Comments on: Astronomy lectures online

By: MartinR

MartinR — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:24:58 +0000

I’m using a new laptop with Vista so new protocols should work, but had problems. I tried the suggestion of pasting the url into QT and that worked EXCEPT the lecture is there but annoying guitar music overlays it and it’s tough to listen to. If anyone has ideas on getting rid of the music, I’m all ears. Maybe I’ll try VLC.
Carolyn, more power to you for more formats, and make the video/audio in downloadable form. This material is tremendously useful both for personal study and for teaching.
MR

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:29:16 +0000

Uh, methinks realplayer and real format sucks hard.

Is there a podcast? Or is this strictly a download?

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By: Will. M

Will. M — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:17:49 +0000

Downloaded to Realplayer – v10.1.0 for Mac; no problems at all (except the first lecture in the 27. list cut off the intro which had the speaker’s name).
W.M.

By: Zachary Kessin

Zachary Kessin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:34:54 +0000

I will second Prof Pogge’s Astronomy 161 and 162 lectures, they are really wonderful.

By: bigjohn

bigjohn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:17 +0000

VLC media player plays these rtsp files just fine. It also plays a lot of other stuff as well. It’s free at http://www.videolan.org

By: SLC

SLC — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:32:25 +0000

RTSP (stands for Real Transport Streaming Protocol) is designed for streaming Real Media videos (i.e. extension rm, rv, rs, rmvb), not MP4 videos. I was unable to download them from the RTSP address with download managers designed for this purpose (e.g. streambox and Nettransport). However, they can be watched as streams by copying the RTSP address and pasting into the box provided upon using FILE/OPEN into any of the players Real Media, Quicktime, or VLC. They will then stream into the player and can be watched in real time.