[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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