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Why do some videos on youtube have incompatible files?

Classic movies to download show an error message saying that there is an incompatible file.

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Most of the files downloaded from YouTube are having extension
.flv, .fla etc which can't be played in PC without using codecs. But you can download the videos in mp4 format by using www.clipconverter.cc website. It works perfectly.

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