[amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select?

[carl szentes]

Just got a new Dell laptop and it's IE 7 worked for me albiet very choppy as 
I have only dialup

Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Armour, Randy (ITS)" <Randy.Armour at nashville.gov>
To: "Iain McFadyen" <ki4hlv at gmail.com>; <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:18 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select?


> My experience was just the opposite.  Firefox 2.0 works and IE7 does not. 
> Under IE7, I get a message telling me to download Windows Media player 
> (which was already installed).  I downloaded the latest version from 
> Microsoft, and it still tells me that I need the media player.
>
> There does not seem to be any support on whooda.com, so I looked up the 
> parent company at www.vdc.com.  It is a subscription service, but NASA TV 
> is free and the viewer can be resized and moved around on the screen. 
> Under IE7, I got audio at www.vdc.com, but no video.  Just for grins, I 
> tried Firefox 2.0 and the site recognized my browser, asked to install an 
> add-on to firefox, and it worked great!  I did not try www.whooda.com 
> prior to installing the add-on.  BTW - The high definition video loop demo 
> is impressive.  You need about 3Mbps to get the HD stream.
>
> I watched ANDE, FCAL and RAFT deployment via the NASA TV Landing page. 
> Sure wish I had known about these other sites.  The resolution is much 
> better!  and... mentioning amateur satellites makes me feel better about 
> responding to an off topic post. :-)
>
> Randy - KI4LMR
>
>
>
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> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org on behalf of Iain McFadyen
> Sent: Sat 12/30/2006 12:12 AM
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: OT: How to receive Nasa Select?
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>
>
> whooda.com does not appear to work under Firefox, so I suggest you open in
> MS IE.
>
> Iain   KI4HLV
>
> On 12/29/06, Pieter Ibelings <sietetrescincoprimo at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This page seems to have the highest resolution NASA feed on the web:
>>
>> http://www.whooda.com/
>>
>> This is what I use.
>>
>> Pieter, N4IP
>>
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