Need Help watching Full Length movies from YouTube on my TV

[Vinita]

For Christmas, I got a brand new TV that is now connected to my computer via a brand new BlueRay Disc Player. 

Kids and I have been enjoying watching movies on YouTube on the big TV screen. 

The problem I am running into is that the full length movies don't seem to want to play.

If the movie is broken up into 10 min. segments, I add them to a playlist and then play that playlist.  The computer-BlueRay-TV connection seems to handle that just fine. 

However, the problem arises when I try to load the movies that are on YouTube in one 3-hour long segment.  The BlueRay Disc Player seems to get overloaded because it dumps the internet connection and goes back to the BlueRay screen, or it just freezes on the YouTube screen.

I have looked online for a solution but I haven't found anything useful yet.

Any help is much appreciated.   

[Dil Bert]

You might check the Blu-ray player's manufacturer's website to see if there is a firmware update.  There might also be some setting on the Blu-ray player to change how it handles video from over the network.

If you have the disk space, you could try using the DownloadHelper plugin in Firefox to download the video from YouTube and then play it back in VLC.  You might need to edit the resulting .flv file to cut it into manageable chunks.

Is there a way to connect your computer directly to the TV?  If your computer can be connected to an HDMI cable, there are inexpensive HDMI splitter boxes which automatically switch to the active HDMI connection, so your setup would look more like this:

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                        Computer
TV --- HDMI splitter <
                        Blu-ray player

[Vinita]

Is there a way to connect your computer directly to the TV?  If your computer can be connected to an HDMI cable,

Thanks for your suggestion, Dil Bert.  I bought a HDMI cable and attached that directly to my new laptop.  We watched Ready last night on the TV screen.