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February 16th, 2007
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dial up connection friendly lessons
HI, I got my first guitar this past christmas and feel like I'm progressing fairly well without any personal instruction. I have stumbled across a couple beginner books that have helped and little bits and pieces from the internet.
I stummbled across this site and imediately joined... just to find out that most of the lessons require watching a video. I did manage to download a couple, but the color and saturation is rediculous, to the point where its almost imposible to see whats going on.
I am new though and have not given up on this site just yet.
Sincerely depressed over dial-up
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February 16th, 2007
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Welc  me to the forum BiggTodd!
Sorry to see you're having problems watching the instructional videos. Maybe someone might have some good advice for you, so stay tuned.
"Good Music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty" Thomas Beecham
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February 16th, 2007
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G'day BiggTodd, welcome aboard,
The colour problems sounds to me like perhaps an old codec or on your computer... Try updating the flash player plugin. That wont gain you any speed but might make the video's viewable.
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February 16th, 2007
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Zip down to your local library and log on to one of their hi speed connections. Not perfect but, better than nothing.
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February 16th, 2007
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I have a pretty stout computer mainly for video and gaming... but I will look into the flash player to see.
The videos that I downloaded almost look like there supposed to look that way?
The videos in question, over the rainbow pt1 and pt2 are rather small but still take forever on dialup.
Anyhow, thanks for the advice, maybe the next painfully long download will pay off.
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February 16th, 2007
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BiggTodd,
If you're downloading the attached file onto your computer, then you are downloading the wmv file (windows media player) and updating your flash codec won't help with that. The streamable movies are flash, the downloads are wmv files. Most of the movies are around 3MB - I wouldn't say that was too big to download even on dial-up... but if you don't want to use the movies, you can always just look at the TAB, download the mp3 file and work it out from there.
The videos shouldn't be saturated looking. Make sure you have the latest version of Windows Media Player if you are downloading the attachment.
If you're watching the embedded video, then I would recommend that you download the attachment (wmv file) instead, then you can change the size in windows media player.
Hope that helps.
Clancy
"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours". Jerome K. Jerome
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February 24th, 2007
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Newcomer
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Thanks Clancy, problem solved... I have avoided upgrading windows meda player (if it aint broke don't fix it theory)
I would also like to encourage GFB to continue to offer downloadable lessons for dialup useers that can't stream the lessons.
I am still feeling out the site but so far so good. I will be sending a donation as soon as I round up a paypal account.
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February 24th, 2007
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Glad you have it worked out.
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