From: Terry Reedy on 16 Mar 2010 16:04 On 3/16/2010 7:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:39:46 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> I found this PyCon2010 presentation to be excellent: The Mighty >> Dictionary, Branden Craig Rhodes, 30 min. Sorry, http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3332763/ which plays fine in FF3.6 on windows >> http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3264041/ wrong file number > Unfortunately, that clip seems to be unwatchable, at least for me. It > crashed the Netscape plugin in Konqueror, and crashed Firefox. The flash version does not work for me. This is true of about 1/3 of the Pycon 2010 videos that I have tried. The .ogv version of this and all others that I have tried (hit Download under Comments) plays fine within FF3.6 on my windows xp machine. Perhaps there is a linux-specific bug, if that is what you are running under. Terry Jan Reedy
From: Steven D'Aprano on 18 Mar 2010 01:52
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:04:22 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 3/16/2010 7:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:39:46 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >> >>> I found this PyCon2010 presentation to be excellent: The Mighty >>> Dictionary, Branden Craig Rhodes, 30 min. > > Sorry, > http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3332763/ > > which plays fine in FF3.6 on windows > > >>> http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3264041/ > > wrong file number > >> Unfortunately, that clip seems to be unwatchable, at least for me. It >> crashed the Netscape plugin in Konqueror, and crashed Firefox. > > The flash version does not work for me. This is true of about 1/3 of the > Pycon 2010 videos that I have tried. The .ogv version of this and all > others that I have tried (hit Download under Comments) plays fine within > FF3.6 on my windows xp machine. Perhaps there is a linux-specific bug, > if that is what you are running under. Amusingly, the FLV files play perfectly for me under Linux, while the OGV files don't :) Thanks for the links, the videos are very interesting. -- Steven |