On Wed November 29 2006 1:51 am, Darlene Wallach wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:31 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote: > >>I'm very disappointed I can't play the videos on my computer. I > >>was looking forward to watching the videos to learn more about > >>Haskell. Someone who has watched some of the videos recommends > >>them highly. > > > > I think the prob is to find something that will play back HDV, which I > > assume is High Def Video... I assume. Googling finds users using > > Cinelerra from Freshrpms. I'm dnloading it and you might do the same. > > See if it will accept either the stream or the file for viewing. This is > > really troublshooting with a shotgun, but I wanted to see if I could > > make that file go for my own self! Good luck and Good Night. Ric > > Ric, > > I tried videolan-client (vlc) which I have been told worked for > this video on MS. > > I had not thought of Cinelerra. Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe > I'll have time to try it on Thursday. > > Darlene Getting Cinelerra to do what you want could be daunting. Finding a build for FC3 will be the first challenge, then, finding all the dependencies for that build - at the end of that road, I really don't see why it would play given all the travails you guys are having. I did try the .avi of the German professor starting his lecture - is this the one you're all trying to play? Pardon me as I've not been following this whole thread. On my FC6 box with the "all-codecs" package from the Hungarian mplayer site, and the mplayer packages from FreshRPM's, I had no problem playing it By the way, is this the same Darlene that was in Balata Camp? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA