Problems with the streaming videos
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Flash Player on Windows
You'll need to have the Adobe Flash Player (v7+) installed to play our videos, this is the same Flash as used by YouTube.com. If you can watch YouTube's videos, you should be able to see ours. To download Flash, see this Adobe Flash Player page.
For stand-alone playback see the excellent open-source Video Lan Client: http://www.videolan.org/
The videos just Don't Work?!
We've changed from Quicktime 6 downloadable MOV files to these streaming Flash files in the hope that everyone, everywhere can watch our videos. If you have problems, please send me a mail (ian@showmedo.com) and I shall try to help you.
No sound in Firefox on Linux
Q: (from anonymous user) What to do?
A: (from founderIan) I don't know, sound on my Ubuntu box works fine. First of all you'll need to establish whether sound works on your installation - try playing a movie and visiting YouTube to watch a video (we use the same format as they do). If you don't get sound, I guess you need to visit the support forums for your Linux distribution. Can anyone else give further help?
A: (from luchhh) Try installing the last version (9.0 by the moment) of flash for linux[1]. Just untar the file and put libflashplayer.so in ~.mozilla/plugins/, replacing the one is already there. Restart firefox and that's it, now you should be able to hear the videos without any problems.
Saving the .FLV file for local playback
To download the videos just click the 'DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO(FLV)' link (it is below the video, next to the Tags). For Linux, Windows and Mac the excellent Video Lan Client plays the FLV files just like an AVI or MOV video. One Windows you can also use the Riva FLV Player.
Why don't we offer other movie formats, e.g. OGG, MOV, AVI?
Simply - we don't have time.
FLV seems to be a dominant format, and nothing will dislodge it for a while, so we're happy to adopt FLV as our standard. It can be played on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD), though it is harder to view the videos in a web browser on some OSs (see my notes above on downloading the videos locally).
Whilst we don't plan to offer alternative formats, if there is a strong demand then we'd consider it (drop me a mail if you have strong feelings on this subject).
