[SEL] Happy New Year to all (belatedly)

[Jerry Evans]

At 07:00 PM 02/01/2008, you wrote:
>Message: 9
>Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:44:55 -0600
>From: "Elden DuRand" <edurand at mchsi.com>
>Subject: Re: [SEL] Happy Ne Year to all (belatedly)
>
>Jerry:
>I couldn't get the movies to load.  All I got was an error message (not 
>uncommon on Windoze machines).
>Has anyone else had the problem with these files?
>Take care - Elden
>http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand

Hi Elden and others,

         **********I Know that there are a few guys on the list who swear 
that Maytags don't run but now you're saying that even a video of a Maytag 
won't run - This is ridiculous !!!!! :-) <Just a joke>***********

         I've had a few replies to this of guys having problems but 
strangely some say that the .mpg of the Wolseley won't play and others say 
that the "Windoze Media" file of the Maytag will not run. Others have been 
able to play both or neither so it must have to do with the configuration 
of individual computers. They run on all 3 of my machines on Windoze 98, 
Windoze 2000 and XP.

         This is the first time I've posted video to the net but think that 
it may be to do with upgraded codecs that Windows Media player needs to 
download. (Of course I do not expect guys to do this for silly little 
videos posted by idiots (me, in this case)- working on engines is far more 
important). So I'll experiment a bit to find the best format that will 
work  on anyone's machine.

         One thing that does come to mind is that this was not saved as 
"streaming video". Did you download it to your disk and try to play it from 
there?

         If anyone has more experience of putting small video files on 
their sites please give me some tips (Lets keep it "Off List" and not 
clutter up the list).

         Here are how I made the 2 videos - if anyone can point me in the 
right direction I would appreciate it. Both were filmed with my Fuji 
Finepix digital camera and saved as .avi files.

         1)The Maytag file <maytag1.wmv> was edited and produced on Windows 
Movie Maker ver. 2.1.4026.0 standard with my version of Windoze XP 5.1.2600 
Service Pack 2.
         "Properties" Tells me that the Audio Codec is "Windows Media Audio 9
         and the Video Codec is "Windows Media Video 9"

         2) The Wolseley file <wolseley.mpg> was edited produced using 
Pinnacle Studio ver. 7.07.1.  on another computer running Windoze 98 Second 
edition using the mpeg codec. I have had this programme for a good few 
years as it's what I use to edit video from my Sony Digital Video camera so 
the codecs are probably older and more compatible on older machines.

         Thanks in advance for any help and apologies to those who battled 
with the existing files.

Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
Etched Brass Engine Plates made to order:
www.oldengine.org/members/evans/plates/index.htm



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