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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta content="Philip Tagg" name="author" /> <title>Audiovisual Instructions</title> <meta content="author" name="Philip Tagg"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> <STYLE type="text/css"> a {text-decoration: none} P {font-family: "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; font-size=12} .style3 { font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: #FFFF00; } .style9 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; } body,td,th { color: #999999; } body { background-color: #281B5F; } a:link { color: #FFFFFF; } a:visited { color: #FFFFFF; } .style15 {font-family: Tahoma} .style17 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #D7D7D7; } .style19 {color: #FFFF00} .style20 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif} .style21 {color: #D7D7D7; } </STYLE> </head> <body alink="#FF6666"> <p><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><span class="style3">Philip Tagg’s </span></font><span class="style19"><font size="5" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><b> <br> Video playback & download help</b></font></span></p> <p align="left" class="style19 style15"><font color="#FFFFCC">— FILE-TYPE ICONS</font></p> <blockquote class="style15"> <p align="left" class="style19 style15"> <img src="pix/Icons/16-Phi1.png" alt="Φ" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle"> stored on this site, mostly in *.webm format<br> <img src="pix/Icons/16-FivePink.jpg" alt="HTML5" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle"> HTML5-embedded file (fewer buffering issues) stored on this site <br> <img src="pix/Icons/16-Vimeo1.png" alt="Vimeo" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle"> stored as a file on <b>Vimeo</b>. I no longer use YouTube (<a href="#YouTube">why not?</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p class="style15"><font color="#FFFFCC">— BUFFERING ISSUES</font> </p> <p align="left" class="style17">Buffering hiccups occur when download speeds can’t keep up with playback. If you encounter such problems, try one or more of the following workarounds:</p> <ol class="style21"> <li class="style20">Pause the video, let it download a bit more into the buffer, then press Play again. </li> <li class="style20">Clear your web browser’s cache and try again. </li> <li class="style20">Close down other apps and try again. </li> <li class="style20"><font align="left">Quit your internet browser, re-open it and try again.</font></li> <li class="style20"><font align="left"> Use another internet browser.</font></li> <li class="style20"><font align="left">(Radical and reliable) — Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) the relevant video link and select "<i><b>Save link as</b></i>..." This will download the entire video file to your device. If no ‘Download’ or ‘Save as’ option is available, use a browser add-on like <a href="https://www.downloadhelper.net/" title="This is the video downloader add-on I use with Firefox. There are several others..." target="_blank">Video Downloadhelper</a>. Wait for the video to download, then play it without hiccups directly on your device. This solution may be a bit time-consuming but it's less frustrating than workarounds 1-5. It's also cheaper than option 7. </font></li> <li class="style20"><font align="left">Get a faster internet connection.</font></li> </ol> <p class="style21"><span class="style9"><a name="YouTube"></a></span><span class="style20">— NO TO YOUTUBE </span></p> <p class="style17"> To hell with YouTube’s (Google’s) mindless, robotic, erratic, anti-democratic, unilateral imposition of copyright policies contravening both the US Federal Code (<i>Copyright Law of the United States</i>, 2011: §107, §118) and legal precedents of the ‘transformative factor’.</p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p class="style17"> </p> <p align="left" class="style9"> </p> </body> </html>