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Streaming or download, YouTube or other sites - questions and answers about video on the internet.
VLC is a popular media player known for its ability to play just about any format. I'll go over a few of its features.
How can I view online video without the starts and stops?
Online video is becoming more and more popular, but it often assumes you have a fast connection. If you don't, video playback can be affected.
How do I play this video file?
Video formats are a confusing mess. Fortunately there are a couple of ways that you can often get downloaded videos to play without too much fuss.
How do I prevent auto-download or auto-start video?
Video embedded on web pages will sometimes begin to download, or even begin to play, before you hit play. We'll look at one inelegant solution.
Watching online video is popular but if your ISP imposes a data transfer limit there are some important differences between streaming and downloading.