Downloading Help

ayacuore · Post by **ayacuore** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:14 am

I'm new here and I just got off my two week probation period. I tried to download some videos, but something's wrong. It only took one second and one kb, and when I tested it, an error came up saying that the file was either corrupted or I didn't have the right software. I tried it on both Windows Media Player and Real Player, and with different videos. Is there something that I need to get in order to download the videos correctly? Is there something wrong with my media players?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:46 pm

Make sure you just click on the link, dont right click and save as.

ayacuore · Post by **ayacuore** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:59 pm

Make sure you just click on the link, dont right click and save as.

I haven't been right clicking. I even decided to do a test to see what would happen if I opened it from the web. Something came up saying that I needed the software that created the file in order to view the file.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:28 pm

hmmmm i remember haveing this problem the thing is i dont remember what i did to fix it. try useing oprea to download the vids. its a browser/download manager. maybe theres something wrong with IE. if i think of anything else ill get back to u.

ayacuore · Post by **ayacuore** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:20 pm

OK, I got Opera. It looks like it's going to download, but my requests get queued and media player gets this "unknown error". Does anyone know what caused this?

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:23 pm

i dont know what the hell is going on sorry.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:36 pm

It sounds like you are letting opera open the video directly instead of saving it to your hard drive, then it sounds like you don't have the codec required to play the video. Make sure to save the video to your hard drive and then make sure you have divx installed.