Fast-Forward Downloaded YouTube’s FLV file in VLC Media Player

September 4, 2008 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

You’ve been using VLC Player or also known as VideoLan player for quite some time now, it’s the best player around town with the ability to execute almost every video files, the only problem is, you can’t rewind or fast-forward FLV files you downloaded from the internet, such as FLV files from YouTube.

Problem: Every single time I try and fast forward / rewind / jump ahead to a specific time (using that control and entering the time), or jump ahead by moving the position dot in the play bar ahead — the player window immediately closes.

So, what’s the problem?

The truth is, .FLV format is encoded in flash format, and they are not seekable in most FLV player, but you can fast forward videos in YouTube, why not in your own video player installed in your desktop? A good question indeed, the answer is pretty long and it has to do with the codec and the way FLV player reads the file.

According to rumors, the up and coming version 9 of VideoLan Player has this issue corrected. No words yet on the release date, Download VLC media player Win32 nightly builds, it has some bugs but if you desperately need to fast forward flv videos, do give it a try.

Fast-Forward Downloaded YouTube's FLV in VLV Media Player

Alternatively, FlvPlayer4Free is another FLV player on the block, as good as VLC media player. Yes, fast forward FLV files using FlvPlayer4Free is available.

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Watch Online the Beijing Olympic 2008 Opening Ceremony for Free

August 3, 2008 · Filed Under Sports · 16 Comments 

Watch Beijing Olympic 2008 Opening Ceremony Online Free

Is it possible to watch the Beijing Olympic 2008 online? The answer is Yes and No, depending on the location you are streaming from. TVTonic is partnering with NBC Olympics to bring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to Windows Media Center. Yes, it is possible to watch online (am not too sure if it is stream live from Beijing) and the only catch is it’s only available for US user only.

  • Download & watch full length Olympic events
  • watch while “on the go” and off-line
  • hours of video covering over 20 Olympic sports
  • subscribe to your favorite events for automatic delivery to your PC

NBC is further expanding its coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with an Internet-delivered catch-up TV service powered by TVTonic on Windows Media Center on PCs running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate! With NBC Olympics On The Go and Windows Media Center, you will be able to create a customized channel lineup of your favorite events for automatic download to your PC. Download NBC coverage of the Games overnight, and take them with you to watch online or offline in up to HD quality.

My only concern is, why only stream it to US citizens? and to limit the streaming to Vista users is a no brainer, and why YouTube did not take any concrete steps to stream the games from Beijing?

My advise is, try other alternative websites such as Ustream.tv or MLB.tv, fear not, P2P technology will prevails. Read more about the Proposal for Beijing Olympic 2008 Stadium by various architects and the technical difficulties faced with the construction of the Beijing Olympic 2008 Stadium also known as the ‘Bird Nest’.

Update
YouTube has just announce the availability of video from the olympic games this summer, the only catch is it is only made available for certain countries, do check it out - YouTube Beijing Olympic 2008.

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How to piss me off with online video sharing websites

May 15, 2008 · Filed Under Life Log · Comment 

azureus online video streaming

The idea of sharing an internet connection with strangers can be really annoying, not that I have a choice, but was forced to because the landlord says so, I do have the option of acquiring my own telephone line but it is going to cost me a bomb.

Long story short, the situation was made worst when I am forced to share the internet connection with 7 people in the house; the best part is the broadband connection quota for every month capped at 40GB. That is like 170MB for each person per day, which is hardly enough. The 40GB cap per month is the ceiling quota from the company.

Since the broadband internet connection is limited to 40GB per month, why can’t these users be more considerate? Is it a must to watch funny videos online, multimedia sites such as YouTube really annoys me, especially video streaming sites that uses torrent technology.

I found a few ways to block Azureus, but could not find a solution towards the much more popular p2p video streaming software known as ppstream.com, its a Chinese video streaming website that utilize p2p technology and it is really killing the bandwidth. As much as I would like to scream ‘Go back to China’, but that is somewhat rude. (No racism here, I’m Chinese but not from China)

Buying a new VPN modem is out of the question, it is just way too expensive and why should I be the one paying for the hardware? P2P technology, it is a love hate relationship. God help me.

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How to Access YouTube If It Is Blocked or Filtered

May 9, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 1 Comment 

After toying around with my router for a few weeks, I’ve discovered various ways of accessing youtube or any other websites using different techniques such as IP address and proxy surfing. These are simple techniques that do not require the help of a computer nerd.

The IP Address technique - little knowledge is needed, all you need to do is key in the IP address of youtube server, and you’re in, this technique works if the network administrator doesn’t block the ip address of the server. Usually the network administrator filters website based on the URL address and not the IP address.

How to Access YouTube If It Is Blocked or Filtered

The other technique is proxy surfing - embedproxies.com is the only proxy site that doesn’t disable javascript, thus allowing you to watch videos from youtube, for websites that doesn’t utilize javascript such as youtube, any other proxy sites are good enough.

Please use these methods at your own risk, be advised that, most network administrator monitor the web traffic and your chances of getting caught for bypassing their filters are literally quite high.

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US Army Block MySpace and YouTube

May 14, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

US Army Block MySpace and YouTube

It appears thats the US Army is blocking access to site like YouTube and MySpace, reason being that it hogs bandwidth and it is a threat to the army security if any important data leaks, which is yet to be seen or hear of.

I find this ironic, considering the fact that US is the champion of freedom of speech, on top of that military personal uses these site to keep in touch with their friends and relatives, cutting off them is like cutting off their oxygen, sure there is always email, but email don’t provide the same service.

Army Times has this to say:

“This is as much an information war as it is bombs and bullets,” he said. “And they are muzzling their best voices.”

MySpace and YouTube are not the only victims, other sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, and FileCabi, the social networking sites BlackPlanet and Hi5, music sites Pandora, MTV, and 1.fm, and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.

What happen to sites like Friendster or Flickr?

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YouTube Sued Again

May 5, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

YouTube faces another 'Copyright infringement' lawsuit

YouTube faces another ‘Copyright infringement’ lawsuit, this time it is the England’s top soccer league and an independent U.S. music publisher. No amount of compensation was claimed but this won’t be the end, Google made a big mistake by purchasing YouTube together with all those illegal content, but according to Google general counsel Kent Walker said, “These suits simply misunderstand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which balances the rights of copyright holders against the need to protect internet communications and content.

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Viacom to sue Google and YouTube for USD1Billion

March 13, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Viacom to sue Google and YouTube for USD1BillionThe owner of MTV Networks decided to sue Google and YouTube for copyright violation, this would be an interesting court case and the out come would definitely change the way people share videos online. I still couldn’t figure it out why would Google buy YouTube when they know this sort of things would come, let YouTbe battle the court case and then bail them out like what happen to napster, provided the price is right.

Viacom’s claim says almost 160,000 unauthorized snippets of Viacom shows have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube. Viacom also owns Paramount Pictures movie studios and the Nickelodeon cable network.

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Guy Commits Crime, Posts On YouTube

October 27, 2006 · Filed Under Hollywood, Movies and Gossips · 2 Comments 

Most petty crimes are done by dumb people and this is a case of an 18-year old teenager from Wales. What he did what swipes pair of glasses off a charity worker and then post the video on YouTube. Which eventually lead to his arrest by authorities.

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