DVD's come in at least 2 styles. A regular store bought one has files on it that look like xxxxx.vob plus other files. other types made by friends won't be like that and will be 'more playable' using VLC player which I believe everyone would recommend. I personally don't play DVD's and thus can't help you much however there's going to be a software requirement for the DVD player to need for it to decipher how to manage the *.vob files on the DVD. Try opening Windows media player by itself and then open the CD / DVD by typing E: or D: in the Run window. Once the DVD is 'open' drag it to the WIndows media player. Or an alternate way is to open Windows player and then once knowing the E: or D: name of the DVD then 'open' Windows media player for the DVD and see if it will play it. During all of this if you can verify what kind of files, ie *.vob or other.. ie *.mp4, or *.avi files, this will help us to help you to play it. I suspect that you have a 'real' DVD from Blockbuster and are trying to play it. So the open Windows media player first, then try to open the D: or E: of the DVD should take you the furthest in your hopes to play it. Computers were not supposed to cause us more work. Be careful to avoid joy and happiness tied to computers. They're made for work and GD if they aaren't going to be used for that you're certainly going to H$LL. LOL j/k -- except I do think we've split off entertainment from work and computers don't care they cause us hurt and frustration in our quest for 'fun'. Andre

From the Apache web site:- What is the Apache HTTP Server Project? The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. This file is intended to briefly describe the history of the Apache HTTP Server and recognize the many contributors. End quote. php is a web page making coding akin to html and css. If your friend has no knowledge of this then perhaps she/he bought the computer second hand and the original owner was into creating web pages.

Hi JustMe! I have been wracking my brains and searching for answers. Decided finally to try to convert the mp4 to mp3. And thought while I'm at it I will re-download a saved video from June of this year (done with the earlier version of youtubedownload of course). Maybe uninstalling Adobe removed a needed component??? While trying to do the conversion I clicked on the new download file to get it into the conversion (?) and it opened in VCL, and Played the Audio! I can go to bed now. Oops, so I check the file extension on the June video file versus the same video re-downloaded tonight --- .flv on the June one and now it's downloading as a .mp4 --- I assume utube has done this to all their content. Maybe my computer just needed the reboot to kick things in gear :-) Thanks so much for your backup. To bed. irisgal

It's not on a site. The video was taken with the computerized microscope named Digital Blue. (It's a "toy" scope for kids but big kids like to play, too.) The files played on the original computer when I used the Digital Blue software. I exported the files from the Digital Blue folder then, once exported, copied to my thunb drive so that I could transfer to my computer. As I said, they won't play on my computers (both Vista) even though they both play avi files from other sources. I also tried to convert to another format via zamzar but received error message unable to convert. (Sorry, I don't recall precise wording. Could try again if it's important.)