It looks like the problem is on the server side. Can you confirm that these specific videos can be viewed in Quicktime?
John On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I am trying to listen to some Abel Prize math lectures > > the urls are located on these pages > > http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2004/index.html > > I cannot listen to the lectures by atiyah, bismut singer or witten > > or > > > http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2007/index.html > > or > > http://www.abelprisen.no/en/multimedia/2005/index.html# > > on the pages it says > > All videos are MPEG4 (mp4) viewable by means of the free QuickTime (v.6.5) > application. > Most videos are available in three qualities: double ISDN (112kbs), ADSL1 > (384kbs) og ADSL2 (768kbs). > > note the more recent lectures such as 2011 are available and fully watchable > on the web page. > > I have vlc installed but when i click on the lecture i get a black box in the > left upper quadrant of the screen and no video. > when i right click and say show controls then it > shows the controls and says idle > but does not give me a forward button to play it. > > thanks > > Mitchell Laks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111028135732.gb3...@earthlink.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111028142618.GA6784@infotech