I haven’t had much time on the computer over the last couple of days because The Artist has needed it for Gallery work. Also the weather has been so changeable that I haven’t been able to get out and take any photos either. It’s midsummer and it feels more like March!
So I copied the .avi tutorials onto a DVD and booted up my laptop, intending to work downstairs, but I found that I had sound and no video – just like I had done when I first tried to run them on the Office desktop. That was a severe disappointment because there’s only one phone line and only one broadband modem – both attached to the Office desktop where The Artist was working. So I couldn’t even go to the T189 website, follow the link to download the codec that made the video work properly and resolve the problem.
Never mind, I thought, son is away and his computer is even MORE powerful that the Office desktop so I headed into his room, booted his computer … and got exactly the same result. Now all three of these computers are running Windows XP Home SP2 and are updated to WMP 11 so I’m at a loss as to why they won’t run the .avi videos without downloading the extra codec. I tried Realplayer … no luck … the DVD players … still no luck … this was getting very frustrating…
In the end, the only way I could watch the Week 8 tutorials (yes, folks, I am behind with the course) was to get the original DVD supplied for T189 and try that on son’s computer. Fortunately, given the ‘oomph’ that his computer packs (he plays a lot of computer games) it made short work of the tutorials and I got to watch the first four all the way through without any glitches, out-of-synch problems or crashes.
But this only goes to show that the new video tutorials haven’t completely cracked the problems that some students experienced when trying to watch them.
Don’t worry aquamarina you aren’t the only one lagging behind!!
I haven’t even started week 8 yet!
Wanda
Comment by Wanda Stockdale — June 28, 2007 @ 9:15 am |