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

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 17/07/2009 22:33:52 GMT Daylight Time,  
xde-l2g3 at myamail.com writes:

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.



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After recombining the files with a small utility called "HJSplit" I found  
the resulting avi file to open and play both sound and video in Windows 
Media  Player 10, although there is, as you say, quite a long blank run in at 
the  beginning.
 
However, I have noticed that the avi file format does seem to be  
continually evolving, in that I've quite often been informed that media player  
couldn't open a recently downloaded avi file unless I installed yet another  new 
or revised codec.
To find it playing the audio but not the video under such circumstances was 
 not unusual.
I seem to recall this happened even more frequently when I was using  Media 
Player 9 so perhaps this might be at least part of the cause of your  
problems.
 
regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR