Success!. I followed Paul's procedure. It seemed easiest and didn't involve downloading any more software. Thanks, Paul. And thanks to everyone else who responded. What a group of helpful folks! Richard West On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Paul Milesi, RPT wrote: > Richard: > > I’m running a Mac PB G4 and Safari. I just downloaded and checked > out the Birkett videos earlier today. > > To download the file, hold down Control and then click on the video > (download link). You’ll get a contextual menu and one of the > options will be “Download linked file to disk.” Once the file is > downloaded (by default, to your desktop), and you’ve also > downloaded Mplayer (I put its folder in my Applications folder, and > then added the MPlayer application’s icon to my dock by dragging it > there), simply drag the Birkett file over the Mplayer application > icon and the file will open and play. > > Feel free to contact me if you have questions. > > Paul > > Paul Milesi, RPT > Washington, DC > (202) 667-3136 > E-mail: paul at pmpiano.com > Website: http://www.pmpiano.com > > > From: "rwest1 at unl.edu" <rwest1 at unl.edu> > Reply-To: <caut at ptg.org> > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:42:00 -0600 > To: <caut at ptg.org> > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Birkett videos online > > I have an iBook G4 so I downloaded the MPlayer software but the > pictures and the software aren't finding each other. If I click on > the picture, the default tries to run QuickTime. I copied the url > into the new MPlayer software, but that didn't work either. Do I > have to change some settings to avoid the QuickTime default? How > can I get this to work? > > Richard West > > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Mccoy, Alan wrote: > >> If you are using a Mac, it is because the videos won’t work in >> Quicktime. Get Mplayer as he suggests on the web page. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/files/MPlayer%20OS%20X/ >> MPlayerOSX2b8r5FORTIGERONLY/MplayerOSXB8r5.zip/download >> >> Alan >> >> >> >> >> >> From: David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> >> Reply-To: David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>, CAUTlist >> <caut at ptg.org> >> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:34:22 -0800 >> To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Birkett videos online >> >> For some reason I can't see the videos? >> >> David Ilvedson, RPT >> Pacifica, CA 94044 >> >> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- >> From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com >> To: caut at ptg.org >> Received: 2/11/2010 8:33:52 AM >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Birkett videos online >> >> >> >> >> >In a message dated 2/11/2010 3:26:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, >> >McNeilTom at aol.com writes: >> >> >I would expect that the unison is quite well in tune, but that >> the three >> >strings are energized slightly differently (hammer mating?) and/ >> or that >> >complex acoustic coupling at the bridge is causing the motions >> of the strings >> >to change over time. >> >Sounds like the usual suspects. It's that dadgum complex acoustical >> >coupling that gets me. Probably a piano manufactured by Kamasutra. >> > >> >P >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100212/19c74604/attachment-0001.htm>
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