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

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Fri 28 Oct 2011 at 09:57:32 -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

This is what I did to view the low resolution version of A Short History
of Large Deviations.

Clicked on 'low resolution'. The popup has a URL at the top. Got the bit
after url= and then

vlc "http://lillestroem.uio.no/vitenskapsakademiet/abelprisen07/varadhan_320.mp4";