Version?Us /Euro

[Plastic Flute]

Hi I posted a video(short) for my pals in Joshtopia.One pal cannot access it.I'm from the US and she is from Germany. (Does that make a diff ?)The link comes up, but it wont play. She asks if it can be uploaded in a different version? What does version mean? I love to help her out...

[Samson The Cat]

Sometimes content is only available to selected ISPs. This often concerns upload services.

However the problem could also be that your pal doesn't have the correct drivers installed. Like if your video is in the quicktime format and your pal doesn't have the player installed, resp. not the newest drivers (I name this example, since the update-function of QT doesn't always work the way it's supposed).´

So with Version, she probably means the format - QT (mov), MPEG (mpg), Windows Media (WMF) or various DivX-versions (usually avi).

Find out if it's a driver problem or if the file cannot be accessed. Make her download the file (you said the link appears - you know the procedure: right-click + save target as). If this works, it's a driver problem. If she can't find where to download the needed drivers, try to convert your video in a different format (you made the vid, right?)

[open32]

Its doubtful that its the ISP or the fact that the person is in Germany. There is no Us /Euro versions for video formats.I dont know how you upload things there, like with Rapidshare or things like that?

1: If the person cant download it by "right-click + save target as", it might be blocked in there web browser or a popup blocker.

2: If your using a host: like rapidshare, yousendit, or megaupload, some people can not use a specific one, try uploading it to another.

3: If they downloaded the video and it wont play, the problem is a codex. The player from www.divx.com usualy plays most vids, unless its a .MOV which needs quicktime. It is much easier for them to download one of these programs then it is for you to convert the video to one of the types sampson listed above.

[Samson The Cat]

Originally Posted by open32

Its doubtful that its the ISP or the fact that the person is in Germany.

Well I remember in the old days of the forum, we there had been trouble with some upload services such as Tripod, Geocities or others. While some people saw the pictures, others were presented with an red x. This had nothing to do with the policy of some hosts to prevent hot-linking.