cricketm- It may depend on the version you have installed, but it will be something like this: For Quicktime: Start Quicktime; click on Edit / Preferences / QT Preferences / Advanced. There should be a checkbox relating to Show Tray Icon. I believe that, if it's checked, the program begins at Startup; if it's not checked, it doesn't. For RealPlayer: Follow the directions in the link below...which are generally good for stopping other things too. Don't uncheck things if you don't know what they are, but obvious things like iTunes, or Adobe Acrobat can be unchecked. This is also another way of stopping QuickTime from running at start up if my directions above don't work for you. When you prevent things like RealPlayer from starting up, you do no harm. If you need them, you can always start them like any program, or sometimes clicking on a video will cause the program to start up. All you are sacrificing is having to wait a couple of seconds longer for something to start playing. But by not letting it run every time you boot up, you are freeing precious resources. Sometimes I don't use any video player for days, so I don't want it sitting there occupying my RAM on the off-chance that I'll be using it. Here is a link that might be useful: Prevent RealPlayer Running at Startup

AVI is an audio/video file format that stands for Audio Video Interleaved, which is the Microsoft Video for Windows standard. Because it is a standard and popular (though very big) format, it can be opened in and played by any multimedia software able to play video and any video editing software. RIFF stands for Resource Interchange File Format. It's not a format but the structure that defines the format (AVI). If there is error or corruption in the structure, the AVI file is not recognized. Provided you have Microsoft Media Player, Quicktime, or Real Player installed on your computer, you should be able to just double click on that AVI file and your default player will run it. If nothing happens, there are likely some errors in the structure. I only suggest doing that to make sure the program you are trying to open it with is not in error of not recognizing that file. I have had that happen before. If there is corruption, it could have happened during download and you simply need to download it again. If you are able to play it in one of the Windows multimedia players, you may need to try a different program. BTW, Windows has a free video editing program calld Windows Movie Maker (it's probably already on your computer) and there are other free ones you can download from the internet. I'm afraid I am not familiar with VirtualDub. Once you are working with a program to play all your files, they can be dragged and dropped onto the timeline one after the other, then viewed and saved as one file whatever the saving/rendering process is for that program. I mostly use Studio these days, which offers a "Make Movie" button. You just have to become familiar with the machinations of your application. As I mentioned before, AVI is a very large format. Once you edit to make them all one movie, you have to be sure there is enough hard drive space and memory. A two-hour AVI file can be anywhere between 40 and 60 gigabytes. I don't know what operating system you're running but can tell you Windows 98 cannot handle it no matter how much hard drive space or how much memory you have, especially since it cannot handle more than 500m of memory. The fact is, Windows 98 is simply unable to supply the needed resources. When I upgraded to Windows XP, it was exactly for that reason. Even with XP you need at least a gig of memory to prevent dropping frames. Additionally, it will take many hours for it to render (another word for save that involves intensive formatting). This is especially so if you want to get fancy and include the special effects and transitions that are available in the program. I let mine render overnight and sometimes it still is not done when I rise the next morning. I suggest you save it as an MPEG instead of AVI. It will not be as huge a file and will not take as long to render, but a two-hour file will still take a long time. MPEG/MPEG2 are also a popular and standard file formats. Clear as mud? Did I help...

do you mean a regular digital camera that uses a memory card to hold the pics and videos? If so then you can simply remove the memory card from camera and insert it into a memory card reader which you plug into your usb port, if there is not one built into your pc already, then simply choose to copy it to the pc from the card, you don't have to have a program to move pics or vids from the memory card to the pc. Most newer computers have a built in memory card reader, if yours does not you can get one for just a few dollars, I have bought them at big lots for $6 but any store with an electronics dept will have them. That is the easiest way to do it and you don't have to add any extra programs to your pc.

the kick youtube one seems to work I just tried it. Instead of putting abc you put kick in the url right before youtube. Then when it opens at the kick page at the bottom of the video you click on Kick, it then has a bar at the top with the various types of download file options choose the one you want like mp4 then on the right click on the green go, then right click on the download button and choose save link as. If for some reason you are only getting the embed link then on the youtube site at the top left corner of your video where you see the name of the video poster click that and go to their page and click on share and it will give you a url you can use. You should also be able to get a good clean url if you click on the share button directly below the video itself on the regular youtube page.