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

I have tested couple of solutions and so far only two work: http://www.illimitux.net.
Basically you download addon for FireFox and it indeed removes the limits BUT: there are ads before the movie and the play frame was very choppy for me.

I have had a feeling that there is a solution but I had to look around more.  It looks like megavideo logs your ip time and because of that nothing based on clearing cache, buffering and blocking cookies will work. Except changing the actual ip.

That is the second solution that works. It is way better than illimitux and it's ad infested firefox adon.

1.You need Foxyproxy.

2. Get it from here: http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/help.html 

3. Follow video tutorials on the above page to set the addon up.

4. I tried it and it works. The trick is to find a quick proxy. I have found a couple of websites with quality proxies listed everyday and they are:

    http://www.proxy-list.net/anonymous-proxy-lists.shtml

    http://blog.qualityproxylist.com/

All the methods below did not work for me but if you wish go ahead and try:

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)


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

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

Hard way  that supposedly works with FIREFOX and IE.

1. Select movie, hit play then stop and let it buffer to the end.
2. Go to place where FireFox stores it's temporary files. To do that you have to be able to view hidden and system files. Open your My Computer then go to Tools in navigation bar, from drop down choose Folder Options, then go to View tab and in Advanced Setting sub-window enable "Show hidden files and folders" (set it to ON).
   Now you are ready to navigate to the folder where FireFox stores cache:
   C:\Documents and Settings\(YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER USER NAME HERE)\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\FireFox\Profiles\(xxxxxxxx).default\Cache
   -The (YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER USER NAME) is what you call your user in windows...
   -The (xxxxxxx) is usually random. You have to find out what your machine put there - it will be the folder with the largest amount of different folders in it. Normally there will be only one folder so it will be easy. If you have had issues with FireFox it might have created different folders there but like I mentioned, the default folder is large, not used profile folders are small.
3. I suggest once you find the folder, make a shortcut. Right click on your profile folder then pick Send To and choose Desktop(Create Shortcut)
   (you can also find where the files are by typing "about:cache?device=disk" without the quotes, into your FireFox browser)
   
   or...
   
   FireFox puts the temporary flash file in:
   C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE\Local Settings\Temp
   as a .tmp file...
   Internet explorer stores them in C:\Documents and Settings\(YOUR PERSONAL NAME HERE)\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
4. After you found the folder, find the temp file: use the date created and the size(it will usually be large), and the URL address...
   copy the file, paste into another folder, and place .FLV after the file..
   now you can watch the movie with Real-Player, VLC or whatever player you use that can play Flash....
   
   Both solutions work for me like a charm !