Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Blouch
So there are two different kinds of video on the web - streaming and progressive download. Streaming means the data generating the AV on your machine is coming down in real-time from the web, is decoded, display/played and then goes poof for every second. Some commercial stuff likes this becaus

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Yes, but one can not push their disk space to the limit. Generally UNIX type systems which a Macintosh is underneath, require about 10% of a disk to be not allocated to files. Also, one needs to consider the swap space being used. If this is a fairly new Macintosh it probably has at least 128

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-03 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Ricardo, I was just concerned about taking up too much space when it comes to playing youtube videos online. I have had in the past a Windows XP computer that I stored a lot of music files on the hard drive I should point out that they were WMA or some kid of windows media format anyway this

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-03 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, why do you think downloading a few podcasts would make your computer any slower? I mean, thats what hard drives are designed to do. Store and delete information. Maybe over many years, especially if using a SSD but, these are things rated in multiple years of use before meaningful degrad

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-03 Thread Daniel McGee
Of course, but if I keep getting apple's keynotes downloaded to my computer and even if I delete them, would my computer still get slower. To give an example, lets say I downloaded 10 videos a bit crazy I know but continuing on form there, lets say I have listened to them all and my Mac has got

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-02 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can always delete the podcast episode when you finish viewing it. HTH, Teresa "deeds can't dream what dreams can do."--e. e. cummings On Jun 2, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi Recardo and Teresa, first of all thank you for the podcast feed I > downloaded an apple keynote presen

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Recardo and Teresa, first of all thank you for the podcast feed I downloaded an apple keynote presentation and it worked with no issues at all but I only see one problem with it. That is to do with memory I checked the video file and it was well over 1. something GB which is a lot. I've got n

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, how were you connecting to the internet on your Mac and PC? were you using wifi for both? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, as I'm sure many of you are aware that Apple's WW

Re: problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-01 Thread Teresa Cochran
You could try this podcast feed: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665 Teresa "deeds can't dream what dreams can do."--e. e. cummings On Jun 1, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, as I'm sure many of you are aware that Apple's WWDC will be happening > soon w

problem when trying to play apple's keynotes on Mac

2012-06-01 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, as I'm sure many of you are aware that Apple's WWDC will be happening soon which discusses all new and up coming things in the world of apple. After the live presentation, it is available to listen to on their website however, I have incounted a problem with it. For example when listenin