Anglican Report with Bp Minns

I commented (above) too soon. The audio seemed to even out after awhile. Bishop Minns was miked just fine but during the first half Kevin's voice could be louder. The screen darkening software is pretty cool! (It does make it easier on the eyes.) I didn't realize what was happening at first but then I noted the box in the right hand corner. And the "full screen" quality is superior to what you were previously using. Way to go! :)

Maybe I'll get to see you when you come to Ft. Worth. By the way, Georgette Forney (of Anglicans for Life) will be in town the week before the Ft. Worth diocesan convention. She might be an interesting person to interview at some date especially with the petition her organization is circulating online, at conventions, and at the parish and personal level. (See http://www.anglicansforlife.org/petition2/index.as... ) If there is a Lambeth, we hope to get the message that petition bears across to the powers-that-be.

DIVX works very well in WinXP with Firefox and IE7, but not Safari.

I could not get DIVX to work at all on my iMac with either Firefox or Safari.

5 meg download via cable modem/Tbase 100 nic

Mac OS X (10.3.9) running on an old PowerPC 750 (2.2). It does not seem to get past "Transferring data from video google.com." The earlier Anglican Reports run fine in Firefox and Safari Mac OS, as well as Safari under winXP.

Interestingly, under Linux (Feisty with Firefox), the Bp Minns vdieo ran extremely well, even though no plugin or package was downloaded or installed

Haypenny,

We have the same system. Do you have FF 2.0.0.7?

Kevin

Yes FF 2.0.0.7 running. No extension was called for, or installed. Could this be the problem?

Will your new system work with Vista?

It looks great Kevin - nice improvement to the image quality. Thanks for all your good work.

I seem to be having bandwidth problems, both on the new and the google format.

Yes, goto www.speedtest.net and let me know your download and upload speeds. The big video is actually a smaller file than the google file.

Some tech feedback, Kevin:

1. The video is obviously much better (so what else would be expected from DivX?)

2. The audio is a little crisper, but the attenuation is still too much. While my desktops have no problem, my laptop has trouble producing volume loud enough to hear in some places. This is especially true if there's any background noise where my laptop is located. A headset remains the only way I can hear the entire dialog on my laptop (and is generally true of most of the videos you’ve produced). If you'd make the dialog as loud as your intro music that would be a big plus.

3. The higher density of DivX is obviously demanding on bandwidth. The frame size you posted on your web site results in 3 stops to fill my video buffer (the Google format, obviously because it is smaller, doesn't have this pause). However, this is also dependent on the NIC card in a particular computer. On my 108mb wireless-g card, the pauses occur. On my 4mb cards there isn't any pause. Perhaps scaling the density (and therefore a smaller frame size) to say, 80% of what you used here would eliminate pauses for computers using a 100mb throughput?

Just as an aesthetic observation on this particular video, the contrast was too high. Far too much very-dark vs. very-light. Turning up brightness to see the darks in the lower screen resulted in wash out in the upper screen. Don't know if that's something you can control or even want to, but I though I'd mention it.

As to the content, most excellent. Always eager to listen to +Minns and thanks for taking the opportunity to interview him.

Guess that “I’m taking October off” thing didn’t pan out like you though, huh? :)

There seems to be a bug in FireFox 2.0.0.8 that crashes FF when attempting to run DIVX. This is not able problem with version 2.0.0.7, 6, or 4

I did a fresh install of ff 2.0.0.8 and it works just fine both in WinXP and MAC.

It is working extremely well in the full screen mode 1600x1200 (20" Samsung) with both the sound and video quality being excellent. I hope you continue to use DIVX in the future.

Too bad TEC and ACC bugs can't be fixed as easily.

Thanks for your kinds help and patience.

Wonderful video quality, clear sound but too quiet. However..... The first 12 minutes took 70 minutes to download, then I had a service interruption and there did not seem to be any way to recover from that other than starting over. Seems to be a bandwidth hog.

I'm on a portable with windows xp, using a Verizon card to access the web. Reception not all that snazzy where I am right now, but with Google the download sometimes even keeps up with the playing speed. I can look forward mostly to being bandwidth-challenged (this is the only computer I have), so if this is the only player you use I will be missing stuff.

Anselmic, I think if you activate the player (first click) but do not press the play button (second click) I believe it will buffer the entire file for playback later--however, you will lose it if you close the Anglican TV window. You know what they say, "Don't touch that dial!"