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Hi Erica, Here is a followup to my last reply; dealing, more, with the specific questions you raised: On Sun, 20 May 2012, ebl7@chebucto.ns.ca wrote: When a YouTube video is over, the screen is filled up with squares of other videos to watch and most times the one you just watched isn't visible so when you press play it starts to download from the beginning all over again. This is because the video in question is already loaded in YouTube's video player. To watch it again, look for a small circular arrow in the upper or lower left of the squares and you will see the arrow with the word 'replay' by it. YouTube, sometimes, offers a selection of 9 other videos it thinks that you might be interested in, dependent on what you just watched. The 10th video, the one you just watched, is available by clicking the replay arrow as noted above. However, please note that, although you just watched the video, it didn't download to your computer, it merely flashed the frames through your dial-up connection to your browser and the file still resides on YouTube, which means, if you want to see it again, you're going to have to wait until it can be flashed down through your dial-up connection and to your browser again. This is how YouTube works; even a high speed doesn't download the actual file, it is flashed down thoguh your high internet connection and to your browser. Each time you play the video, you're restarting that sequence and, through a high speed connection, you don't notice the wait time that you would with dial-up. However, if you download it with Video Downloader, you're actually making a copy of the video for yourself on your computer. Then your fast computer with its ram power can play the video quickly and as many times as you wish. I have watched a few other videos. They lurch along as I have described above but when they get to the end, I press play and they play. It seems to only work if the video if less than 3 minutes long. If the video in question isn't linked to other similar videos (as noted above), it will simply end and leave a large replay arrow in a box in the center of the screen for you to press again, if you want to rewatch that particular video. It seems YouTube is linking more and more videos so this feature may soon disappear, which means you'll have to use the small replay arrow to rewatch any videos. It is possible (and keep in mind that I have 1.25 GB of RAM) that you can't watch any video that's more than a few minutes long with dial-up? You can watch any video you want, even full movies, if you have the patience to wait for it to download. Use the workarounds I listed in the previous email to assist you in making your download experience a little less stressful as the modern internet, with their streaming video and huge file sizes, makes it pretty tough on dial-up. Your 1.25gb of ram would only come into play once the video is completely on your computer. The ram doesn't play a part in dial-up file transfer. It would, with high speed, as your browser and other programs would utilize the extra ram. Also, I frequently get some error message when I attempt to download a video such as "error while loading" or "currently unavailable". I'm suspicious that is more to do with my dial-up than something wrong on the other end. Surely, 99% of videos on the Internet can't all be unavailable. As I mentioned in the previous email, this is YouTube simply saying 'Houston, we have a problem'. YouTube is an extremely busy service and sometimes their servers just get completely backlogged, which means no one, especially dial-up, is getting anywhere fast. Just try later and things are usually back to normal. Tony @ CCN Help
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