[time-nuts] OT - Feynman lecture series on Physics hosted by Microsoft

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 21:44:38 UTC 2009


Are you sure it uses Silverlight?  I had no problem viewing the videos with
FireFox (under XP Pro).   Then again, maybe they have a Silverlight plugin
for FireFox that I didn't realize I was running.

-Bob

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mike Monett <xde-l2g3 at myamail.com> wrote:

>   > Hi Mike:
>
>  > Yes, I  installed Silverlight. I haven't tried the saving  for off
>  > line, but  plan to because the .avi files (after renaming)  do not
>  > play.
>
>  >Have Fun,
>
>  >Brooke Clarke
>  >http://www.prc68.com
>
>   That's odd.  Recall  there  is  about a  minute  of  silence  at the
>  beginning of the tape. This makes you think it is blank.
>
>  Windows Media  Player  9  grabs the file when  you  click  on  it in
>  Explorer, but  it  only  gives the sound and no  image  on  my Win98
>  machine. I have to load the avi file manually into VLC.
>
>  Do you have VideoLan? It's at http://www.videolan.org/
>
>  VLC is free, cross-platform, and shows the video much  smoother than
>  other multimedia players I have tried (MPlayer, FLVPlayer,  etc.) If
>  you don't have it already, give it a try.
>
>  But that still doesn't help with the rest of the Messenger lectures.
>
>  I think  there's no choice but to install Silverlight. I  don't want
>  it on my main machine since MS is such a huge target for malware, so
>  I'll put  it  on a clone in VBox or VMware later  when  I  have some
>  time.
>
>  Mike
>
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