Thread: How to get around the Megavideos limit

I already knew about the watch offline method, but did a little research and found some more methods


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.




DOWNLOAD VIDEO WITH FIREFOX’ DOWNLOAD HELPER
If you’re not already using Firefox, you’re about to get a very good excuse to switch. 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 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.

SSH Tunneling (Thanks to nik)
I would like to add one more, which is ssh tunneling. It works like the HotSpot Shield but it needs one or two extra steps. In ssh tunneling, your browsers traffic is sent to another computer over SSH where it then goes to the actual website (in our case MegaVideo). So, if you use SSH tunneling from home and send your traffic to your work computer then megavideo will see another IP address thus lifting the time limit and enabling you to keep on watching videos.

Windows

So on Windows, we can use Putty to establish that tunnel by creating a new connection to our "work computer" and also requesting a dynamic tunnel. Just create a new connection (ho***ame and port should be the ho***ame of your SSH listening computer and the appropriate port):
Click this bar to view the full image.


and then from the left hand pane choose Connection->SSH->Tunnels.

There on the bottom of the page add a source port (in our example 7070, choose the "Dynamic" radio button and then click Add). Your putty application should now look like this:

Click this bar to view the full image.

Now the configurations are ready so you can "Open" this new connection. Once you login successfully to your remote computer, everything that your local computer sends to local port 7070 will be forwarded to the remote computer. Now, the only thing left is to configure Firefox (or whatever browser) to forward its traffic through that port:

On the Firefox window click Tools->Options->Network->Settings and fill in the information according to the figure below:

Click this bar to view the full image.

Now you should be set and done. To try it out you can surf over to http://www.whatismyip.com before and after setting up the tunnel to check that your IP has changed. Now you can use this IP to see another ~60 minutes of MegaVideo. Once you burn that up (and if you still want to see more) just disable the tunneling from Firefox and use your original IP address, which will now be usable again.

Linux

On Linux you can create an SSH tunnel simply by typing:
Code:
ssh -D7070 10.3.4.55 -l "your username"
Once this is done configure your browser exactly as in the Windows way.


MegaStreaming bypass (Thanks to panamangix)
Use megastreaming to bypass the Megavideos liimit. MegaStreaming




Think something should be changed or added, post below

Thanks for reading and enjoy
Sam


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Hey Sam91,

Thanks for the info. To be honest, I only appreciate the HotSpot solution because the video is still streaming. In all the other ways, one has to download the video and then see it which means that the videos are no longer streaming...

I would like to add one more, which is ssh tunneling. It works like the HotSpot Shield but it needs one or two extra steps. In ssh tunneling, your browsers traffic is sent to another computer over SSH where it then goes to the actual website (in our case MegaVideo). So, if you use SSH tunneling from home and send your traffic to your work computer then megavideo will see another IP address thus lifting the time limit and enabling you to keep on watching videos.

Windows

So on Windows, we can use Putty to establish that tunnel by creating a new connection to our "work computer" and also requesting a dynamic tunnel. Just create a new connection (ho***ame and port should be the ho***ame of your SSH listening computer and the appropriate port):



and then from the left hand pane choose Connection->SSH->Tunnels.

There on the bottom of the page add a source port (in our example 7070, choose the "Dynamic" radio button and then click Add). Your putty application should now look like this:



Now the configurations are ready so you can "Open" this new connection. Once you login successfully to your remote computer, everything that your local computer sends to local port 7070 will be forwarded to the remote computer. Now, the only thing left is to configure Firefox (or whatever browser) to forward its traffic through that port:

On the Firefox window click Tools->Options->Network->Settings and fill in the information according to the figure below:



Now you should be set and done. To try it out you can surf over to http://www.whatismyip.com before and after setting up the tunnel to check that your IP has changed. Now you can use this IP to see another ~60 minutes of MegaVideo. Once you burn that up (and if you still want to see more) just disable the tunneling from Firefox and use your original IP address, which will now be usable again.

Linux

On Linux you can create an SSH tunnel simply by typing:

Code:

ssh -D7070 10.3.4.55 -l "your username"

Once this is done configure your browser exactly as in the Windows way.


Hope I've helped
Enjoy

you can also use this website to bypass the megavideo limit. MegaStreaming - MEGAVIDEO Unlimited Web Streaming

nik ad Rizla, just so you know you should rep and/or thanks someone rather than [posting a comment saying thanks. Mods may warn or even infract you if its a repeated incident.

Originally Posted by panamangix

you can also use this website to bypass the megavideo limit. MegaStreaming - MEGAVIDEO Unlimited Web Streaming

Thanks mate, added
+rep

Sam

Hey Sam91,

I always hit the thanks button when I liked a post, but thanking you for thanking me seemed kind of redundant.


EDIT: Actually we are talking about an infinite loop here. You thank me for helping out, I then thank you for thanking me, then you thank me for thanking you for thanking me... :)
Regards
nik