now play it, you get 20 minutes of the 30 minute video and
then
the message about replaying or going to another one.
OR, IS IT
1. as above, except it could be a 5 minute video.
2. as above
3. You see it buffering. You time with a stop watch the movement of
the
buffer and after 20 minutes of downloading (even if it were only 1
minute of
video), it stops and never advances.
4. You can now play, but the video ends where buffering stopped and
then
the messages pop up.
It is the latter scenario, except for #2. I have not hit the "pause"
button to stop the video from playing as it is being downloaded. Their
instructions only suggest doing that in case you do not wish to see the
video start and stop repeatedly. I believe that step is irrelevant to
this issue. That belief is based upon the following fact. I have an
application that allows me to download FLV videos from Youtube and
other sites that use Flash videos and retain them on my hard drive .
The same thing happens when I use that application. After about twenty
minutes of downloading, the application informs me that the download is
complete even though I know it cannot possibly be. I then save the FLV
file, and upon viewing it, I can clearly see that the video has
terminated at just about exactly the same point that it ended when I
tried to view it online, and it similarly contains the 'ending' screen
just as occurs online.
I shall try to use step #2, but I do not think that will have any
effect. I'll let you know.
Steve
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