Joule Thief

xee2 · July 23, 2009, 11:38:03 PM

@ jeanna

Quote from: jeanna on July 23, 2009, 10:32:50 PM
Thanks xee2,
Do they in fact play?

They do not play for me. I do not have Quicktime installed. I tried VLC but they would not play for me in it. I was able to play your first video by changing the .mov to .mp4 but that does not work for these videos.

Pirate88179 · July 23, 2009, 11:42:20 PM

Jeanna:

I have quicktime on my computer, but I keep it turned off. Every time I open a movie file that uses that, I then have to do a msconfig and go to my start-up files, and turn it back off and reboot. It is like a virus this quicktime player. If I don't turn it off again, it will start every time I turn on my computer and, several times when my computer got slow, I did a control/alt/delete and quictime player was using 82% of my computer's resources. For what, I have no idea. It was supposed to be just running in the background. I hate this player!

I know you are either on a Mac or using the free open source OP system (Umbunto? can't remember the name) but if you could use something compatible with windows movie player, it would be great. If you can't that's fine, we will all work around it.
I just HATE quicktime and will probably be deleting it soon. (If it let's me)

Bill

xee2 · July 23, 2009, 11:51:01 PM

@ Pirate88179

Quote from: Pirate88179 on July 23, 2009, 11:42:20 PM
I just HATE quicktime and will probably be deleting it soon. (If it let's me)

I agree. The Windows version tries to take over the whole computer. It is a very big nuisance.

jeanna · July 24, 2009, 12:09:02 AM

Quote from: Pirate88179 on July 23, 2009, 11:42:20 PM
Jeanna:

I have quicktime on my computer, but I keep it turned off. Every time I open a movie file that uses that, I then have to do a msconfig and go to my start-up files, and turn it back off and reboot. ... I hate this player!

I know you are either on a Mac or using the free open source OP system (Umbunto? can't remember the name) but if you could use something compatible with windows movie player, it would be great. If you can't that's fine, we will all work around it.
I just HATE quicktime and will probably be deleting it soon. (If it let's me)

Bill

Oh that is EXACTLY what happens every time I use wmv.
I have to change everything.
I end up rebooting.
This is why I was so delighted with flip for mac.
It never takes over my computer.

How funny they made it so difficult.

I will try to use the vlc, if that works. but not tonight.
Well, I guess I will have to learn how to upload to youtube.
They made it their business to be cross platform, well except for some of the open source people...

Ah yes how we make things difficult or work. this has been an interesting day.

I am sorry for any trouble I caused.

Perhaps I will delete the links since they don't work...

jeanna

Pirate88179 · July 24, 2009, 12:26:18 AM

Jeanna:

I suggest leaving your links up until you get stuff posted on youtube. As you know, this is where I post (since you always leave me nice comments) and it is easy to do. It supports a whole bunch of different formats. If you have any problems doing this, let me know and if I can help, I will.

Bill