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How to get around Megavideos time limit

How to get around Megavideos time limit There are many ways to get around Megavideos time limit without buying a premium account. We have gathered some tips for you on this page. Please leave us a comment if you know of any other methods. Now read and enjoy your videos! WATCH OFFLINE Click play and pause the video as soon as it starts loading. Let it load to 100%. When the video is done buffering, go to the menu bar on your browser and click "File" -> "Work offline". Watch the video while you are offline. Megavideo only counts the time you are actually watching the video online, not buffering it. So watching the video offline does not use any minutes of the time limit. You can also load multiple videos and watch them when you want, because they are "downloaded" to your cache. If you close the browser, or clear your cache, however, you will most likely lose the video(s). When you are finished watching the video, unclick the "work offline" button so you are connected to internet again. Now you can start loading the next video(s), and repeat the process as many times as you want. DELETE COOKIES If you use Firefox you can just delete your cookies when the time limit comes. First close Megavideo. In Firefox click on Tools, then Options (or Edit | Preferences on Linux). Select Privacy. In the Cookies panel, click on Show Cookies. To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the Remove Cookie button. To remove all cookies click on the Remove All Cookies button. Go back to Megavideo and continue where you left. DOWNLOAD VIDEO WITH FIREFOX' DOWNLOAD HELPER Install the plugin "Download Helper" in Firefox if you don't already have it, and open the Megavideo video with your Firefox browser. As soon as the video starts loading you will see a little icon right next to the address bar. Click the icon and you will get a dropdown-menu with the name of the videofile. Click on the file and save it to your computer. Now you can continue surfing or download more videos. Download helper can be used on most sites with videos. When the file is finished downloading you can watch it in a media player that supports .flv-files. We recommend using the free VLC player. DOWNLOAD VIDEO WITH REALPLAYER 11 Nelieru gave the following tip: "Download realplayer 11, and use the in-built webvideo download function. Every time you'll come across a video on the web, a "Download this video" button will appear. Left click, and Realplayer will start downloading it. You can then select it in "My library", and watch it offline. If it doesnt appear in your library, you can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\"Your username"\Application Data\Real\Realplayer Downloads\"Your video"\ When you have clicked the "download now" button, just close the window and do something else, or Megavideo will count the time you stayed on the vid' without watching it as a "watching time"" Thanks to Nelieru for that tip! DOWNLOAD VIDEO WITH INTERNET EXPLORER If you are using Internet Explorer start loading the video and then pause it. When the video is finished loading, open the temporary folder of your PC and locate the file. It should have the .flv extension. Open the video in a media player that supports .flv-files, like f.ex. VLC. HIDING YOUR IP WITH HOTSPOT SHIELD Megavideo is looking at your IP address to determine how long you have been watching the videos. By using a program that hides your IP you can easily get a new IP address as soon as the time limit message appears. There are some different programs that does this. The most popular and the only one we have tested is Hotspot Shield. Install the program and click "connect". It will now assign you a new IP address. Whenever you want you can click "disconnect" to surf internet without using Hotspot Shield. The program displays some ads, and surfing might be a bit slower while you are using Hotspot Shield then without it. But at least you can watch as many Megavideo minutes as you want. If you only use Hotspot Shield while you are watching videos, or need to hide/change your IP, then it should not be any problem. By using Hotspot Shield you can also access content that are only available to people from certain countries, like f.ex. certain videos on sites like Hulu, Pandora, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MTV, The CW and similar. RENEWING YOUR IP WITH THE ROUTER If you have dynamic IP you can turn off your router for 30 seconds and then turn it back on. Your IP should be renewed now and your time limit reset. Restart the router again when you get a new error message from Megavideo. RENEWING YOUR IP WITH IPCONFIG If you have dynamic IP but no router, you could try the following: Press the Windows start button and click run, or type Windows+R. In the "run window" type either CMD or Command and a black rectangular box should pop up. Type "ipconfig /release" and hit enter. You will now be disconnected from internet. Type "ipconfig /renew" to connect to internet again and renew your ip address. Exit the application and you will now have reset the Megavideo time limit. Repeat the process as soon as you get a new message from Megavideo that you have exceeded the time limit. OTHER SITES AND PROGRAMS There is a program called UltraSurf that works like a proxy and hides your cookies. Another program called aTube Catcher lets you download the videos without worrying about the timelimit. Plus two tips from our users. Laurel suggests MaxEdRoom's MegaVideo Player and Girglihabbon recommends MegaAllDay. We haven't tried these sites, so please give us some feedback if you have. And if you know any other sites or methods, please drop us a line in the comments. GO PREMIUM If you watch a lot of videos on Megavideo you might go tired of the workarounds in the long run. The best is of course a premium account - no more time limits and no more ads. And there is a way you can get it for free. Megavideo have a reward program that gives you points for views on videos you upload. These points can then be exchanged in to a premium account. You