Mega Video time limit bypass, How to. Options

[Ron.]

These are not guarenteed to work for everyone (it depends on your ISP etc).

Firstly clear your browsers cookies, next block all cookies coming from megavideo.com:

Go to: Tools > Options (in firefox)

Then click "Exceptions" and block "megavideo.com" & "www.megavideo.com" (without quotes)


Method 1
All you do is start the video playing then pause it and let it buffer all the way to the end. Then press standby on your modem (or unplug it if you don't have a standby button) and watch the movie off/line, then hit play.

(Instead of turning off/unplugging your modem, you can also try clicking File > Work Offline in your browser. But remember to change it back when you want to load another video.)

The obvious drawback is that you are offline but, you can do this all-day if you want to have a marathon Megavideo session without that annoying video limit.


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Method 2
Unplug your modem from its power supply. The mailing address you have leased from your carrier will expire, as it will see that you are no longer online, and you therefore do not need an IP Address. Your IP Address currently being used will return to the pool of IPs available to use to your IP.
Clear your cookies. This takes care of the client side monitoring being done on your machine.
Wait 60 Seconds, then plug your modem back in. During the reinitialization of your modem, it will query your IP carrier for another IP Address from the pool of available ones, giving you a new IP Address.
Reconnect to Megavideo by closing your browser and accessing the material again. Your cookies will be cleared, and Megavideo will have no record of your new IP Address on their server log. Enjoy another hour of uninterrupted content.

(Method 2 won't work if you have a static IP)




Hopefully one or the other of these methods worked for some people until Mega Video realises their stupididty and removes the limitations.

Post a reply in this thread if either method worked for you

[peaceLover]

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You are simply genius. Thanks bro

[Nafen]

deleting the cookies doesnt work for me and my IP is static

[Duffman]

deleting the cookies doesnt work for me and my IP is static

Please read the post properly, method 1 doesnt require a dynamic IP.

[Nafen]

I was referring to Method 2.

Which means I have to load all of the videos beforehand :\

Sorry for the double post but the work offline method won't work either :S

[Duffman]

These are not guarenteed to work for everyone (it depends on your ISP etc).

Read the post properly.

[h2os]

Awesome! Is there anything different about this if you have a mac?

[Jester]

Add on: You can also try using something like Hotspot Shield to try and get some additional playtime.

[suril89]

I will test it out...hopefully I will find some success...

[pepelepeuu]

Neither of these worked. Does anyone else know a work-around for this MegaVideo GARBAGE?

Maybe if TV Shack could add another link to each of the videos that was not MegaVideo and we all started using those then megavideo can just go out of business instead of trying to charge us for what they got for free.

[MURRAY122]

If there is not another link for a video it is up to you to find the video yourself or ask a link hunter to try find it for you.

Its up to TvShack members to get the links not TvShack Staff as they have to run the site.

[Heidymus]

There are thousands upon thousands of videos on TV Shack. It would be impossible for us to go through all of them and find an alternate link. Some videos are just not on other hosts.

[suril89]

If the problem with megavideo is persistent enough, people will start uploading their shows to other sites...

[Jester]

Neither of these worked. Does anyone else know a work-around for this MegaVideo GARBAGE?

Maybe if TV Shack could add another link to each of the videos that was not MegaVideo and we all started using those then megavideo can just go out of business instead of trying to charge us for what they got for free.

Change your IP somehow, and clear cookies. Thats guarenteed to work until you hit the limit again.

[Blue]

Thanks for this, with my... "luck"... this wont help me at all, but i for one do appreciate the effort, thanks...

[Heidymus]

Try this also:

• Reload the page. A lot of the time, it will allow you to continue watching without having to wait. Something else that may be a result from this is that it will greatly decrease the amount of wait time.
• Watch the videos offline. This final one has not been tested but you can try it if you'd like by doing the following:
  Step 1: When you click play on a Megavideo video, click pause and allow the video to buffer all the way to 100%.
  Step 2: Once the video is done buffering, go to your menu bar on your browser, and click on File -> Work Offline.
  Step 3: Watch video.
  Step 4: Unclick the "work offline" button.

[Zurk]

Does it track your viewing time by browser cookies, flash cookies, or ip?

[Ashleydenee]

You could just always change your IP.

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.

[ballplyr86]

You could just always change your IP.

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.

I did this and it did nothing, and I tried a couple of times. Also I tried all the previous ideas that the top of the forum and they didnt work either.

[Heidymus]

Renewing will not work if you have a static IP.

You can tell if you have a static IP address by typing in IPCONFIG by itself and making sure it’s something other than 169.254.

Here's the solution if you have Windows: http://helpdeskgeek.com/networking/how-to-...ess-in-windows/