Will Knott

The video conference between the three Open Coffee sessions went sort of well. There were a lot of sound problems. Which makes sense. If you have a crowd, you have speakers. To talk, you need microphones. However a microphone picking up the output of a speaker causes a problem. At best, echoes. At worst feedback. And the session was dogged with echoes. After the main session, those of us that remained in the session had a nice discussion about the ASUS EeePc and installing a touch screen on it. John assured that he would blog every step, I’ll link to it when I get the details.

Image by geognerd via Flickr

Still getting the video to work was something of a surprise for me. You see I upgraded to Adobe Flash 9 (latest version). I’m on Firefox 2 (latest version) for Windows XP. And they don’t like each other. Things work well for a while, but fairly quickly flash video just stops working. I suspect that one is tearing a memory leak out of the other, but I can’t tell which. I do know that I’m not the only one seeing this problem. This might explain why it’s being opened up.

All I know is that it takes a reboot (and an upgrade of Real Player for some reason) to get videos on YouTube, reviews by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw and (flash) embedded audio files to play. So I’m throwing in the music videos I’ve come across (I miss the days when I could say stumbled upon and not have people assume I’m talking about a certain site).

First up is the slightly surreal (in a Coca-Cola advert sense) music video (which has embedding disabled) for “Love Song” by Sara Bareilles.

And the completely loopy (in an old folks community visit to Silent Hill way) video for “I’m Good, I’m Gone” by Lykke Li.

take care,
Will Knott

Tags: Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash 9, Firefox 2, Flash Video, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows XP

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