need a lot of video views though, so you might as well just start uploading right away. When uploading videos to Megavideo we recommend using their Megamanager. It goes a lot faster to upload videos through the Megamanager than from the website. IN THE END... Try out some different methods and see which ones are best for you. Please leave us a comment if you have any other tips or want to share your experience on these methods. Good luck and enjoy the videos! DOWNLOAD: » Search for files to download - via Rapidshare, Hotfile, Megaupload etc. (free) » Search for files to download - via P2P network (premium) ALT. VIDEO ON DEMAND & STREAMING LINKS: Cant find what you are looking for? Try searching: » Amazon » Google » Truveo Comments Only registered users can write comments! kelvin  - MegaVideo Time Limit Via FireFox   |2009-12-02 10:18:04 This is for firefox users i have found an addon that lets you watch megavideo's videos without a time limit all you have to do is download this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon /11037 This when youve downloaded this addon and continue to watch megavideo a small box will appear saying (illimitux detects a megavideo link) Simply click Remove limitation and the video you are looking to see will open in another player Limit free Laurel   |2009-10-14 05:06:19 You could also try this link: http://www.maxedroom.com/videos/MaxMegaVide o.html Allthough I find it a lot easier to just renew my IP. Once you get used to it, it goes automatic. Girglihabbon   |2009-10-04 21:21:39 hmm... i think you will find it much easier to just use http://megavideo.videolister.org/ kelvin  - Megavideos Time Limit   |2009-09-08 03:41:26 On my system (Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit), the way to do this is: 1) Go to Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt 2) Type ipconfig /renew 3) Refresh window 4) Find where your video left off. This resets my IP, and allows me to continue watching regardless of the ridiculous money-scamming limit. Nelieru   |2009-04-12 08:02:01 sorry for the intensive spamming u___U xDD forgot to mention : when you have clicked the "download now" button, just close the window and do something else, or megavideo will count the time you stayed on the vid' without watching it as a "watching time" (xDD) might be somewhat obvious though... Nelieru   |2009-04-12 07:59:01 Here's the end of my comment, since it was too long, this part was automatically cut out ^^" oh and one last thing ^^ Depending on your connection, it can only download parts of the vid', well then, the only thing to do in that case is to re-download the video ^^"" But it generally downloads the whole vid' xDD There's something I also noticed... It's that when you download too many videos from megavideo, even if you havent watched 1 second of them online, it still tells you "You have watched 72 minutes of video today, please come back in blah blah blah"... .... well hopefully you'll have downloaded enough eps and you'll be able to wait until the time limit's over ^^" There, i think i mentioned everything.... I hope =P Dunno if that will be useful, at least it was for me ^^ The firefox download helper was a bit of a pain, since it downloaded the video at a rate of 60-80kbps... ... Nelieru   |2009-04-12 07:56:01 hey there i'm new here =P But after trying all those methods, and seeing that none really worked (at least for me) i found out another way of getting the vids DD It worked for all seasons and eps of House MD, until maybe S5E19, i dunno i haven't tried it out after s5E18... just download realplayer 11, and use the in-built webvideo download function. Every time you'll come across a video on the web, a "Download this video" button will appear. Left click, and Realplayer will start downloading it. You can then select it in "My library", and watch it offline. If it doesnt appear in your library, you can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\"Your username"\Application Data\Real\Realplayer Downloads\"Your video"\ oh and one last thing ^^ Depending on your connection, it can only download parts of the vid', well then, the only thing to do in that ... burdaneta  - Not so good...   |2009-04-11 08:50:44 Downloading using Firefox's Helper hasnt worked...I am still getting the 75 minute warning or movies are cut short. ebby  - Nothing works   |2009-03-28 21:53:04 I tried the various methods - I can't re-set my modem as it's a work connection and modem is located in a locked office) I tried to work offline but still got the message. Also tried letting it buffer to 100% without watching it at all but got same message when tried to buffer the next one. peep   |2009-03-11 05:22:52 there should be a green play button in the middle of the ad. click it and the video will start playing. Hayley  - Megavideo ads   |2009-03-11 05:13:05 I've been on megavideo a few times and every time an advert for online poker is in the space where the video should be and I don't know how to get around it. Can anyone help? Anonymous   |2009-03-01 04:03:03 Its working fine for me. Just be sure that the whole video is loaded. If you loose the internet connection you have to start loading again. And stay offline the whole time you watch the video, otherwise it will count the time you are watching and give you the limit. If you already have the limit activated you have to wait before you start loading the video. Anonymous   |2009-02-28 21:53:13 ok. i tried the watch megavideo. let it load. go offline. hit play. i still get the 54 minute wait. after a while. after the first 72 mins. Anonymous  - downloading   |2009-02-28 00:57:09 i dont know about you guys. but downloading using firefox download didnt quite work for me. i only got 16mins of the video. i've tried some other downloader and still came up with the same problem. only able to download 16mins of it. any idea why? Anonymous   |2009-02-27 21:14:32 I don't know if I did something wrong or not, but watching it offline didn't work for me... Tess   |2009-02-17 08:51:23 Thanks!!! You just saved my life...   "

 

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