On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Tannis Baker wrote:
Recently, every .wmv file that I try to play (opening into Quicktime
using Flip4Mac) on my laptop (OS 10.4.8), plays very haltingly. It
seems
to want to play audio and video separately for instance. Sometimes, I
will see a still frame while hearing the audio continue and then it
will
jump audio and video. It makes it absolutely impossible to watch -
you
can't follow or even see all the pics.
What speed machine do you have? It could just be that your Mac isn't
up to the task of playing back WMV files reliably.
You can also try VLC for playback (www.videolan.org).
- An html attachment informed me that if I forwarded the mail (which
contained a riddle) the answer would pop up.
It won't happen, it is lying to you. I'm surprised you even still got
a forward that made such a claim, I thought people finally got wise
to that back in the 90's so that trick to get people to forward an
email ceased to be used.
Standard email forwarding rule of thumb applies here. Any time you
see an email that tells you for any reason to forward it to other
people, don't do it. It is junk and just a chain letter. Whatever it
tells you will happen (or not happen) if you forward it (or don't
forward it) is a lie.
And, with HTML email, be careful with that forwarding, I've seen some
now that contain the ability to forward the email directly inside the
email body. You put in a list of email addresses and click a Forward
button that is right inside the email body. DO NOT DO THIS EVER!!!!
Those kinds of setups are connected to a foreign web server and when
you put those email addresses into the body's form and click the
button, your friends will get the forward... along with all the rest
of the spam you just signed them up for. (this is just a new twist on
the web sites that have been doing this for years).
- Of course, knowing this would not happen in Emailer, I tried to just
open the second attachment which was named
001101c752e7$f7185b00$6500a8c0, with no extension. Double-clicking
opened it in to a text file - with alot of code starting with the word
gif. So I tried appending .gif and got a pencil graphic. (Which
could
not be the answer to the riddle.) Appending .wmv (which often
worksk with
these so unnamed text files) also gave me the pencil - static.
You already figured it out, it is a GIF, and it is just a picture of
a pencil. It likely was inline with the HTML text somewhere. More
than likely, it has nothing to do with the forward and is a residual
graphic from someone that forwarded it (this happens sometimes with
web email, in particular with Exchange based webmail, no idea why,
but occasionally they leave bits of the web interface's graphics
embedded in the email, usually resulting in the recipient getting a
small pencil, or envelope or similar icon).
I tried emailing myself and opening the mail in Gyaz with Show Html
Contents turned on and, oddly enough, Gyazmail won't display the
attachments in the body either. (hmmmm - what does that mean -html
attachments sent via CE stay as attachments?)
Correct, once Emailer converts it to an attachment, the HTML headers
are destroyed from the email body. Forwarding it on to an HTML
compliant mail app doesn't recreate those headers, rather Emailer
specifically sets MIME headers saying the files are attachments and
not body text.
-chris
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