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Also about Internet advertising...

I'm watching WatchESPN. Something is wrong with the file format. Trying
to skip around in the recording is hazardous. Like, I was watching a big
tennis match, halfway through, and when I tried to skip the commercial
it threw me to the ceremony congratulating the winner. Bummer. I've been
having the same trouble for weeks, trying to rewind to replay some
action of interest and trying to fast-forward to skip a commercial, but
that doesn't work. And now I'm wondering if Watch ESPN is employing a
beta file format that prevents skipping commercials. They could allow
replay but prohibit skipping commercials, I suppose, given the
technology. I'm not saying it's unfair, it's their media, just trying to
perceive what they are doing. I will always be able to mute the volume
during commercials, even if I have to use a physical switch on the
speaker.

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I wrote:

Before the Internet, I used to watch TV with the volume off. Learned a
lot about it. That's when I defined advertising's use of the word
"save".

On TV where advertisers know relatively little about you, the typical
advertisement sex and race scheme is light female, light male, dark
male (the dark female conspicuously missing). Or at least that's the
way it was during that time period.

Enter the Internet... I'm looking at this advertisement on Amazon
where I'm signed in. It's very unusual to see, but, in the ad there is
a slightly dark female paired with a light male. Perhaps going by my
surname, I suspect that's the beginning of advertising's new age.

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John Doe wrote:
Also about Internet advertising...

I'm watching WatchESPN. Something is wrong with the file format. Trying
to skip around in the recording is hazardous. Like, I was watching a big
tennis match, halfway through, and when I tried to skip the commercial
it threw me to the ceremony congratulating the winner. Bummer. I've been
having the same trouble for weeks, trying to rewind to replay some
action of interest and trying to fast-forward to skip a commercial, but
that doesn't work. And now I'm wondering if Watch ESPN is employing a
beta file format that prevents skipping commercials. They could allow
replay but prohibit skipping commercials, I suppose, given the
technology. I'm not saying it's unfair, it's their media, just trying to
perceive what they are doing. I will always be able to mute the volume
during commercials, even if I have to use a physical switch on the
speaker.


Are you allowed to run more than one viewer at a time ?

Can you cook up a means to "record" an entire presentation ?

Perhaps doing that, then recoding the video, will give
a format that supports skipping.

Paul

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Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:

I'm watching WatchESPN. Something is wrong with the file format.
Trying to skip around in the recording is hazardous. Like, I was
watching a big tennis match, halfway through, and when I tried to
skip the commercial it threw me to the ceremony congratulating the
winner. Bummer. I've been having the same trouble for weeks, trying
to rewind to replay some action of interest and trying to
fast-forward to skip a commercial, but that doesn't work. And now I'm
wondering if Watch ESPN is employing a beta file format that prevents
skipping commercials. They could allow replay but prohibit skipping
commercials, I suppose, given the technology. I'm not saying it's
unfair, it's their media, just trying to perceive what they are
doing. I will always be able to mute the volume during commercials,
even if I have to use a physical switch on the speaker.

Are you allowed to run more than one viewer at a time ?

Maybe, in separate browsers. But the bandwidth must support it.

Can you cook up a means to "record" an entire presentation ?

With a fast computer, it can probably be screen captured well enough.

Perhaps doing that, then recoding the video, will give a format that
supports skipping.

Yeah, if it were worth it.

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I'm watching WatchESPN. Something is wrong with the file format. Trying
to skip around in the recording is hazardous. Like, I was watching a big
tennis match, halfway through, and when I tried to skip the commercial
it threw me to the ceremony congratulating the winner. Bummer.

Can you cook up a means to "record" an entire presentation ?

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, look in to 'Replay Video
Capture' by Applian Technologies.

I use it all the time to record HBO shows and watch them later via
either VLC Media player or my media center app "SageTV".

RVC records in .MPG format so just about any player should handle it.

UI has a bit of a learning curve - but once you get the hang of how to
choose the window to be recorded and size the frame it's simple and
trouble-free. Also, if you have Windows 7 (and probably 8) and you
choose one of the "Aero" Windows Desktop themes, RVC can be run in the
background so you don't see the window it's recording.

Only gotcha I have found so far is that, even when it is in the
background, if my email app - for instance - emits a beep that beep gets
recorded along with the show that is being recorded. i.e. the audio
part is indiscriminate - just takes whatever would be coming out of your
speakers.

I give it four stars out of a possible 5.

--
Pete Cresswell

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Per G. Morgan:
(PeteCresswell) wrote:

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, look in to 'Replay Video
Capture' by Applian Technologies.


No HD capture?

That one went right over my head.

FWIW:

RVC records at the resolution/pixel dimensions of the video area in
window you point it at.

I used to obsess about getting exactly 1920x1080 or
exactly 1280x720, but now I just use approximately the same window size
each time.... looking at a recent recording, I see that it is 960x536.

Not that big a window - maybe 1/3 of my 1920x1200 screen.....

If your monitor is 1920x1080, just go full-screen with the window and
you're home free.... OTOH, if you have a monitor smaller than 1920x1080,
you are not going to get HD.

--
Pete Cresswell