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