Would you click for me, please?

[susandennis]

Edit: Thanks everyone!! I'm convinced that I should now go worry about something else. :)

You guys are the best!

I'm getting various test results from the links below.  If someone (with a broadband connection) has a spare minute and could click on one or two and report findings - saw the video... OR  saw a media player error... I'd really appreciate it. 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/areva.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/checkfree.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/lse.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/rayovac.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/swiss.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/teleflora.wvx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/windowsscreencast.wvx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/linuxscreencast.wvx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/windowsiicreencast.wvx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/apachecreencast.wvx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/videos/windowspowershell.wvx 

Comments

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I tried, but Motorola's network access sucks ass right now. The first one came up but I could only see a few seconds before it went back to buffering for a few minutes.

[susandennis]

Buffering is GREAT!! That means it sees the video and that's what I needed to know. Thanks!!!

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Real player came up for them all
A few had a flash of the box that usaully asks you what you want to do with this file

[susandennis]

Thank you so very much!

[thelovebug.livejournal.com]

I tried windowsscreencast, linuxscreencast and windowspowershell and they all worked a treat, althougha bit jumpy. Incidentally, I'm using Linux, not Windows.

[susandennis]

you going for extra credit, are you??? excellent! Thank you so much!!!

[geordie.livejournal.com]

All worked. First half with FireFox and second half with MSIE. My problem was wireless bandwidth, sad situation for a wireless company, but understandable considering I probably have 200 networks in range!

[howeird]

None worked for me on MSIE 7 Windows XP. WMP popped up, complained about not being able to find the server. If you're using a port other than 80, it's being zapped by my corporate firewall.

[susandennis]

That's exactly the behavior I'm getting here on my machine that never met a corporate firewall!

But, the guys' non-corpnet machines at the helpdesk can access them without a problem. It's been that kind of day.

Thanks for letting me know!

[howeird]

This is standard behavior for most corporate firewalls these days, which is why Youtube has overtaken Real Networks and Windows Media online - Youtube is basically Flash, which travels on port 80.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I'm behind an obnoxious firewall and it's working for me. MSIE 6.0 on XP SP2. Media Player 11.0. I even have to enter the proxy login info before it will show the first one.

[susandennis]

Wild... at least they seem to be working in more places than they are failing... it did remind me to ask the client if she wanted a 'contact us' button on the page :)

$0.01

[jimcarson.livejournal.com]

Well, the page I pulled up (FF 2.0.6) initially yielded nothing. As I started leaving a comment, a Winamp video player popped up and I'm watching the VMWare Workstation tutorial. Subsequent videos were snappy. In all cases I tried. I saw a video.

Comments on the videos:
On windows powersehell remove the calendar date display in the taskbar. (It currently shows the video having been shot on 2/20/2007)

Volume levels of the videos vary. The apachescreencast.wvx is almost inaudible after listening to windowspowershell.wvx

Re: $0.01

[susandennis]

Tactfully put. The quality of the offerings sucks. But, if customers can't get there, then they will never know...

long day? yes, thank you.

long day?

[(Anonymous)]

The delay in startup was (obviously) on my end; Winamp apparently had to phone home to its mothership and tell me there's a super double-plus critical upgrade that needed to be downloaded.

Re: long day?

[susandennis]

When it called I told it to clear you for all porn and anything else you wanted but to please call back now and again so I could keep tabs.

Re: long day?

[jimcarson.livejournal.com]

Thanks for looking out for me. :-)

the few i spot-checked

[henare.livejournal.com]

worked just fine. i'm using firefox 2.0.0.6 on a powerbook g4 with macosx 10.4.10 (in short, nothing a microsoft user would actually use). they come up inside a web browser using the quicktime plugin to play.

they don't start loading the video, though, until i press the play button, which means that the play catches up to the download and so it's (literally) stop-n-go. don't know whose problem this is . . .

Re: the few i spot-checked

[susandennis]

Actually, I know the answer to that one because windows gives you a similar behavior and it's a communication that the host requires. (Probably not at all necessary)...

But thanks for the Mac Check! That's very kind of you!!