Help me test something online

Poststructural Pub
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If you have time and bandwidth, would a few of you mind testing this for me?

At this link:

http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/cms/On-Line+Training+for+Staff/9412.html

Is a video training I did. If you click on the “From Home” links, it will load two fairly large .avi files (40 mb or so, I think.) Can you just let me know if the video loads and plays and what OS and browser you’re using.

NO NEED TO WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEOS. SAVE YOURSELF! If the video starts and you can see it and hear the audio, that’s all I need to know.

Thanks for your help!

Dale

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Using XP and Firefox when I click on the first Home link it asks me if I want to open or save the file. Clicking open starts a download.

Using IE, clicking on the first link automatically opens the file in Windows Media Player, where I get the audio but no video.

I think I haven’t got the right software to view .avi files. They’ve been problematic for me in the past.

3

I was able to open both using WinXP and Firefox. I was able to hear the audio and see the slides change in WMV.

If you’re having problems with Firefox, it may be a matter of your set-up with the Apple Quicktime and RealAudio plug-ins. These two both try to disable each other, as well as Windows Media Viewer, at Installation time, as they each try to take over all media resouces on your PC. I have found it best to install these as NOT the default player. Leave them to view their respective proprietary formats only and leave everything else at the Windows default values.

djm

4

Using XP and Firefox and XP and Google Chrome, it attempts to download the files.

Using XP and IE, it’ll pop open a Windows Media Player instance. I got audio, no video. (I seem to be echoing avanutria…)

5

What codec did you use to encode the video on this AVI? I’m honestly shocked that I’m not getting it on my system. I’ve got some pretty extensive codec packs installed.

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I can’t see the video in WMP, either. I took the link and streamed
it through mplayer (which has all the codecs ever) and it showed
audio and video just fine. mplayer claims that the video codec is
the “TechSmith Camtasia Screen Codec” (TSSC).

EDIT: Once I downloaded the TSSC codec from here:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp
WMP showed the video, too.

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IE7 and couldn’t get a thing, although it said it was downloading. I suspect that for me it’s a Domain issue, and AL/US is not prepared to squirt a file all the way to the UK. Or that my servers aren’t prepared to wait for one from that distance.

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Ditto for me the TSSC codec let me see video in WMP.

Visa 64 O/S and Opera as the browser.

David

9

On the “From Home” links, Part I and Part II, loud and clear, no problem! I got it by “Quicktime”, the big “Q”.

I’m using Mac OS X, Safari browser.

:slight_smile:

10

Thanks for your help! I think we’ve established that the program that generated those .avi files, Camtasia, yields files that require, as some have noted above, a special video codec.

Thanks again!