Sample vBook

rkh2 · Post by **rkh2** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:16 am

Just checked out the sample again since the changes were made and must say "Thumbs Up". Both the video and audio were excellent and definitely will be ordering some once they are available. I viewed it using windows explorer with real player and have windows vista on my computer. No problems this go around.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:32 pm

rkh2 wrote:Just checked out the sample again since the changes were made and must say "Thumbs Up". Both the video and audio were excellent and definitely will be ordering some once they are available. I viewed it using windows explorer with real player and have windows vista on my computer. No problems this go around.

Hi Ron!
The first six ARE available now, individually or as a set. http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/MasterInside_4-28-08r2.pdf (page 93 of the Fathers Day Catalog)

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:46 pm

To those of you who have bee having trouble viewing the mp4 videos on the Sample VBook, know this: It isn't your computer. You don't need a newer browser, a different plug-in, or an adjustment of your security settings. The problem, apparently, is a bit of code that Microsoft released in April of this year. It changes the way Internet Explorer looks at "ActiveX" controls in general and "embedded videos" in particular. The mp4 files that are part of the virtual classroom experience are embedded in the page with commands or "tags" that IE no longer responds to in the same way that it did when I originally wrote the virtual classroom code. If you have IE7 and have allowed Microsoft to update it in the past few months under the guise of solving some "security issue," then you may not be able to see the vids. At the very least, you will have to click your way through several levels of warnings before your computer will let you see anything that isn't webcast in Windows Media.

There is a solution to this problem, and it's one that you don't have to worry about. As you can imagine, IE's code change aroused some grief at Apple and Adobe as webmasters with embedded Quicktime and Flash vids began weeping and wailing and knashing their blogs. So A&A mustered their own codeslingers and attacked. Both Apple and Adobe have published outlines of a "workaround" in javascript that solves the problem. I'm going to take the VBook sub-site down again while I write and test the new code. Keep your digits crossed.

With all good wishes,