Re: How to listen to abel prize lectures of 2007 in iceweasel. lectures are in mp4 format but are not opening even with vlc installed
It looks like the problem is on the server side. Can you confirm that
these specific videos can be viewed in Quicktime?
John
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I am trying to listen to some Abel Prize math lectures
>
> the urls are located on these pages
>
> http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2004/index.html
>
> I cannot listen to the lectures by atiyah, bismut singer or witten
>
> or
>
>
> http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2007/index.html
>
> or
>
> http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2005/index.html#
>
> on the pages it says
>
> All videos are MPEG4 (mp4) viewable by means of the free QuickTime (v.6.5) application.
> Most videos are available in three qualities: double ISDN (112kbs), ADSL1 (384kbs) og ADSL2 (768kbs).
>
> note the more recent lectures such as 2011 are available and fully watchable on the web page.
>
> I have vlc installed but when i click on the lecture i get a black box in the left upper quadrant of the screen and no video.
> when i right click and say show controls then it
> shows the controls and says idle
> but does not give me a forward button to play it.
>
> thanks
>
> Mitchell Laks
>
>
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